This is the ONE reason I feel they didn't put her into a mine...just seems so painfully obvious to me, and LE has maps so it's just a matter of time. Also, it doesn't add up with NL's statement that they will "never find the body" either - especially since LE was already looking at mines when she said it. Either she is the stupidest person on the planet to live there for this long and not know LE will look in the mines, or that's not where the body is. (Yeah, I know, she very well may be the stupidest person on the planet!!)
I just wish they could find Erin quickly and give this family some closure.
BBM
Was it actually already out in the news that they were concentrating on the Old Mining District on July 1? I don't think that came out until much later. Maybe the Park, but I don't recall a thing about the mines until maybe a week ago.
Young, stupid, incredibly narcissistic with zippo empathy for human life. They don't understand how other people think and aren't necessarily old enough to have gotten really darn good at mirroring emotions of "normal" folks and master manipulation. That can take time.
I can't mix that taking a minute to move a car along a not-well traveled road (where they may have already been spotted by a witness earlier in the day by moving from one car to another right smack off the main road??) would be risky, but taking more than a few minutes to drive smack up to an easily accessible vertical mine and dropping a person --- living, i.e. injured and unable to call for help; or dead -- into a ready made grave.
No heavy labor in the oppressive heat. In and out real fast so you don't risk being seen.
Either they seriously care about being seen, or could care less.
Running mouth to ranch owner….I see that as NL could care less. They are above the law and smarter than it and just can't possibly fathom why anybody would really care about Erin.
RE: ranch owner. Could be that she really can't accept that people she probably saw as good, at least in the time she dealt with them at the ranch and their apparent financial support as well (sponsoring a horse generally means you are handing over money to help support them until adopted, or if they are not adoptable, as permanent resident)…and she maybe hasn't come to a place of acceptance that this may not be a joke after all. She may a victim of manipulation, who knows. But I'm not ready to crucify her just yet based on heavily edited news reports.
Back to mines. Whether from experience or some evidence we know nothing about, LE is concentrating
in part on searching mines and there was a news story (don't make me find it please!!) that they were utilizing specially trained people to help search inside these mines. Air support, boot on ground. Feets in mines as well.
So they have reason to believe that's a good strong possibility. For perps who have not spent their lives in the area and would thus know all about every nook and cranny, I believe they took easy route dumping her. OR what they may have done involved tons of somebody's rage and I can't even take myself there.
But I'd be a bit shocked if they are remotely sophisticated killers or sat down and used their crystal balls to figure out every scenario that folks like WSers do.
Dunno if my question in #5 got answered as have not backtracked yet today, but does anybody know if there are security cameras at the Joshua Tree gates? TIA