The person who found her speaks - http://wtvr.com/2014/10/18/searcher...says-god-wanted-them-to-find-what-they-found/
I hope a crime writer attends the trial and writes a book about this monster. It's sad to know that JM walked among the community and nobody really suspected him. If not for the CCV nobody would know who abducted Hannah Graham.
Agree, AnnaGrace, it is HG's remains.. Investigators have to use caution until there is an official forensic identification. It would be very embarrassing to prematurely identify the remains and later find out that it was someone entirely different...
The "crime scene team" tents, described as a "Command Center" by NBC news, are the same as the "crime scene team" tents at Morgan's crime scene.
"New police Command Center location inside Walnut Creek Park in Albemarle County at the beach access" (see photo at link).
https://twitter.com/NBC29
Attached Photos: "Crime Scene Team" tents, or Command Center Scene tents, for Morgan and for Hannah.
will LE want to confirm the identity of the remains to the public ASAP or do you think they'd withhold it for awhile
I respectfully disagree. At Anchorage, the larger vehicles could not get to the forensic crime scene due to it being down the hill in a pasture and they didn't want to drive all over the probable means of access for the perpetrator. "Center" means the center for communications, logistics, food, restroom, etc. Then there will be teams going out from there to the other potential evidence areas (along the roads where he may have thrown a phone, clothes, etc.). I think we will all agree, we do not know the exact location of her body. That's my 2 cents worth. This is a BIG investigation. The do not want to contaminate any area and want to plan this out carefully... therefor they need a command center.
First post, so I hope I'm doing this correctly. If I've done it wrong, please remove.
From this AP story, vultures can strip a body down to bones in just hours. So, despite it being just 35 days since HG disappearance and the weather being more moderate, it is very likely that the remains would by that point be skeletal.
http://news.yahoo.com/texas-vulture-study-upends-forensics-142318853.html
I respectfully disagree. At Anchorage, the larger vehicles could not get to the forensic crime scene due to it being down the hill in a pasture and they didn't want to drive all over the probable means of access for the perpetrator (which was along that creek down that little valley north of where they found her) "Center" means the center for communications, logistics, food, restroom, etc. Then there will be teams going out from there to the other potential evidence areas (along the roads where he may have thrown a phone, clothes, etc.). I think we will all agree, we do not know the exact location of her body. That's my 2 cents worth. This is a BIG investigation. The do not want to contaminate any area and want to plan this out carefully... therefor they need a command center.
True!!! Phobic is a good observation. It does seem like he was overly concerned with cleanliness and comfort (his own physical).
Another thought, though - if he had another side of himself, one that "flips on" when he's in predator mode, this all may be different for him. Maybe "predator JM" doesn't care, but the moment he switches back, he needs to be clean and comfortable.
I wonder if the creek bed was "dry" when HG went missing.
I get the feeling JM doesn't bury his victims because he knows leaving them out in the open will result in faster decomposition. I can't believe its due to a cleanliness phobia.
much gratitude for the store owners who handed over camera footage. JM would be ready for his next victim if not for them. this was a community effort.
It's clear that he is stating that the remains are "believed" to have been found at that location - which corresponds to the Ammonett Branch Creek location.
"The skeletal remains of missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham are believed to have been found here, at 3193 Old Lynchburg Road discovered in a dry creek bed behind this empty house, five weeks to the day since she was last seen."
http://insidecville.com/blog/exclusive-where-hannah-was-found/
Below are a few of updated press reports:
Without that store video, he would be prowling last night, and maybe another set of remains to be found.
He wasn't on anyone's radar.
MOO.