I've seen cases where grounds have been searched over and over and nothing was found. Then, one day, someone is "turtle hunting," or there are kids playing in a field, or a a hunter is in the woods and then whoa, they stumble across someone's remains. And this has occurred in spite of people, dogs, detectives, helicopters, etc. searching. Sometimes the remains are very close to a crime scene/place last seen, and I think, "geez, why wasn't this person found sooner?" Makes me also wonder how many peoples' final resting place is within their car at the bottom of a river, or in a remote corner of a forest, or buried beneath a building/highway/house. Just thoughts.
I've seen cases where grounds have been searched over and over and nothing was found. Then, one day, someone is "turtle hunting," or there are kids playing in a field, or a a hunter is in the woods and then whoa, they stumble across someone's remains. And this has occurred in spite of people, dogs, detectives, helicopters, etc. searching. Sometimes the remains are very close to a crime scene/place last seen, and I think, "geez, why wasn't this person found sooner?" Makes me also wonder how many peoples' final resting place is within their car at the bottom of a river, or in a remote corner of a forest, or buried beneath a building/highway/house. Just thoughts.
I agree. It is very hard to find a body in the woods. In Maura's case, there is 6 years of falls, summers, winters and springs. Even her clothes and backpack may not stay intact to identify. In the first searches for her, the helicopters' heat seeking device probably didn't hit on anything, because she could have passed away. In her dark clothes, she would look like part of terrain from a helicopter. The landscape in the winter is very black and white.