I'm on the scene. Just spoke with the on-camera reporter he's live at 6. Be back later..
Hah, you must've just missed me.
I'm on the scene. Just spoke with the on-camera reporter he's live at 6. Be back later..
I believe I remember hearing that 5 North privately contracted for garbage hauling (is someone able to confirm?).
Confirmed.
He said on the JR must talk site that he doesn't know anyone in the case just found them on twitter and started harassing them to try to get answers. But no he doesn't know LS or any of the POI.
Does all the trash still go to the same place?
... but in the case I've mentioned before, the mother allegedly took a limo to a victim's house with a cash settlement, to avoid court. Appalling as that sounds, and it sounds very appalling.
LOL at the choice of a limo. I wonder if she intended it as a covert operation or an overt way to demonstrate she meant bidness.
I believe I remember hearing that 5 North privately contracted for garbage hauling (is someone able to confirm?). I so hope that this Sycamore Ridge Landfill is where their garbage ends up.
Hah, you must've just missed me.
I remember that also, Carrie. I just checked the Bloomington trash pick-up schedule and plugged in a couple of addresses of the apt. complexes, and it looks like the City of Bloomington does not pick up the trash for those apts.
Because of that, someone said that the trash is picked up on a different day by a private contractor, and I believe Friday was mentioned.
I was teasing the reporter how the news station should have a backdrop of Smallwood by now, rather than driving all the way here and setting up. He said "We should be in Terre Haute right now." He seemed pretty disgusted with BPD, the tech guy too. I asked but the reporter doesn't think the garbage zones can be correlated back to a specific area of town. I thought they could?
Keylime, is this a case one of the POI's was involved in? I don't remember the original post. Thanks.
I asked but the reporter doesn't think the garbage zones can be correlated back to a specific area of town. I thought they could?
I would guess both yes and no.
Trash is taken to a transfer station which is then bulldozed into a semi-trailer, which is taken to the landfill and dumped. A gps location is noted where the trailer dumps. And that shows perhaps what city and day that load was placed.
However, that doesn't show what part of the town the trash came from. The transfer station does not ask where the trash came from when you leave the trash. They only want money.
I presume the way they get money, (from commercial waste removal, individuals pay as they go) is to document the weight of the truck, the company, and get the driver to sign the ticket, then send them the bill.
So it would seem to me that while the semi-trailer dump site is tagged, and that doesn't say precisely where in town the trash came from, one could go thru the transfer records for that day, and cross reference who the driver for the 5 North area was, and then you would have a good idea which semi that trash wound up on, and find it that way.
That kind of papertrail is something the FBI excels at I've heard.
From: http://www.examiner.com/criminal-pr...-won-t-bloomington-police-look-local-landfill
Kenny DePasse, with Indiana's Republic Services, stated that Sycamore Ridge Landfill employs a GPS locating system when scheduling dumps made to the landfill, essentially ensuring the police will be accurately directed to the specific area in which IU trash has been dumped in the days following Lauren Spierer's disappearance.
Few law enforcement agencies enjoy that kind of direction when searching a landfill for potential crime victims, reducing the overall scope of the search if Bloomington PD moves forward.