Did LE ever tape the area off where they didn't let anyone into the area and at which time they brought the dogs back in that the general public may not be aware of? I still believe those bikes were staged.
I'm still not certain what kind of scent trail or evidence could have been compromised since the family was allowed in what is very likely the area of abduction literally within HOURS of the girls bikes being found. Which was PRIOR to the dogs going in there and doing their scent work.
Condensed version:
BROUSSEAU: OK. So then we watched the investigators put the crime scene tape up.
They were down there for a very long time. I would say approximately three hours, maybe more, you know, doing their investigation.
And we went back around to the southeast side of the lake, where you can actually -- there is an old, like, sewer building. There`s an old garage that sits on this chunk of land that you can actually very easily go down a few blocks and access the back of the lake area from -- from that point you can.
But what I`m saying is, so I --
after the tape came down, I went back in that area and I started doing my own investigation, and looking around and seeing what I could see.
So...either Tammy is lying, or this has to be some of the sloppiest police work I've seen.
Why on God's green earth would LE let people go anywhere NEAR where the bikes were found. I don't believe for one second that the police aren't aware of Maiden Lane and put together right away that it was more than likely a concealed area where a perp could hide. For cryin' out loud Tammy knew about it...and had a scenario figured out immediately. Yet LE let them go traipsing around in there "doing their own investigation".
And it wasn't just Tammy...Dan and Dillon apparently took a quad back there as well.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1207/18/ijvm.01.html
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BROUSSEAU: As a matter of fact, you know, as we were coming down here and came to the lake to look for the girls, he didn`t even know about it. He was at home with his 16-year-old son, Dillon. And the mother, Misty, his wife, she was at work here in Evansdale, Elk Run, which is -- they`re connected. And when Misty got down here to the lake with me and my mother -- Grandma, you know, Misty called Dan immediately. Dan doesn`t have a vehicle. Dan`s mother -- he called his mother. She got off work real quick, went and grabbed Dan and Dillon and brought them down here.
And they started right in on with the rest of us as soon as we were allowed to get to the area where the bicycles were found and the crime tape was released, we were allowed to go in there and just start our own hunt. And that`s what we did. Dan got his four-wheeler and his son, and they went in and just started doing what a dad would do.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1207/18/ijvm.01.html
It certainly didn't appear that LE was concerned about that area being the location of the abduction, otherwise I would hope that they wouldn't let anyone back in that area in the hopes of not compromising a scent trail.