I took some measurements from various spots around the wetlands.
First, this is a measurement from the edge of the road to where it appears they found the body today.
Just for the record, I searched through dozens of photos taken back in March and April of this area from all different angles and I could not see any signs of skeletal remains. It is very likely that the remains were impressed within the mud and then covered with vegetation or they simply were not at this location in March or April (let you decide how the remains could have moved there). This would explain why the FBI chopper's footage did not photograph the remains either.
As we all know, LE is pretty certain that the remains belong to SG. So I got to thinking, if SG was able think more rationally that evening than most people are giving her credit for, what would a rational person do to try to 1) Make headway towards home and 2) still stay out of sight from the people she was running from. Someone here posted a blurb about when we were young and how we played outdoors. That thought reminded me of playing manhunt or flashlight tag with the scouts when I was a kid. One very popular tactic to avoid detection but also to keep one's bearings was to simply follow a road but stay just within the brush 100 or 200 feet. It would not have taken SG much logical thinking to know that she had to follow the highway towards those giant bridges (that at this point were practically casting a shadow down on her with the sunrise directly behind the bridges) So here is a measurement of SG taking the trail up behind the tool sheds/tennis courts and following the road at a safe distance (but still within view).
I do realize that this scenario does not explain how her belongings ended up further South. But then again, we already have been told that it could have been wildlife that moved them away from her body.
The other scenario that got me thinking was what if SG thought she was running out of the neighborhood but made that crucial wrong right turn onto Anchor Way. If she kept on running, eventually she would have ran out of pavement to run on. If she indeed saw cars moving on Ocean Parkway, this is the measurement of her journey if she went across the wetlands from the end of the road;
Once again, that scenario doesn't account for her belongings.
Speaking of her belongings (pants, purse, lip gloss, shoes & cell phone), here is a measurement from where they were found last week to where the body was found today;
Here is a measurement from CPH's house that would put her within the vicinity of that area where her belongings were found;
Finally, it has been speculated (even by myself) that a tip of some sorts came in this week to alert the investigators as to exactly where to look for her body. But now that I think about it, finding SG's remains was actually very simple once her belongings were located. All the investigators had to do was draw a straight line from the point where SG was last seen to the point where her belongings were found and then simply continue at that same compass course heading. One thing I forgot about Ocean Parkway- lamp posts are far and few between. If SG was out there in those wetlands and it was still dark when she entered them, that lone light on the road less than a half mile away could have been what SG fixated upon to keep her bearings and heading towards the highway.
If you draw a straight line from where she was last seen through where her belongings were found and continue to head in that exact same direction it would have brought the detectives to where they were searching this morning. Here is that scenario illustrated. The area circled is where her belongings were found;
The body that was found today was found exactly where the detectives expected to find SG's body based upon simple geometry. It seems like an open and shut case when viewed in this manner. Then again, what if SG's body was placed there and then someone who resides within Oak Beach who is very familiar with how to navigate the wetlands picked her body clean of all items that could be used to identify her and then on their way back to their residence within Oak Beach, they scattered her belongings in the exact center of the wetlands were it surely would have been almost impossible for any outsider to discover them.
Just saying... maybe it's not so much an open and shut case is it?