... search dogs, or pure chance are our only shot at finding her.
... One question I have is whether or not he may have been sloppy that night, and not done a great job of covering up, and then made decisions over the course of the following week.
Agreed, completely on the dogs. Hoping for a tad better than chance. The same question nags me too, seems like something didn't go right for him that night (wishful? time will tell) It may have taken him longer. He may have reached out for help somehow, thus the person or persons who may know, whom Chief Longo mentions.
I suspect, but have no way of knowing, it may have taken more time than he may have been expecting. It's possible this suspect would go farther, method and/or distance, or not. He may have acted with poor judgement in his freaky construct, being seen with his victim. He
had the aftermath figured out. Hannah Graham is still missing.
If there is a place, he may have cased and made it ready. He may have even tested and tried it before. He may have known it had worked impeccably so far. All rape may have cost him was was being brutal and quick. He'd gotten away with that, young woman after young woman. He may have been able to do that on guarded whims, under the right circumstances. Raping may have been a stop gap for him.
His delusional SK aberrant playtime, that may have made him feel in control of everything: for that he may have required a young woman, the land around him, the water, all there just for him. He may have spent much more time in that place in his mind and in the act. That may have even become the bigger obsession. It may have become too easy just to rape, or just to kill and leave them to be found. He may have taken time and caution to savor some part of his aberrant process. Perhaps his trophies. Spread out or whole, he feel these are his. They're not. They belong to their own and all who remember and care for them.
His approach to his abductions may have been opportune up to now, striking when he could. Since Morgan Harrington was found, he may have taken lessons, found a place where he may have had no known connections. It also had to be close enough to cover his alibi. He would've wanted his roommates to say he came home at (?) time. That alibi was blown because the perp ran off, I take it. So, yeah. What happened through that week, after the video was released, he realized he had to run? He's in jail after all. Maybe the other person/s may know what went wrong or at least where he went wrong.