Just wondering, and I mean no harm, but does anyone feel like there might be a bit of tunnel vision regarding the suspicion around her spouse? I mean, I get why, and I know we don’t know enough about the case to say for sure, but I do know that often in these cases, people seem awfully guilty when they’re not.
My fear is that tunnel vision may lead to inadvertently ignoring important clues/avenues
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I don't know that LE has tunnel vision on this. For me I haven't been able to shake the idea that there is a woman involved with this case as the person actually responsible for Anna's disappearance. I could very well be wrong about it.
But when I look at how this played out, how long it took LE to develop probable cause for the search warrant for the home it leads me to think a few things.
First, that there was likely no evidence of Anna being deceased found in her car or home. I would have expected more LE coordinated searches had either been the case. Anna would be located somewhere in the vicinity of where her car had been if there was evidence of Anna being deceased found in it. That doesn't mean where her car was found but anywhere the car had traveled which almost certainly would be recorded by the computer in the console of her car. Or, if there were indications in the home there would have been a more extensive search of the property occurring over more than one day let alone the few hours they were there.
Second, that it was information from the computer in her vehicle that proves the initial story given to LE was not true - when Anna left the home, that is what day and time - that actually provided the probable cause for the search warrant of the home. Her vehicle almost certainly had a GPS receiver in it as most, if not almost all, modern vehicles have them. Any car that offers built-in turn by turn directions as a feature or offer an OnStar or OnStar-like service have GPS devices in them. Since they are passive receivers there is no cost for them to operate and thus those GPS devices are always on and record to the computer location information. How far back it goes is the only question.
Third, it appears that something was going on within the household in the two to three weeks prior to her reported disappearance based on the reported conversations with her mother and the changes in plan of coming and then not coming to Poland and changes in returning to work and/or not completing annual goal requirements. There wasn't much revealed about what was the original plan for coming to Poland and how long prior to March/April that plan was made as we only have been provided what happened in the immediate time frame prior to her disappearance. Was the trip to Poland planned on the spur of the moment? Was that how Anna did things? Or, was it planned prior and then changes occurred per the conversations? Was Anna always this way when it came to taking time off or completing work tasks like setting annual goals? While this all could be related to the health of her parents I get the strong sense that the conversations and changes related to the Poland trip had to do with something else going on within Anna's household. What could the cause of that stress in the household be? I tend to think, in the absence of any other information, that infidelity by either one is a good possibility. Based on what we know of the early part of the last week of March whatever it was it had to be something that causes a lot of stress and reluctance to share, even what it was, with her own mother or friends. I would think there would have been some hint as to what was going on out already but nothing has appeared.
When I put this together in my mind I get the sense that Anna went somewhere to meet someone - a woman to woman talk. Likely in the evening of March 28th or into the day on March 29th. This would be a woman that Anna knew and trusted so this would be a double betrayal which makes things more difficult.
I truly believe that this case will be solved/resolved due to electronic forensics. Her vehicle's computer will also have a record of any Blue Tooth device that came within range. All such devices have a globally unique ID. Most people don't turn it off. So, when it comes to a car anyone that walked by it for example in a grocery store parking lot while carrying their cell phone would end up with their cell phone's Blue Tooth ID stored in a log in the car's computer. What this means is that any Blue Tooth device that came within range of the car will be logged including when that occurred and correlating that with the GPS location of the car at that time allows you to know not only where the car was but where someone else also was.
Cell phone location records and Cell Tower records will play a role in this as well since LE would know about almost all phones (except those not turned on or have a dead battery) that would be in the vicinity of a specific location at a specific time.
But none of this will allow LE to find the person responsible for Anna's death until Anna's body is found since LE will be able to work backward from that location in the electronic information and correlations in the electronic information. This is why finding Anna is critical, in my opinion. Her location should lead LE directly to who to arrest for this, though it may not happen quickly after she is found.
But like I said, I could be wrong. LE could have evidence of Anna being deceased in her home or car and have evidence of all kinds but prosecutors are not willing to go forward with the case without a body. So again, it also becomes critical to find Anna.
With no statute of limitations on murder LE there is not much motivation for LE, particularly the PA State Police, to move quickly on this, let alone search, let alone encourage search activities, with the assumption that eventually someone will stumble across her. Pressure on LE and prosecutors is appropriate, particularly the elected District Attorney. Not that it will necessarily work but it also doesn't hurt. At a minimum, if the pressure continues, it should cause LE or the prosecutors to release some information or take some action if only to try to relieve the pressure on them. I have been encouraged by the long over-due statements by LE and/or prosecutors in the recent weeks. Whether that is actually LE and prosecutors truly moving forward in this case or simply trying to placate people wanting some action is yet to be seen. If LE and prosecutors add nothing more in the coming weeks then we will know their recent statements were meant to placate.
Hopefully the upcoming search or future searches will lead to Anna.