Why would you go to all the trouble to mix up cement and pour it over a body and then leave the encasement in plain view of any passerbys???? Stupider things have been done by criminals I'm sure, but why wouldn't you dig a hole and then put the cement/body in the hole???? Why leave it right out there in the open like that? Of course if he buried her under ground, why would he need cement???
Kudos to Linda for her hard work, but I don't think there is a body under there.
Shortage of time, and hardness of the ground? If this is Susan't burial site, and Josh buried her there, he would have been in a tremendous panic to get done and leave. If he came back in the rental car with several bags of cement mix, all the more reason to hurry. He'd have been very lucky to have initially chosen a spot with a water source, unless he knew the site from previous visits.
I saw this thread yesterday, but like Pickie I couldn't believe that LE would not have immediately followed up the lead, if only to eliminate the site from their enquiries. Overlooking this lead until the press bought it to their attention (FCOL, the Police should be a bit smarter than this) is yet another screw-up by WVPD, the third by my count.
The choppy nature of the concrete surface suggests to me that it's more than just a tippage of excess concrete from a lorry, because that ought to be smooth and properly mixed. this stuff looks much more like it was mixed badly, manually, either with hands or a shovel, and on site.
With the right equipment they wouldn't have to break up or move the concrete to tell if there was a body inside. If they are suspicious that a body may be in or under the concrete they could do non-intrusive ultrasound and ground radar tests. They may need to borrow the equipment and services of an archeological team, but it can be done.
That the concrete is supposed not wide enough for hips is irrelevent, a body could be lying on its side under there, and may not have been in one piece.
This may turn out to be a random spillage or fly-tipping of concrete, but LE should definitely have visited the site the day the lead was given to them.
btw, the vaseline jars and child's shoe were found on different searches in different parts of the desert, and are not in any way related to this concrete "tomb", as I read the examoner.com article.
"Osborne has found many things while searching in the desert. She's found items such as one child's shoe with no matching shoe in the area, which she's found suspicious. She once found a plastic bag with what appeared to be trash, clothing, and two large jars of Vaseline. One jar was ½ empty, the other almost empty. These types of findings are disturbing."
from
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-...t-is-worthy-of-police-investigation-Slideshow
