If you zoom in on momtective's map, it just makes this tragic discovery that much more bizarre. Once you're at the "street view" level, standing in the roadway just outside the park and the area where this child was located, you'll notice that there are houses within plain sight and just across the street from this playground area with an unobstructed view. The area where this child was found is well lit. There is a street light perched right on the edge of the playground area of the park.
LE is saying that heat from the sand discolored the body. I find that a bit odd, but something else. How long are we thinking he was in the sand if the heat from it discolored his lil body? LE says he had been deceased for more than 48 hours, or no more than 48 hours (I confused myself, sorry). That means he'd have had to be in the sand for 48 hours or less. This is a public playground and there will be children. Reasonably, how long could this child have been here without someone's child digging in this sand and finding...... kwim?
Heat from the sand, in my mind, equates being in the sand during the day before (minimum) but how could he be there for say, 24 hours and not be discovered? IN A SANDBOX IN A PUBLIC PARK!!!
And his foot, that bothers me a lot. Someone went to the trouble of burying him and left his foot sticking out? IF he suffocated in that sand, there would be no marks or obvious signs of trauma, correct? Is it possible some sick #%$*%$)*#* buried him and left him to.....well, you know.
Or, were they in a hurry and overlooked the foot? I don't see how. Those million candle power phosphorus street lights leave little to the imagination. I would think a black shoe would be pretty easy to spot atop sand. That is of course if the light was working.
It's just got to be someone familiar with that area in a big way. And someone who wanted him found, quickly. Seems to me that it makes the most sense that our lil mystery guy was deceased before he was buried there? And that he was placed there during the overnight hours before he was found the next morning? They focused on this woman who was seen in the park with four children late the night before. From that I gather they have a time frame and this woman was in the park close to the suspected time he was buried.
I just think this is a bizarre place to leave him and it doesn't look like someone would have preplanned to put a child here. Whoever did this would have to know no one would be looking when they left him there. That would mean they'd visited the park frequently, at night, and possibly into the wee hours of the morning. Not many people are going to get in their car and drive to a park in the middle of the night for recreation. Unless they know the area intimately.
What do you want to bet that in one of those houses, within just two or three blocks of the dump site, someone is acting really, really strange and they know who this child is?
Thanks for the map momtective. It really helps to put things into perspective.
ETA: The "I gather" part, about the time frame? I gather that only from my own speculation...nothing more. I've not heard or read that anywhere.
