Ok...long day at the beach, then dinner, then son's t-ball....I am wa-a-a-a-a-y behind in this thread (pg 30 of the last thread), but....
After t-ball we went to Meyer's Lake, and I took some pics. Much of the lake is taped off, but I took pics of the playground, the shelter, the crowd watching the lake drain, the location where the docks were and the docks stacked up in the parking lot, the trail leading off around the lake, across the lake where a pump was working to help drain the lake, etc. Then we went over to that lift/pump house.
I got pics of the "grassy area" mentioned on Nancy Grace (which I'm now watching for the first time - ever), the wooded area, the lift/pump house and its driveway, the view towards the trail from the lift/pump house, a pic of some clear tire tracks leading back towards the lake, and the cleared path mentioned previously. I walked back along that path and took pics of where it led. I also got pics of where the trail crosses Arbutus (just down from the lift/pump house), as well as where it crosses Gilbert one block from the police station while adjacent to a skatepark.
Those tire tracks were odd. At first I assumed it was some LE or search vehicle, because I know that area had been scoured. But then I got pics of the "grassy parking area" and there is good access to the trail there, as well as the fact that vehicles were easily accessing the back of the lake by using the trail, so why would any vehicle feel the need to completely bushwhack its way thru that underbrush there?
I got home, double-checked my pics. It was still strange. Too wide to be a Gator, and likely only used one time - not beaten down, just looked like brushy undergrowth that had been recently driven thru. So, eventually, I called the tip-line again. Answered first time this time, took my info, sounded genuinely interested, got my name, number, etc.
Also, we got pics of Lederman's with the last-known sighting area and the Collins home in the background. Also got pics of the trail where it leads away from Lafayette and heads down towards the school, the skatepark, and eventually the lake.
I'll work on getting them posted here if it would help ppl visualize the area better. But first, it's bedtime for my son, and I got a few minutes of SuperDad-ing left to do.
I'd hate to think I was the first to spot those tire tracks, or that they weren't made by searchers/LE, but also I hope that sheds some light and helps get these girls home.