This is great thinking, too. Look for the phone in the area of 14th and Wertland. But then, I wonder, surely the phone would have been picked up by a passer-by, because would not that area be inundated with students?
Wonder also, if LE does not have the phone, if they have considered offering a reward for its return? Perhaps they'd get it back if they did that. That is, if JM didn't destroy it or throw it into the lake at WCP.
Also, no telling what else they'd find if they put divers into the lake at WCP.
Changing the subject, I wonder if anyone has an opinion on why JM would choose to leave the two deceased victims we know about in the woods right at the time when hunting season is just about to begin or has already begun? My H is a bow hunter (whitetail deer) and tells me that bow season began on Oct 4 this year.
If JM was an outdoorsman, even if he didn't hunt himself, he'd be aware of the approximate times that hunting season was to start. Seems counterintuitive to leave murdered women outdoors at that time if you don't want them found right away. They could have hung out for two weeks ( which I doubt.. but she wanted to go somewhere)
I live a couple hours south of C'ville, in a rural area not unlike the area where Hannah was found. In back of the property I live on, there are hundreds of acres of forest, mostly uninhabited, but during hunting season there are people and dogs all through there. It is especially busy after gun season starts; I guess that's also when the dogs come into play.
Now that I think of all that, I can't imagine why someone's hunting dogs didn't find Morgan.