Hi everyone -- newbie here. Couple comments -- first on the body --
I'm assuming Jennifer's body was found on the south side of Center Road, because the ground slopes down sharply from the road on that side, and the trees grow pretty close to the road, so her body would perhaps not have been able to be seen from someone passing by in a car (especially if they weren't thinking to look). I was looking over emails from my family and friends who still live in the area (and we were chatting about snow a lot because everyone was looking forward to the likely possibility of a white Christmas) - and for the week after JR went missing, it was rainy and fairly warm -- in the 40's. But on Dec. 20, it started to snow there, and quite a bit of snow in next couple days, and then the day after Christmas a lot of snow, and on Dec. 27 also a lot -- basketball tournaments and such for the kids were cancelled in Chenango County. So, that snow would have covered her, and probably not melted off, because of the shade from the trees. If that gentleman hadn't gone to inspect the coyote tracks, she probably wouldn't have been found even this early.
And, even though I get a bit annoyed when certain people tend to defend a potential suspect, the good news is that such people prompted the recent media blitz (which did the chief actor no good -- body language and eye movement and vocabularly...) -- anyway, I think that may have prompted more awareness (that's when one friend, who's kids are friends of Jennifer's children, told me about her going missing) -- and that may have been what prompted that gentleman to go back an check out those coyote tracks.
The blessing is that the snow and cold would have helped preserve her, so hopefully can get some answers with regard to toxicology and COD. Most likely her own van is what transported her body to Center Road -- the mud and all, and she was probably killed and then put in back of van, which would explain her body in the fetal position -- that's the position she'd have been in when rigor mortis set in. Unfortunately, lividity will probably not yield anything as it's likely her body was left on the side of the road before that had a chance to take effect, if we consider one suspect. In that case, only about a 7 hour window of time to kill her and dispose of the body.