@Klingon How close was he located to the house? And why didnt they search for him sooner? He was deceased for 2weeks, wouldnt there have been an odor? It has been in the high 90s until recently.
He wa around approx 150 to 200 ft from the front door of that residence. In the field under manzanita bushes.
When I first discovered where he was last seen, I spoke with the person who lives there. She said that she and her husband were not home at the time he was dropped off. A couple days later I asked her if she had searched around her house and she said that she had but she had not “gone into the wood, because it’s not safe out there due to bear and local pot growers”
That woman also she she would speak with her neighbors. After another couple days I asked again. She said she had not had contact with her neighbors and didn’t know where Ray might have gone from there.
While there are conflicting reports from members of search party that found Ray. The two woman in the search party both state they heard the resident of the home say that she had never looked at all and had asked her neighbors and one of them said “Ray said he was going to Seattle to be with his parents” and that was why she didn’t look.
Our mother passed away many years ago and our father is alive and well in Arizona.
I also spoke with the same neighbors the woman said that Ray had spoken with. They deny having seen or heard from Ray. They did however tell me Rays shoes were still on the woman’s porch when he was found.
As for the question of smell there should be no doubt. He decomposed in high heat for 15-16days. Approx 150-200 ft from not only this woman’s house but a number of other residences. There had to have been quite the smell for a number of days.
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