First to answer a question: Nope, no one up here actually "heard" the plane crash at Gunsite Training Center, and most of us are just a stones throw from where it is. They were doing a lot of RPG and Auto-weapon training that day, so one noise shaking the windows is usually no different than any of the others. The sheriffs and EMT/First responders only use lights and sirens on the paved roads and there is over 3 miles of cattle track between the last of the paved road and the facility itself.
We were, and still are, hearing the "crack" type noises that get a lot of air play on the news for Sedona. It's the rock plates shifting (we are on a fault line) and if you know what a 500 gallon propane tank sounds like when it explodes, that's the kind of noise we've been hearing. Very similar to the noise of an RPG.
And...if there ws any type of fire, Gunsite got it out pretty fast. We're used to the random downed plane here from time to time. We're in a "free fly zone", pilots don't have any flight plans to record and there are several private airstrips in the area. In the last 2 months, the FAA has been allowing commercial airliners to circle the valley, albeit, at high alttitude, when there is a back up of planes circling Sky Harbor.
So.......enough of that!
Read the autopsy report: Quite frankly, it looks like the head and hands were found separate and redacted (individual pages entirely removed) from the report, ie, any mention of their condition etc, was not supplied to the press, but one sentence mentions were definitely blacked out. Notice it was mentioned the color of the nail polish on her toenails, they would be remiss if they had not mentioned polish on her fingers?
Were analysis of her head and hands in an entirely different report, which may have noted head trauma, or maybe the possibility of a specific tool used to remove the hands? A Possible cause of death that the police are keeping under wraps that only the killer would know?
The lack of animal interaction leads credence to burial. Livor mortis, or the pooling of blood after death to the lowest regions of the body would explain the state of her left side being in a different state than the other. More moisture in the lowest part of the body than the higher areas where the blood receded.
From what I could gather, it does follow the burial in a sandy, dry area, and subsequent removal by the wash being flooding, carrying the body to the surface and down stream.
IF the head and hands were removed, that would point to an unknown assailant, who was unaware that she had medical records of a surgery that would help identify her. There is a note about dental records in there so I am assuming the head is there.
TYLL..........:seeya: