With all due respect I do not think the word is conspiracy. This is an ongoing investigation. That isn't a cover up it is not releasing information that can be used at trial.
*nods vehemently* During an ongoing investigation, police are not required to release every bit of information to the public. Doing so would jeopardize current investigations, as some leads can and often do become red herring leads or completely irrelevant down the road. During trial, those same publicized "bad leads" can be used to point out perceived incompetency within the investigation by defense (DTL's defense used that angle, if I remember correctly).
I know we all want to know everything that's going on, and we want to know yesterday, but we as the general public can't have it both ways. The departments have to be quiet about certain things. From my personal point of view, after viewing so much of the media circus for the DTL investigation, it's refreshing to see the agencies involved in the Shunick investigation practicing a bit of discretion. A conspiracy has connotations of wrongdoing by the police department, and I just don't think that is the case here. Mr. Bobby is a man of integrity, and seeing St. Landry cars at that Elaine Lane home made me smile, albeit a bit grimly. St. Landry Parish Sheriff Department is a small, underfunded agency whose investigators fiercely love their jobs/callings. I don't trust many police organizations, but this one I trust. There are good people there, and I mean that in the Cajun sense of "good people".
Please also keep in mind that there is a very, very strong sense of community involvement around here regarding Mickey and her family. Almost every streetpost in the carea has her smiling face plastered on it, everyone talks about her and we're just relieved that, unlike so many missing women, she is not being forgotten and relegated as just another "cold case". You can't watch what her family has done/is currently doing and not be heartbroken/proud of them for all they are enduring. They didn't ask for their loved one to go missing. They didn't ask to be thrust in the spotlight like this. They're just normal people who are responding extraordinarily to horrifying circumstances.
I believe you are 100% correct. I mentioned that a long time ago when I was just trying to think where to hide a body. But I didn't know his connection with cemeteries. IMO now all of them in the area need to be searched. At night I believe he could bury her in a new grave where the dirt wasn't settled yet and easy to shovel. It shouldn't be hard to look up all the deaths and where they were buried in the past month or two before Mickey was abducted. I think so anyway. I don't think death certificates show the cemetary, but obituaries do. Just a thought and JMO.
Lafayette is very like New Orleans in burial practices: most of the graves consist of a concrete crypt partially sunk (3-4 feet) into the ground, with the concrete vault completely visible aboveground. The vault is sealed with cement mortar and an airtight seal is achieved this way. We have a very high water table here and occasionally we have floods. It's not unheard of for caskets to pop out of the ground and float away on a new adventure when the floodwaters rise. Caskets actually have a little sealed vial with funeral home, cemetery and decedent information on them for identification should they take an unauthorized "cruise" during the next hurricane.
There are a few places around here which do deep belowground burials. Bellevue Memorial in Opelousas comes to mind, as does Greenlawn in Carencro and the one here in Lafayette off of Pinhook.
For those with a morbid bent, here's a list of Lafayette Parish cemeteries:
http://www.la-cemeteries.com/Cemeteries Lafayette Table.shtml
