It's two hours away from Stratford where he lived. I think maybe we are over assuming that MJK frequented other hog confinements all over the state.
Again, I feel like it's trying to come up with ways to fit him into the crime. Trying to come up with a reason to place him anywhere within Bremer county if we can. If he was in other confinements regularly - especially anywhere near the girls, wouldn't you think LE would have been notified by these people?
Typically hog confinements are supplied with piglets (typically from a pork producer such as Maschhoff Pork around here) and are managed to market. There really isn't a whole lot of reason for an employee of one hog confinement to go from one to the other. If ANYONE would have gone from one to the other, wouldn't it be MJK's father in law/mother in law who actually owned the operations?
So are you thinking that if he had been to other confinements in Bremer county he would "lunch" and plan an abduction at Meyer's Lake during his trip? That would mean this was a regular thing while he was planning - making it much more likely he'd have been noticed by regulars at the lake I would think...
What I am saying threecrazykids, is that 39 hog confinement barns in Central Iowa were managed by MJK's inlaws. Many; (29) were owned by others but contracted by MJK's employer who managed them. Whether any of the facilities were located in Bremer, Black Hawk, or an adjacent County should be investigated for multiple reasons, imo.
The employees would have performed the actual work/labor and would have likely had a scheduled route. Most hog confinement facilities are automated for feeding and watering.
When MJK abducted KS & DH, he used a euthanasia gun to skirt the convicted felon in possession of a firearm law. IMO, this would indicate that MJK performed the hands on work, such as euthanizing compromised piglets, etc.
RE: If he was in other confinements regularly - especially anywhere near the girls, wouldn't you think LE would have been notified by these people
3CK, who knows?..These tips may not have been shared with the public or overshadowed by the 1100 other tips, and overlooked by investigators. As was the white box-like SUV which was reported by three different eyewitnesses...It would have made for a very good alibi, and or justification for being in the area, should MJK have been suspected as a POI early on in the investigation.. "Hey, I was just doing my job"..."I am a church going, hard working, respectable family man now"..
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RE: Typically hog confinements are supplied with piglets (typically from a pork producer such as Maschhoff Pork around here) and are managed to market.
3CK, Murphy-Brown is a large nationwide corp.
http://www.murphybrownllc.com/ABOUT/index.html
Welcome to Murphy-Brown, LLC, the livestock production subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, Inc.
As the world’s largest producer of pork products, we’re committed to producing quality pork while protecting the environment and preserving family farms.
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http://www.iowapork.org/FileLibrary/States/IA/News/Magazine/March2012Mag.pdf - March 2012
See Page 27 -
39 hog confinement barns in Central Iowa managed by MJK's inlaws..
In 2004, with the encouragement of Murphy-Brown staff, Steve
and LaVonne leased 20 barns from Murphy-Brown and assumed management of another
24 finishing barns.
They have purchased 10 barns and manage the other 29 for a variety
of owners, both local and distant. In 2006, all sites were converted to wean-to-finish.
The Flygstads now operate 39 barns in central Iowa with their daughter, Lisa, and two employees.
http://www.aasv.org/aasv/documents/SwineEuthanasia.pdf
The Zephyr Gun, which uses a non-penetrating captive bolt to cause a traumatic impact with the skull rendering a pig immediately insensible, was developed at the University of Guelph as an alternative to blunt force trauma for euthanasia.
“He had a gun, but he left it,” DH said. “I took it and hid in the woods.”
The girl tossed the gun, a weapon used for euthanizing livestock, in the woods and kept running, she said. Searchers found the gun Wednesday.
- See more at:
http://thegazette.com/2013/05/23/io...e-money-by-mowing-lawns/#sthash.b0qMzYxY.dpuf
