I just made it through all the posts about an hour ago! lol I made a lot of notes and just need to put some things together, but not sure I can think straight until morning.
Sorry, I didn't take pics of the ground, and we didn't drive farther out the dirt road. I don't recall anything growing on the corner where the witness saw the cars, so I would guess it's been driven over enough to keep plants from growing. There were some tracks in the area, but nothing that stood out as unusual to my untrained eye. We didn't drive down that road so not sure of the difference in sand.
Did you zoom in on that pic of NL with the horse? She wears glasses, has blond hair, and is wearing a baseball cap. I'm totally going there too with the car shuffling...keep trying to figure out what they did with Erin if NL had her car by 10:00 am, and where they were the rest of the day. I'm dragging my family into this one and keep saying I'm going to sit everyone down with little cars and toy people to run through some scenarios! The weird thing is JC fits the witnesses description of the man FAR better than CL! (No, I'm not going there, but just find it curious how little CL seems to match the short man, short light hair description. The pictures I've seen of CL look like he's more of a stocky or burly man than the witness described.)
I've literally been thinking about the car movements all day! I'll get back to you tomorrow after I get some sleep.