Don't want to derail from the IRS conversation but wanted to pass along some good news (imo anyway!) Had the opportunity to work with several fema handlers this week, and I think I found a most excellent forensic K9 to check out some of our areas of interest in Mr. Harrod's case. Also trained in taphonomic remains in the event that is the case at this point. I hope it works out, because I would love love love to see the results.
It also got me to wondering why no one- in a family of dog lovers- thought to call out a K9 to trail Mr. Harrod immediately? I mean, clearly he left on foot. At least out the door. Right? Or...?
Oriah, that is excellent news. Excellent. I am sitting here just beaming with happiness. As my (dearly loved) old boss would say "it's another star for your crown in heaven."
And yes, it does seem quite odd that none of Bob's descendants thought to ask for a K9. Of course, if I recall correctly, JuM and JeM are interested in Pugs, not exactly a breed noted for its tracking ability. It's kinda difficult for a dog that has difficulties breathing to actually do any scentwork. But still, most dog lovers tend to track dogs in the news and tracking dogs often make the news.
Yes, I'd think the natural assumption would be that Bob left on foot since his car was there. I assume his car was present when JeM arrived to do whatever repairs and it was still present when the CL arrived (if it wasn't present, I think LE would have taken notice much sooner), so that leaves Bob on foot. Even if the assumption was that Bob left in someone else's vehicle, Bob surely walked to the driveway and around his own car or out to the street.
I know my first assumption would certainly not be that Bob did not leave on his own two feet. If I thought that, I'd be screaming at the police to find my father(in-law) and I wouldn't bother calling his wife who was about 2000 miles away in the middle of the night to do so.
And if I thought Bob had not left voluntarily on his own two feet, there is no way I would let my spouse go and spend any time alone in the house. Nor would I spend any time alone in the house, knowing that Bob's house keys had disappeared with him.
It's like those gothic romances where the heroine gets a note telling her to go somewhere alone and she just does it with no apparent sense of suspicion or manifesting any instincts for self preservation. I got so fed up with those heroines that I would actually root for the bad guys, on the grounds that chlorinating the human gene pool by removing the heroine's genes could only be a good thing.
Unfortunately, those heroines did seem to have a knack for attracting spectacularly gifted men.
And perhaps that is it. JeM must realise his wife is so spectacularly gifted that she could not possibly have been in any danger alone in that house.
