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My understanding is that results with cadaver dogs are highly variable. Sometimes they miss graves that are relatively fresh, and sometimes that can find bodies that have been buried for decades. Overall, they don't have a great track record.I would like to know the likelihood of success, if they bring cadaver-dogs out to all of the sites-of-interest mentioned earlier in the thread. If there were remains at any of the sites, might the dogs be able to tell, or have too many years passed?
IMO they should do absolutely everything they can to try to bring answers to these families, even if they have to fundraise from the community to pay for it.
"In 2003 A.E. Lasseter and his colleagues at the University of Alabama used four teams to identify 10 fresh and skeletonized remains buried from 1 to 2 feet below ground. They found overall poor results. Only two of the alerts correctly signaled the location of remains. In contrast there were six false alerts and 22 no alerts, revealing significant problems in detection."
http://www.chicora.org/pdfs/Cadaver Dogs in Cemeteries.pdf