Regarding my long-winded post a few pages back. I understand why the Sherriff would have thought DeOrr had simply gotten lost. I even understand how it may have taken a period of time for him to consider the other possibilities. Not a few of us on here have said ourselves, who would go to a remote campsite to kidnap a child? I would be willing to bet that they have had similar missing children’s cases where the child wandered off and was found by SAR. I’m assuming they have not had any true stranger abduction kidnappings. The human brain goes to what it knows so I think it’s perfectly reasonable that the events panned out as they did.
My point was rather that some of us on here point out how the message has changed or things aren’t right. I think those inconsistencies can be accounted for by looking at the disappearance and investigation as a process that was constantly changing.
My belief is that DeOrr is somewhere up there in a crack or crevice and hasn’t been found. There are enough cases where searches were conducted and the bodies not found to later have it turn up in the same area.
Jesse Capen (a full grown adult male) wasn’t found for 4 years even though “In the past three years, hundreds of volunteers have scoured the desert looking for Capen’s remains.” This was in the dessert with little brush. How much smaller was DeOrr and how much more complicated is the geography of Idaho?
All MOO.
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_22314861/denver-mans-search-lost-dutchman-mine-likely-ended