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Here is a nice timeline done by cGorg. Does anyone have anything to add? Or does anyone have anything to dispute? 9:00-9:15- Smokey barks, DR sees a dark blue(or black) car drive thru the farmstead 9:15- Abduction occurs 9:32- Merle's 911 call to police 9:40- Police arrive at Wetterling...

Assumptions on your part. Naming DR as a POI in no way rules out the use of a vehicle. 777

Thanks for your input. Dog scenting is valuable and the best explanation for the dogs losing Jacob's scent is he was put in or on a vehicle. This is a stretch. If you want a kid and you are clever, you pull a Jared or Paynesville type abduction. The lost dog scent supports your point...

This is mainly relevant if the helicopters arrived before DR sees the flashlights at the woodpile and calls 911, correct? It seems to me the helicopters would have to arrive on scene incredibly fast for us to ask why DR wasn't wakened by the helicopters instead of his dog and the flashlights as...

It seems to me that the cops investigating Somer's case were hiding their dog-scent techniques from the media, since this fact only recently came out, and came out through the perhaps un-approved mouth of a talkative dog handler. Back in 2012 the official story seems to be the killer became a...

This seems a viable way to meet the logistic requirements implied by the known evidence. I feel DR's education and socio-economic class, along with his occupation, indicate that IF he was ever of a mind to abduct a kid, he's going to do it in a way that does not attract the cops right to his...

************************************LAW ENFORCEMENT SAYS OTHERWISE************************************** " One of those who trained in the house before it was torched was a rescue dog named Peanut, the K-9 that tracked Somer's scent that stopped just outside Harrell's house. "He kept trying to...

Not only does Kevin's story of that night not make sense, the cops' treatment of Kevin and their decade+ long treatment of the tire track evidence does not make sense. It's widely apparent from the news stories at the time that the cops were looking for suspects based on tire tracks...

It means plenty in my view. The most likely explanation for the dogs losing the scent on the driveway, in the area of Jacob's last footprint, is obviously that Jacob was no longer walking on the driveway after this point in time. Jacob put into or on a vehicle explains this in the most...

The simplest explanation for the dogs losing Jacob's scent in the immediate area of Jacob's last footprint is that Jacob was moved to a vehicle at this point. Agree? There are definitely other explanations. The helicopters could have blown off the scent - if so it's an amazing coincidence...

I respect that anyone's point of view can be valuable, but frankly it seems fruitless to try and speculate or assume why all these figures (the cops, the Wetterlings, Joy, DR) came to the conclusion they did about certain suspects or other aspects of the case. The cops or the Wetterlings...

DR should definitely be looked at, but I think your "evidence" is cherry picking against DR while ignoring points that tend to point away from DR. Although I respect your right to accept other people's judgment automatically because of who they are or their relationship to this case, I do not...

From what I can see there are two approaches to looking at suspects. You can either outsource your thinking to someone else like the cops or Joy or whoever and repeat what they say ....OR....you can claim the ability to look at the known evidence yourself and form your own questions...

I respect your point of view but I think it contradicts the effectiveness of online sleuthing to imply we should accept some outside authority's acceptance or rejection of a suspect. If the outside authority, whether the cops, DR or whoever were always right the case would be solved by now...

Indeed. I'm not sure how much of a car historian you are or if you're old enough to have remembered this era, so apologies if I'm telling you what you already know. GM had what in the long term turned out to be a disastrous habit of using the same small number of what they called "platforms"...

Thanks, no book from me and ELOC's seems very competent. However, if the unknown subject is discovered - that would make a book. Of course it doesn't make sense that DR's house is not at least given a look-through by the cops. My explanation is that they were pretty certain from day one of...

I don't know if this is addressed to me, but I am certainly not angry. You have decided DR is guilty, which if of course fine with me, I'm sure you have your reasons, but its unclear how much of your reasons are based on assumptions. For example, it's unclear why you discount the evidence in...

Your question number 1 interrogates a huge issue: Precisely how many cars were in DR's driveway on Sunday and who was driving them? the tan Monte Carlo type vehicle DR feels certain is a big clue the abductor's car, if any Kevin's car, if his story is true the possibility DR himself drove a car...

That's great info, Tracker MANY thanks. Now, does anyone know of evidence that has been made public suggesting the dogs lost the scent at the same place Jacob's foot prints disappear? Or is there no publicly known relationship between the disappearance of the scent and footprints in terms...

Wasn't Jerry Wetterling considered a suspect early on for the same reason? Great find about the horses! It really adds value to the discussion to provide a cited source! First of all, this interview, which is posted on Joy's blog and also in transcript form Shergirl on these threads, from...