HayLouise
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@Thunder Street, since you’re asking for questions, the big question I keep coming back to is, why does Mr. Atadero think the sheriff was not interested in pursuing an abduction theory? If this is treading on thin ice, I understand if you don’t answer.
I apologize.The sheriff made it very clear. He literally vocalized his refusal. He told Allyn he believed Jaryd drowned, but told the media it was a mountain lion, and when confronted on camera about the Mesa Verde sightingsighting he ended his rant saying "Are you as tired of this story as we are?"
He dropped the case after the remains were found. The FBI was never alerted, which is protocol in an abduction scenario due to abduction being a federal felony. Anytime abduction was brought up he would deny it.
I apologize.I asked the question the wrong way. I agree with you and Mr. Atadero. My question is does he have any idea why the sheriff did not pursue any abduction theories?
@Thunder Street – I’m not a professional handler. K9Enzo was my husband’s retired dual purpose police K9. We lost him last year at the dignified age of 14. He’s always on my mind. No one could convince him to sit in the sun watching squirrels all day. In retirement, I kept his mind and body busy doing scent detection work for fun with him. I’m in the "working dog training world" you could say, with two dogs currently, that I do various venues with.
@K9Enzo,
Thank you. The reason I asked is that a peculiar incident happened after the official search had ended. A scent dog was taken to some sites along a different road in Poudre Canyon some distance away from the Big South. On their way back down from their search area, the dog caught a scent while searching in cadaver mode which led them to the resolution of a 17-year-old murder mystery where a teenage drifter working as a handyman at a resort was murdered and thrown into a mine shaft, which was then dynamited by the perpetrator. The reason I bring this up on Jaryd's thread is because it is an interesting comparison between the search dog teams the Sheriff brought in vs the independent searchers. It adds a lot of weight to the fact that Jaryd was likely taken off trail.
We have a potential theory we're discussing and hope to share with you soon.
This is a theoretical demonstration of the potential escape route based on where Jaryd's scent was detected along the trail.
This is one of two theories we have developed, and the only one we can share at present.
Jaryd's scent was detected first at Campsite #2. The scent hits at #3 and #4 were detected on a separate search, with no scent trail leading from #2 to #3. Some problems with this theory include the fact that there were one or more people in the parking lot of the Big South Trail and an abductor would have been seen. So where could he/she have taken Jaryd? Perhaps he took a big risk and crossed the trail to the river, the latter of which had many shallow or bare spots where one could cross, and made his way to the campsites on the other side of the Cache La Poudre River. But we don't have anything solid to indicate a direction other than the scent hits themselves.
Thank you for this information,TS. Are these campsites located right beside the trail? Also, re: point Jared was last seen, this is after he had passed these campsites? IOW, is campsite 1 the closest to the trailhead? I’m just having a bit of difficulty orienting myself to the scene, as in what direction Jared was going. Tia
I think what confused me was the point he was last seen in relation to the theoretical point of abduction. Thanks very much for the clarification, TS.Sorry for the confusion. Campsite 1 is closest to the trailhead and Jaryd's group was walking south along the trail. The campsites are to the east of the trail about 100ft or less up the mountain.
The reason I oriented the image the way I did was to have a closer view of the area.