This may have more relevance now ...
I'm reporting from thread # 1 about the deposition of Joanne's body by a detective pointing out that placement of the body noted panic and being unplanned:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-st...icked-after-unplanned-murder-115875-22818569/
THE country lane where Jo Yeates was found is without doubt one of the most unusual body deposition sites Ive ever visited. It will have given police several clues about the circumstances of her death.
It strongly suggests her murder was not planned and the killer panicked afterwards because virtually no thought has gone into concealing the body.
Jo was left on the verge of Longwood Lane one of the first roads without houses a driver leaving Bristol in this direction will reach. It is 50 yards south of an entrance to a quarry, which would have been a more sensible and less noticeable place to pull over.
This suggests Jo was dumped in the middle of the night when the road was deserted, but the darkness meant the killer missed several better spots nearby to conceal her body properly.
Barely 50 yards from where dog walkers found her there is a gap in the wall leading into woods.
Opposite the floral tributes there is a gap between a wall and a fence at the quarry face. If you are strong enough to get a body into a car it will not take much more effort to get it in the gap. If Jo had been left there it is quite possible she would not have been found for years.
The retired DCI was taking it for granted that the body was dumped where the flowers are. Philb has convincingly demonstrated that it wasn't - it was dumped right at the entrance.
As far as I can see those who are trying to convince us that the body was the other side of the fence are forcing the evidence to fit their theories. The body was dropped on the road side of the fence. This fits much better with all the early statements about the location before the police created the fictitious memorial site.
Let's not forget that the killer could not have known in advance how much it would snow. His priority was putting a few miles pronto between himself and the body and not being seen doing so - not achieving long term concealment.
In my mind's eye I see a killer who on 17th December carried the body to a place of intermediate storage in a place too close for comfort to his home. He may have hoped initially that Jo would remain just another "missing person", that she would not be the subject of a thorough police investigation.
When he saw the police investigation circling around him and the danger that the body might be found in a compromising place, he chose the best moment to get rid of it without being noticed - the early hours of 25th December. Very prudent too. Much more important than long term concealment of the body (once the police had launched a probable murder investigation) was the long term concealment of any connection with himself. He would also realise that carrying bodies over fences or through forests would risk DNA contamination. Much better to keep it wrapped in a pvc tarp in his boot, pour it out by the side of the road and be back home in time to do some innocent web-surfing before church on Christmas morning in order to establish an alibi...