As you guys can tell from my relentless and hideous posts, I haven't committed suicide either recently or in the past. What I HAVE done is spent countless hours, days and months out in a forest environment. Since I've never committed suicide, I don't know for sure what the mindframe would be of the person doing it, but I would have to assume that part of the mindframe is to get hidden and be left alone with your thoughts. That would mean hidden from hikers, dog walkers, bird watchers, mountain bikers, motorists, and just about anybody else that might happen to stroll along. The keyword here is hidden.
At this time of the year, and especially a month ago, hiding in a thick forest would be relatively easy, especially if you got off the trail and headed cross country. Since this lady was a regular at this park, I have to assume that she had done plenty of exploring and ventured deep inside of it, much more so than an occasional visitor might. I also suspect that she had a favorite place she liked to go that was both secluded and quiet with little interference from other park guests. It was "her spot". I've had a couple of those of my own throughout the years.
At the beginning of the thread I made a short comment about them taking this lady's dogs to the park and cutting them loose and letting the dogs track her down. I wasn't being smarty pants about it, I meant it. If she had a favorite spot or a secluded spot she liked to hang out at, chances are good that at one point or another she might have taken her dogs with her to that spot, possibly numerous times. Animals will often return to places that are familiar to them, especially domesticated animals. If this had been done a month ago, her dogs might have actually been able to follow her scent since they know what she smells like better than anybody, and coupled with the dogs knowing her favorite spot, I think it might have worked. Sure, the dogs may have been a little distracted by all the attention and commotion brought on by the search efforts, but after a few hours of getting things relaxed, I think they would've ventured off to familiar territory. All that would really be needed is a couple of people following along behind them, no need for dozen of searchers and other dogs to be present, in fact the fewer the better.
Personally. I think she left her car and belongings behind so that people would know where she is. In this day and age of electronics, it's not all that easy to simply vanish without leaving some proof of life behind or some electronic breadcrumbs such as cellphone pings, debit transactions, or internet use. It's my understanding that there has been none of that reported to date. Sure, disappearing for a couple of weeks might not be so hard, but we've gone way past that now and still nothing to show that she is "out there" somewhere. The cops wouldn't be searching again if they had evidence like that.
She's in the park. Take her dogs in there and let 'em find her. If the cops won't do it, then the family should.
It would be better if a couple of strangers took them in though, because the dogs would have no ties to them and would have more of a tendency to venture off to a familiar place after getting settled down. It might take the biggest chunk of a day, it might take ALL day, but eventually they will lead the searchers to that spot.
