Mica
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Yes, the significance of this announcement cannot be underestimated.
The digs are in the same area as Amaral and his team identified.
This means that after 2 years of review and a further 2 years of Operation Grange, SY have ended up in the exact same place that Amaral did.
Digging in the field which is contiguous to the area the person identified as Gerry was seen carrying a child thought to be Madeleine.
If they find a burial site so close, it tends to rule out child thieves, off shore abductors, gypsies etc. Why abduct a child only to return it to the site of the abduction?
The dogs indicate that Madeleine died in 5a. Now the entire investigation has been basically replicated by SY, they appear to also think M never left PDL alive.
So - if M laid in 5a long enough to produce cadaver, as seems likely now, it means that she couldn't have been alive when Gerry saw her on his check at 9.15.
Cadaver scent takes hours to form, not minutes.
Here is an old study done by the Canine Specialized Search Team (CSST) regarding time and cadaver scent.
Cadaver Scent Project
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TRIALS BEGUN: January 1997
NUMBER OF DOGS USED: Five different dogs
POST-MORTEM INTERVAL RANGE: From 70 minutes to 3 days
NUMBER OF TRIALS COMPLETED: As of July 1997, total of 52 trials completed
PRELIMINARY RESULTS: The shortest post-mortem interval for which we received a correct response was one hour and 25 minutes. However, the post-mortem interval for which we received a consistently correct response from all dogs involved is 2.5 - 3 hours.
http://www.csst.org/cadaver_scent.html
http://www.csst.org