Hraefn
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This is my first time posting to this site. I am a New Jersey native and have been a Monmouth County resident for close to half of my life. This case has really stayed with me and I have tried to watch it very closely. I stumbled upon the first 76 page thread and this website completely by accident a few days ago while searching the web for information pertaining to this case. My thoughts and prayers go out to any and all who are affected by this tragedy, especially Sarah's family and friends.
With that said I'd like to add some perspective and hopefully clarify some things about the areas where the safes were found and where Sara's house is. Being local to the area I think I could help others who are not with some questions. I am not an expert and I am only speaking from experience.
A lot of people are talking about the neighbors camera footage. Now I don't know exactly what street Sarah's house was on, but I do know the area and a lot of the houses are small beach bungalow's, sometimes with no or very small driveway's. Most likely the car was parked on the street, this is very common in that area. I believe I read that it was not a next door or across the street neighbor that caught the footage, which probably means it was someone a few houses down, where it's likely her car could have been parked. The footage revealed someone (who was thought at first to be Sarah) in a red hooded windbreaker get in to her car. It could have been LM or PT who got in and drove it to the front of Sarah's house, or as close as they could to do what they had to do to get her deceased body in it. It's very possible that the camera caught someone getting in to her car, and maybe her house and what happened there was out of range for it. Just a thought.
Next I'd like to explain the areas where the safes were found:
- Sandy Hook is a national park. It is a very very small peninsula off the "main land". The only entrance to the park is where the peninsula meets the "main land", unless you arrive there by boat. The entrance has a few ticket/information booths where you pay to get in, there are camera's, and when they close the park i believe they put gates up so us regular folk can't get in and out. I also know that if you are on Sandy Hook after hours you need a permit. How those who have a permit get in and out at night I'm not too sure. Sandy Hook being a national park it is also heavily patrolled by NJ State Troopers at all hours, and there is an active Coast guard base on it. Point being, it is highly unlikely the boys drove in to the park to bury anything at night. In my opinion the only way they could have maybe accessed the park at night would have been by foot. I'm curios where exactly the safe was found and if that could have been a possibility.
-Shark River Park on the other hand I'm not very familiar with. I do believe there is one actual gate but many alternative ways you could probably bypass it and access the park. I know it is part of the Monmouth County Parks system and there are specific closing times, but I'm not sure how guarded the area is at night, if they close the gates, or if there are camera's.
:welcome6: to WS! And thank you for the local perspective, it is always helpful to those of us who haven't been to the area.