I am not convinced they crossed the creek and what you say about the south bank having no crime scene tape is a good point. LE have said the BG pic was just before criminal activity began which is not necessarily the murder but could be just the abduction. They could have been driven from the bridge to the rear of the cemetery straightaway and taken down that way, hence the reenactments being wrong. It would explain few witnesses seeing him and the lack of south bank crime scene tape and the quick getaway and the possibility of returning to take part in the search if he is a local. MOO.
IMO, if he had gotten the girls into a vehicle, they would have been long gone. He would have taken them somewhere much more isolated than the north side of the park. Unless he had some kind of connection to that particular location, which I know some people think he did. I just don't, personally, see it as that kind of killing.
If they all three crossed the creek, the north side would be the side I'd really suspect there to be tape, because they would have been wet and muddy and maybe leaving more of a trail? JMO And as far as I know, there could have been a taped off area by the creek. I just haven't seen any photos.
ETA: Somewhere recently I read an old interview with MP. He was talking about how, right after the girls were found, he was going to put together a team to search the creek, but LE told him they were doing it already. That they were using sonar, etc. But there was also a comment, iIrc, about this being part of their searches of possible
escape routes. So how BG left, not how he came. Sorry, no link. I don't remember where I saw it, but that was interesting to me.
