I thought of that too . She might have been looking at maps.google then went there in person to find that place off the main road she could maybe dig a hole later where she could hide her car good enough . You have to kind of put yourself in her place to imagine how she did this . But if she maybe overdosed that little kid she would probably need to go back when it was warm enough to dig a hole because when she went in Feb & March to do her scoping the ground was probably hard as a rock and snow covered . I think Illinois must have a lot of severe winter . I read the other day that in the motel room where they found her body there was a bottle of child's medicine that she maybe used to give Timmy to sedate him , have to look at that site again. She used pills twice on herself so I am leaning towards her giving him something to overdose him . Also, I am wondering if the county officials could require all the land-owners in those 6 possible counties to comb their land for possible disturbed ground where she might have buried him . I think her plan was to take him WITH HER . I hope she did not harm him though and that she found some really good family to take care of him , the higher road instead of the lower road . Timmothy needs his dad and his dad needs him . Amy must have left him alone with his dad for the trips she took . Maybe she just didn't want to take care of him that much even though she loved him .
Unfortunately, this story is all too familiar. This type of thing happened to a family friend’s child. There was a restraining order against her ex but he was able to take her son out of school. He took him to a hotel and gave the child pills and he took pills as well. They were found dead in that hotel room.
If this is what happened in this case, maybe she found a spot that Timmothy liked or where she felt at peace. She gave him the pills there because she never wanted anyone else to know where he was at. She wanted to be found though. It would be obvious that she would have hid him from the world to say that no one would ever take him from her.
It’s very sad that some people believe that’s the only way to keep their child with them forever.