sarx
Verified Expert/Professional in SAR and K9SAR
I would be really interested to hear the thoughts or opinions of any SAR people who are WS members here on how any prior searches of the area where the child's body was finally discovered in could have been passed over by bloodhounds and searchers in the days prior to him being found?
I've heard some ideas tossed around & wonder what you think?
- body wasn't in this final location at the time of the initial searches of the property...but, moved there later?
- clothes of the victim provided by family for scent purposes were not actually the victims clothes (maybe to throw off the search dogs)?
- would the search dogs (bloodhounds) used in the search of the victims property be able to pick up a deceased person or do you need a cadaver dog specifically?
There are so many unknowns here, but I can see that I have seen more than 1 dog on more than 1 search take the freshest trail (just like they are trained to do) and not head to the body (remembering that there is no live scent trail out to the body) that was a couple hundred feet away. If these were not HRD dogs, then they didn't miss anything, simply put, it's not their job.
What is far more curious to me is what happened in terms of human search power clearing the property. Again, I don't know who or how many or what training they had, but it just reinforces to me the necessity of clearing the home with meticulous detail.