I feel strongly that if this is as far as the cell phone made it...then (IMO) MP is not too far away either.
Just some thoughts and a couple questions regarding the phone.. I still am having a hard time believng that LE found it on a routine search.. So do we know or have we heard anything about this area being searched?(I know there have been several areas searched.. Was this area one of them?).. Tho, I must say I am having an easier time believing it due to where it's location was.. Literally within the area of the last ping.. So dependant on just how accurate of an area the pings can be triangulated I would have to say that it's definitely possible that it was found due to a search established directly from the pings last location.. This dive team deserves huge props for their diligent searching done for this phone(recall the photo of the diver completely consumed and weighted down with green stuff looking like the swamp monster)..
At this point I am believing it could infact be from the ping established searches or from info given in the last couple days under oath.. Wouldn't it be possible for them to have gotten a dive team(just a few divers) at that location immediately and without drawing a crowd of media to covertly dive and search the area under that bridge?? That seems possible to me..
All and all I'm just thrilled that we actually have forward movement where it certainly seems as tho LE is methodically tightening the noose on the perp.. I can't tell you how refreshing it is to see the good guys winning instead of the usual bad guys seem to be getting away with murder amd literally laughing at LE and the victims family..
It's like a breath of fresh air seeing the cops "one up" the perp for once.. It renews my hope that Michelle will not be forever lost as so many already are and continue to remain lost and unfound.. Her family is in need of firm support at this time as I believe that they are sadly coming to the tragic realization that Michelle is most likely deceased.. What a tremendous hurt and pain that I cannot even imagine.. They deserve nothing but support and our continued compassion and ^above^ all else prayer for the many months ahead of them..
Also on the condition of the phone.. Upon my first glance of the phone it appeared to me as tho it had been in water..waterlogged with the large water spots that were visible along with the discoloration..it is very hard to believe that it could have possibly powered on even if professionally dried out.. Just seems almost impossible.. Therefor I question is it possible that it was dried out enough that it would accept the connecting via USB port to a computer where it's data was then still transferrable and therefor viewable thru the computer?? I don't know if that would work but for me logically that makes alot more sense and would be more likely to work than a phone being submerged for weeks just being dried out and then powering on..
As for the location what I believe likely to have happened is that it's "powering down" at 8:08pm in this exact area was the time when the phone was submerged into the lake thus essentially powering down for the last time.. I think that it was not manually powered down but rather tossed off the bridge when Jr was enroute to Walden Circle in Michelle's Hummer to abandon it.. I believe that by that point it's very likely that Michelle was already disposed of and this was Jr's tying up of the last few loose ends(disposing of cell and Hummer)..
Then again in looking at it from a bit of a different angle I believe that Dale ONLY USED HER HUMMER TO DISPOSE OF HER BODY and in looking at it in that way "if" he was smart he would dump the cell before disposing of her body.. That way the trail of pings ends at the bridge where it's tossed and he carries on to the destination to dispose of body and then lastly abandon the Hummer at Walden Circle and either walk back to dads or had someone pick him up to get back to dads where the twins were.. Thus IMO all 3 articles being searched for.. The phone, the keys, and her body are all going to be located at 3 seperate locations..
The phone tossed to end the ping trail, he continues to the next location where he disposes of her body, to which he then proceeds to his final destination Walden Circle where he abandoned the Hummer.. It is only at that time that he can finally dispose of the last article, the keys.. My guess is that they are definitely gonna be between Walden Circle and Rose Blvd.. But as far as the most important, Michelle's body my guess is he's not gonna have veered to far out of comfort zone..she isn't gonna be too far from his or daddy's home either is my guess.. And she will be found.. I believe that wholeheartedly!!
Just some thoughts and questions about the phone and what all it could mean.. Jmo, tho!!