Any theories as to how he got from The Cottages to the Greenwood facility?
According to
Google Maps, it's a 3-hour walk but a 14-minute drive. I doubt he intended to go for a 3-hour walk in the middle of the night when he had a trip planned in just a few hours and an UberEats order waiting at his front door.
So did he meet someone near his apartments and, for whatever reason, that person drove him to the area near Greenwood?
Did he fall into Oso Bay and just float down that small creek which leads to the facility? (see attached photo) That doesn't seem likely to me because I feel like he would've been sighted earlier, though admittedly I don't know how deep that creek is, or how visible or frequented the surrounding area is, etc.
If someone placed him in the water facility, how come there don't appear to be signs of foul play?
I hope we get more answers in the coming days and weeks.
One of my initial theories was that CH went to meet up with someone and it went wrong, somehow. That the person may have waited to dispose of the body and knew the area.
Problem with my theory is that this person would have had to carry more than 140 pounds down to the water treatment area, etc. Of course, such a person could use a hand truck in the middle of the night. I cited a case where a guy wrapped a dead body in multiple layers of plastic and kept it in his bedroom for quite some time. In that case, the guy eventually departed for parts unknown and his mother found the body. There are a few cases of that type.
I figured that in an apartment complex that contained a lot of students and was within walking distance to the university, that many would not have cars and therefore would be trying to dispose of the body locally.
I think LE may have some ideas (from digital records) about who this person is, but with no body, they found it difficult. I would assume that this person would scope out where cameras might be, and avoid those.
I think it would be very hard for the entire body to end up under that manhole area by coming down the creek, there would be many constrictions and much decomp along the way, leading to much less than entire body (as this seems to be) being in that treatment facility.
I am also guessing that, as with many delayed findings of bodies, it might be quite difficult to ascertain cause of death and manner of death. Caleb disappeared almost 4 months earlier. Unless he was stabbed (and bones were struck) or shot, it might be hard to determine such things as asphyxiation or drowning, because those are diagnoses of exclusion and circumstance.
It's also possible that, if he did drown and come in through the creek side, there could be some signs of that, but it's hard to believe there was enough flow to push the body rapidly down into that position - but I surely don't know the creek or the bay or its currents, at all. For example, one would expect marks on the body from coming in through that system of pipes, perhaps forensic evidence (hair caught in parts of the incoming pipe, decomp stages affected differently due to partial submersion, etc).
Lots to have to work out.
