BBM, agreed in that the Sheriff's update seemed defensive. Living in the North State I am fairly familiar with Bosenko and frankly, I am not all that impressed by him. I think he wanted to make it clear they were doing everything they possible can to look into Sherri's whereabouts. I feel that Shasta Co has always treated missing persons cases too casually and I think it was clear from the beginning that Sherri does not lead a high-risk lifestyle as some other unsolved missing in Shasta Co did (ie. Heather Cameron and Cort Jones).
There was a case recently that I followed that the LE was giving updates almost every single day in writing or directly to the media and I really appreciated that (I cannot for the life of me think of which case it was!) Even if only to say, "there are no new leads," "or we are following up on x,y,z" I think it really helps the public to feel confident that they are working as hard as possible.
I would like to see an update from LE today, given that no family-lead searches are taking place today.
I think it would be helpful for people to cruise around the area on streetview. This is a rural neighborhood. I can totally see the phone sitting on the side of the road undisturbed for a few hours and not being run over or messed with. Old Oregon Trail is a 'busy road' given the surroundings, but probably not what many people who live in a City would consider a busy road. Here is screenshot of Google Earth Streetview of OOT at Sunrise Drive. Notice the mailboxes and schoolbus shelter - very rural! And likely very green right now given recent rains, similar to photo (Dec 2011).
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I just wish we had more info to go on. I know we have to consider the husband - has he ever actually come out and said "I never tried to call her phone"? Maybe he did and it just hasn't been explicitly stated?