OldCop
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If I had to guess, I could think of 2 possibilities off the top of my head. We know that something brought LE to the site to start the dig. They must have had some type of probable cause to believe that some kind of evidence was buried there. Presumably they used a ground penetrating radar or X-ray to scan the concrete slab. They also probably used cadaver dogs to go over the site. They saw something at the precise spot where they cut the concrete and began to sift the dirt or the dogs hit on this spot. My two guesses:Any guesses?
The scan revealed something that they thought was the piece of evidence they were looking for 1) what they dug up was not what they thought it would be and it was not anything that was connected to SM’s disappearance, or 2) they retrieved the evidence they needed.
On the first guess it may have been a suspicious indentation or disturbance to the ground beneath the slab. Upon digging they found it was a naturally occurring pocket.
For my second guess I think that they did recover what they were looking for, but it was not a body or body parts. It may have been a SIM card from a phone, a bullet, a knife; something small, but incriminating.
They did not pull up this whole slab to search beneath it. Likewise, they did not broaden the search when they didn’t find anything at the first cut out. I believe it was @Dave F. who said above that they did search several areas around this location, but to my knowledge they did not dig and sift anywhere else but this one spot.
What are your thoughts/guesses?