I’m really not understanding the idea of a march being productive. I have definitely noticed a smattering of people who show up to search and that’s disheartening. But there is a PI or SAR man from out of state who has come at least once, if not twice. It was stated in one of the newspaper links (anyone remember which one?) But where are all of the family’s people? Coworkers? Friends of the grandparents and mother? The teenage brother’s friends? Dulce’s father’s family? Church friends? These are the people who would come to mind for me when I need help for anything (even moving from home to home). LE indeed seems to have gone poof but they do occasionally post Dulce’s flyer on the prosecutors page. The rumors indeed, I feel are impeding volunteers as they feel searching for what they “know” is fruitless. They may be resentful and angry themselves as they avoid helping. Once again, I will say the blatantly obvious answer to getting help from the community is simply for LE to clearly state where the dogs dropped the scent and to confirm the scent was from Monday and not Friday’s visit to the park. Why oh why is this so hard for them to do? How would that information put a case as old/cold as this one in jeopardy?? So frustrating!
Ita! Continuous searches need to be done by family members, friends, and those in the community should also actively search when they can.
I remember years ago another tragic case where a very young woman had been kidnapped from a Target parking lot in broad daylight.
She was missing for months even though everyone knew her sexual predator had raped, murdered, and then discarded her body.
LE had done extensive searches also so had the community. But the family of Dru never stopped searching for her, and they are the very ones who located her remains months after she had been kidnapped.
No one has a more personal vested interest in finding anyone who remains missing more than family members, and friends of any missing victim, and most especially one of the tender age of beautiful Dulce.
They can't just leave it up to others, and they certainly don't have any right to blame or complain about others.
I believe LE has been diligently working on Dulce's case all along, but like in most all cases that remains unsolved this length of time, they no longer speak to the media nearly as often, and sadly the media also loses interest, and moves on as well to other cases or news stories, unless its breaking news about any case.
I've seen the same thing happen in many cases, with most who thought they had grown cold with LE no longer investigating them as rigorously as they had in the beginning only to learned they never stopped no matter how long it took to apprehend the suspects.
We may not understand the reasons why LE does or does not do things, but I've found they know why they do certain things the way they do.
If the scent trail ended, imo, it means she, and the offender were traveling by vehicle by then.
I don't know if they brought in air trailing scent dogs immediately that are able to track a suspect or victim while in a traveling vehicle. If not, LE nor anyone else wouldn't know which area to search.
It then becomes like countless other cases looking for a tiny needle in a haystack without knowing which haystack to even look in.
Jmho