I didn't either! The longer I've been a part of Websleuths, the more I see it. It's so darn normal to miss a body during searches. After awhile you'll start to giggle when people say the body was planted there after the first search.
Definitely.
First I've heard of this...
RIP.This case is trending more towards an unfortunate accident. It seems pretty obvious now that the likely fall into the open manhole and the phone turning off happened simultaneously. What is frustrating is the reports of a thorough search being conducted and the body still missed. Surely the open manhole was discovered early in the search. That would have been an OMG moment to find an open manhole so close to where the disappearance occurred. But apparently whoever checked it and however it was checked did not reveal a body inside so it was never searched again. I did see a picture of two cones in the field alerting others to this open manhole so none of the searchers would fall into it. So this open manhole was made known by somebody.
It would have been a very high risk decision or even madness for a perp to choose a location so close to the victims home which Google estimates to have been about a 30 minute walk (?). Of course, it would have been helpful if the manhole was already open, but how does the killer know this unless he had been out scouting for a good dump site. (If I remember correctly, the field is also considered private property.)
Snipped for focus by me. This is exactly what mystifies me. IIRC, media reported that the remains were found in the wet well chamber, which is the outgoing side of the lift station.
I don't know deeply how to interpet the interactive map, however , it appears there are no lines that go from that manhole that was found in the corn field people are talking about on social media. They went to the Greenwood Waste Water Recycling location after the next morning to search there too, and it's location is 10 miles northeast from The Cottages and the Pump station where the found original remains. If they went to the Greenwood station too, it seems to me his body was likely dumped somewhere in between.
They called the police because the next morning they woke and found his Uber order outside at their door, and he wasn't in his bedroom, etc.
However those are storm water drainages, not waste water which are separate.
I agree: It’s confusing. They must not have the skull, or they could have quickly used dental records to identify.
The body or body parts were decomposed too much for them to be able to determine, that is why they've sent them to the other facility in Texas which has more capability. I assume there wasn't anything like a gunshot wound that would be more visible, is what they mean.
I attribute this to the police chief just not knowing this at the time (concerning, but not surprising).Thanks for confirming they aren’t connected.
I don’t really understand how they can impact one another if they are separate…
From article below:
Corpus Christi Police Chief Mike Markle told local news outlets the body was in an advanced state of decomposition and identification will take time.
“Probably a month to six weeks depending on what they have available for forensics,” Chief Markle said, noting that a recent storm brought the body cloister to the surface.
“It’s been pretty dry lately,” he said. “And with this tropical storm, I guess we got like seven inches of rain over the whole event. And that just kind of shook up the sewage system. And wherever that body may have been, it kind of flushed it out.”
Human remains found in well near where Texas A&M student Caleb Harris went missing
Caleb Harris, a 21-year-old Texas A&M student, has been missing since March 4www.independent.co.uk
