If you do a 360 turn on
Googlemaps you will see many houses with a direct line (earshot / eyeline) to that balcony.
It's one thing for a criminal to be cool enough to quickly hide a body, and then present to the police and media for 7 years.
But it's another thing altogether for an innocent person to witness or discover an
accidental death and to not react or create a commotion, and for it to go unnoticed and unheard by neighbors? I mean, for someone to die and your mind to immediate go to "I must cover this up" rather than screaming out loud, that's quite a cool cucumber.
Things aren't lining up in my mind, is all I'm saying.
But by the same token, we believed someone was game enough to park in plain sight across the road (potentially multiple people in
two cars), and then abduct a child in broad daylight, without a hint of concern of being seen in such an obvious location. People believed that.