The part about it being private property and not being searched physically is interesting. (again, for future cases, a good dog up on the ledge would have alerted to something down there, it's not that far)
The part about it being irrigation and not drainage is interesting as is the water not being turned on if you will until May.
I am pretty sure that if he opened the gate on Tuesday and a body slid out I would think he would have noticed that which makes me wonder if it's been there the whole time. Somewhere I thought I read that they said the body had been in/under water for an extended period of time. That would mean that it had NOT been stuffed into the empty (until the wknd) underground tube part of the system.
Perhaps the "ditch rider" wasn't looking into the ditch so carefully that he would have noticed anything or maybe the body was more submerged until the recent rains?
I also wonder what "evidence" they found along the bank? Clothes perhaps?
It doesn't sound like much water "rushes" through this thing until it's opened up for irrigation purposes. Water can absolutely remove every piece of clothing, socks, pants, underwear, you name it, all of it, but it doesn't sound like that would nec. be the case here. JMO.
It's private property, what is the security around it though? Are there fences all the way along it? How hard would it have been for someone to get in there with someone alive or dead?[/QUOTE]
I thought about this yesterday and after looking at the map, you could drive right into the parking lot of Kendall printing and walk right over to where the location was.
