Yes, I tell anyone who will listen that driving 11th Street west and over to 17th St /Arlington Road will have you in isolated countryside in 5-10 minutes with no cameras, no cops, little to no other cars at that hour. In 20 minutes, you can be in the area where Jill Behrman's remains lay undetected for three years.
Here's a link to one of those cases:
I assure you that there have been extensive searches outside of Bloomington. As searchers we sign a disclaimer stipulating that we do not discuss where we search or what we find there. Additionally, we are not told where other search groups go or what areas have already been searched. Once in a while, we will be told that we are covering previously searched territory, but that's it. For the most part, the areas in Monroe County that people repeatedly mention as high priority areas that need to be searched have already been taken care of. They just are not discussed outside of a certain room in the search headquarters.
Please re-read the second sentence of my response that you just quoted.
Great point. This has been problematic from a searcher's point of view, as well. If you focus only on where students hang out, you will miss many more likely places she could be in the instance of random abduction by a local (such as was the case with Jill Behrman). But then you have to consider that if it was a POI, how well did this person know Bloomington and the surrounding area? Did he participate in Little 500, and so would know all the little country roads where the riders train? Was he a hiker? Two of the people who are not mentioned in MSM as POIs are from Indy-- what back roads do they know? The places where people hang out in the summer is the last place you would want to dump a body because, well, people are hanging out there and she would be found quickly. What if you got out there and there was someone already there? Or someone pulled up while you were removing the body? It's not impossible, but to be able to hide her in plain sight, undetected in a place like Griffey, which is constantly used this time of year (and with dogs in the same numbers of humans), would require an amazing level of luck. But at the same time, it's not something that we automatically rule out. Searching is an unbelievably frustrating task because there are so many variables. But as I've said before, we're not giving up.
