http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/crime_courts/2014/07/11/erin-corwin-jonathan-corwin/12557135/
Border control and the FBI are now assisting the investigation along with homicide investigators.
JC has permissive time-off as explained in the article.
Some other cases are racapped and then much of the same we already know.
Finally someone mentioned Sheep Hole Pass by name in a news article. That was where I was alluding in my earlier posts that they were digging (the searchers) and why the car would be where it was: If he were coming back from burying her out there, then the car was facing in the right direction (rather then having to make a U-turn if coming from JTNP.)