Kant, I still have a strange feeling about the dumpster hit too...I mean, three dogs hit on it...something was there or had been there, at least. I just found it odd that LE claimed to not have found anything..just strange.
I know right? Strange feeling indeed. It's disturbing for sure.
I dont know if LE found something and didnt publicize it, or if the dogs hit on only trace elements of scent - which seems to suggest that a body
had been there at one point, but had been moved.
I was curious about how soon after death that human cadaver dogs can typically (or generally or always) recognise a corpse. There's also the question of - not only how long does the person have to be deceased, but how long does that body have to be in a certain locale for the dogs to hit on it.
Iow, how long must a very recently deceased body remain in one spot for a these trained dogs to be able to detect that the corpse has been there.
Also, sorry for the graphic nature, but the other question is how do the dogs do at detecting a only a skeleton?
In a study published in 2007, there was a forensic pathologist who was then at a university in Switzerland, (University of Bern.) The dude's name is Lars Oesterhelweg, FWIW.
He and his associates did an experiment using new carpet squares with several squares having been exposed to a clothed, recently deceased corpse within three hours of death. (They used Hamburg State Police cadaver dogs by the way.)
The trained dogs completed several hundred trials over the next month. During these trials the dogs correctly hit on the contaminated squares with 98% accuracy. Interesting too that the dogs fell only to 94% when the squares in question had been in contact with the corpse
for only two minutes.
Additionally, at the University of Alabama, an anthropologist named Keith Jacobi has explored the skeleton question at a police-dog training facility where donor human remains have been buried (ranging from skeletonised to recently deceased.)
Jacobi reported that the dogs in the study were able to detect remains at all stages of decomposition. Results varied among the four dogs, but some could signal on skeletonised, very dry remains of bone, buried two feet deep in dense woods in an area of 150 feet by 300ft.
Also, fwiw, from what I understand, trained human cadaver dogs will not hit on living persons or animals (except pigs.)
(Why pigs? Not sure.)
(Is it bc pigs are used in training since human cadavers are generally not in over-abundant supply?)
Anyone know? tia
The reason I mention this about the dogs [as, imo, it relates to the thread topic of opinions on Ron's possible involvement] is that for some posters (self included) who are hinky on Ron, this information may speak to the theorized, hypothetical, alleged (fill-in-the-blank appropriate word here) timeline for Ron's movements on that day, night and the hours surrounding them. That is, as it's applicable to examining a scenario in which Haleigh, bless her heart, was the deceased victim.
So sad. *sigh*
moo