That is true. I believe someone would have noticed something suspicious as well..which is why i always lean more towards the idea that he was attacked in his shop and his body is probably still on the property
Ok i can rephrase that. Someone would have noticed anyone on a bike riding in the street especially if they had to slow down for them. You are correct when you say a lot of people don't remember little details but some people get annoyed when they have to slow down for bicyclists, and i think that incident would stick out to them.The no-shoulder on the road is quite problematic. Truthfully, most people don't remember details well at all. Probably because I'm not that many years away from being 70, I don't see being 70 as necessarily being elderly, and I've seen lots of people @that age on bikes ( and walking, and jogging ) . I may well have seen someone on a bike or fast-walking last week, and wouldn't remember.
At least we know for a fact that there was at least one bike in that shopAt some point.
Well then, if she is staging, I trust she bought 2 bikes and threw one over the bridge.
I wouldnt put too much stock in that bike. Those pictures appear to be taken well after the disappearance and it could easily have been planted there..besides whose bike do we think it is? It wouldnt make sense that it belonged to MC because his bike is supposedly at the bottom of the lake...unless he jumped in and the bike returned home on its ownThe no-shoulder on the road is quite problematic. Truthfully, most people don't remember details well at all. Probably because I'm not that many years away from being 70, I don't see being 70 as necessarily being elderly, and I've seen lots of people @that age on bikes ( and walking, and jogging ) . I may well have seen someone on a bike or fast-walking last week, and wouldn't remember.
At least we know for a fact that there was at least one bike in that shop
Big possibility...and I agree...a divorce would have been a much easier and better option!
But for greed.
Perhaps he never made it home. I will just throw out a possibility or 2, probably you'll be able to poke holes but that's ok, just speculating. If he were stopped on the way home, asked or forced to get in someone's vehicle and driven to their place or a private location which is not easily seen by passersby, then they could have shot him and loaded him into a boat and thrown a tarp over his body and gone down to the boat ramp. Or the same thing might have happened at his house, a vehicle pulling up to the shop would be visible from the road but less so to neighbors. If someone (s) were waiting in the shop for him when he got home they would have the jump on him and could have been able to force him into a vehicle quickly and again take him to a location where they would put his body in the boat.
My husband fishes that lake every weekend and when RM made his statement about the speed, he said that sounds more like the speed of a boat that is trolling than of someone riding a bike. If he was taken by boat, the route the boat would have taken doesn't match the GPS info that RM gave because he said they tracked him on the route he would have taken by road... I believe either scenario you mentioned is very likely. A year ago, I was convinced he was pulled over or flagged down on the way home, harmed elsewhere and that the blood was planted...but something nags at me about that idea...the trip between w almart and his house is pretty short... I just dont think there was enough time or opportunity to do anything on the side of the road..its too risky that someone would drive by. It's a frequently travelled road. The idea that he was attacked in his shop makes the most sense to me...im still not decided on whether i think he was taken elsewhere and killed, or killed on the property and buried there ...but I'm leaning more towards him still being there or close
The lean to attached to the garage is open in the back, away from the road on the opposite side of the house away from neighbors. Anything could happen back there and no one would see a thing even in daylight. If something happened there, forced into a vehicle, he probably couldn't have been bleeding at that point or the dogs would have hit on it. But we dont know what the dogs found and what they didn't only that they found a concentrated hit at the culvert. If he were lured and jumped back there it would be easy to cover up "signs of a struggle".
We don't know anything yet about the phone tracking. I believe GPS tracking is deleted when the account is deleted and not recoverable after a few days. I believe it can even be deleted before that by someone who knows your password. But I'm not an expert. Anyway, I don't believe they have GPS and that's why they had to take the ping data maybe along with cell tower dumps to an expert to track. Also it was the first PI the family hired who did that, I think if HCSO got GPS data in the first day he was missing they wouldnt have needed a PI 8 months later to get it. With that, if there were no way to travel but by roads then the ping data could be put to a route by an expert, through town for instance, but with an alt way to travel, across the lake, when plotting ping data would be the same as putting it cross-country. Would the expert have even thought of doing that?
I agree. It isn't easy to find information on how LE uses GPS because in most of the articles people want the person found and the person is generally unable, injured or worse, to delete their GPS tracking nor would those searching for them cancel their phone while the search is active. Cancelling the account definitely deleted the GPS tracking. You or someone who can access your account can delete the tracking history and you can get it back if you act fast. And as I understand it if you had it you wouldn't need an expert to interpret it.
