Yes indeed. These findings were not "luck". Someone has provided information, in addition to the trail of evidence. I think there will be a star witness at trial. MOO.
I would like to know who MR spent time with the day prior/day of Dylan's arrival. This would be quite revealing, I would suggest.
As always, just my opinion and speculation. Fasten your seatbelts folks, karma is about ready to show up.
Exactly, look at the whole area and it would have been like looking for a needle in a haystack. For LE to arrange a comprehensive search of Middle Mountain with various agencies involved they had to have known something.
thinking about the search warrant being sealed, IIRC the request and reasons/good cause for the warrant to be sealed would have to be explained to the Judge, I believe there is a standard that the request would have to meet to be granted. IMO possible reasons why an order would be sealed are risk - flight risk of a suspect, risk of evidence being destroyed by a suspect and/or risk to officers.
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the following may be of interest
How much information do police officers need to establish that “probable cause” for a search warrant exists?
The Fourth Amendment doesn’t define “probable cause.” Its meaning remains fuzzy. What is clear is that after 200 years of court interpretations,
the affidavits submitted by police officers to judges have to identify objectively suspicious activities rather than simply recite the officer’s subjective beliefs. The affidavits also have to establish more than a “suspicion” that criminal activity is afoot, but do not have to show “proof beyond a reasonable doubt.”
The information in the affidavit need not be in a form that would make it admissible at trial. (For example, a judge or magistrate may consider hearsay that seems reliable.) However,
the circumstances set forth in an affidavit as a whole should demonstrate the reliability of the information. (Illinois v. Gates, U.S. Sup. Ct. 1983.) In general, when deciding whether to issue a search warrant, a judicial officer will likely consider information in an affidavit reliable if it comes from any of these sources:
◦a confidential police informant whose past reliability has been established or who has firsthand knowledge of illegal goings-on
◦an informant who implicates herself as well as the suspect
◦an informant whose information appears to be correct after at least partial verification by the police
◦a victim of a crime related to the search
◦a witness to the crime related to the search or
◦another police officer.
http://www.criminal-lawyer-colorado.com/searchwarrants.html