Thanks. I wish I had actual real information about the case that I could share.
They're fascinating, but I've always been a little afraid of them. We use the rivers for boating, but we don't swim in them much anymore. There's pollution, snakes, river eels, snapping turtles, and fast currents when it rains. We did a "float down the river" fest last summer. It was overseen by the Kentucky Riverkeeper and was to raise money for a local park. Even though we weren't very close to the locks, everyone still had this fear of the current getting too strong and carrying us into them in some kind of nightmarish accident.
I really hope that's not what happened to Savannah. I honestly don't have a real solid theory about her disappearance. The most logical thing would be that the last people who saw her would be the ones responsible so I've been going with that. Getting in an accident on the road and someone either panicking and taking her away or she, herself,crawling off somewhere sound plausible but Julia is right-why wouldn't the dog catch her scent? It's sad. She's young.