http://www.wsbt.com/news/wxin-laure...-lauren-spierer-case-20110802,0,2615842.story
The landfills owners released the following statement:
The FBI plans to search the Sycamore Ridge Landfill. We were contacted two weeks ago by the FBI, they obtained a search warrant. We are cooperating in any way we can.
We don't know who they are searching for, we can't tell you times or dates.
The FBI has reason to believe that something is in that landfill. What that is, we don't know.
Fox59 has already reported that
Bloomington Police went to the landfill and asked owners to stake off an area where Bloomington trash was dumped. In an exclusive interview two weeks ago, the landfill's owner said the area had not yet been searched.
(Emphasis mine)
It sounds to me that the BPD requested that the Bloomington trash be set aside, as insurance, just in case they needed to search it later for evidence, or if LS was not found alive, a body. When BPD made that request, they might have had their suspicions that LS was dead, but they also could have still been working on a missing persons case.
It could be that new evidence or new information-- or the fact that LS has not been found-- has now made the search of the landfill a necessity.
What I am trying to say is that the original warrant was to make sure that the Bloomington trash from the time of LS's disappearance was not buried under other trash. The Spierers might not have known about the set-aside request. Maybe, once they learned of it, they requested that people not protest against BPD and said they are satisfied with BPD's handling of the case.
Also, I think the landfill owner tips its hand with this statement: "We don't know
who they are searching for." (Emphasis mine) They later state, "The FBI has reason to believe that
something is in that landfill.
What that is, we don't know." (Emphasis mine) So the FBI is looking for someone or something or both.
