Okay, I have been looking at this from the legal standpoint.
here's what I have come up with.
A judge has to sign off on a warrant and for that to happen, LE has to tell the judge just what they are looking for. In some instances it can be very specific: "We are searching for a .45 caliber handgun."
In other cases, it is more broad, they can say that they are searching for documents related to a business, or they are searching for items of forensic importance.
However, they can't just say that they want a search warrant to look for anythng interesting.
So, for them to get the search warrant as fast as they did, yet remove as much as they did, LE had to know that what they were searching for was in that home, yet not be 100% sure what it was.
And that has me confused. A towel or washcloth would lead to the seizure of towels and linens from the house, as well as possibly laundry soap and the like to prove that those items were washed in the home.
the phone would result in them seizing paper records, bills, things of that nature.
Fibers on the tape would result in the seizure of much of casey's clothing and bedding and many cloth items in the house.
The vaccuums and those types of things, could very well have been covered under a broad warrant calling for the seiue of anything that could potentially bear forensic evidence.
But like, I said, to get the warrant that fast, they had to know what they were looking for, but maybe not be 100% sure.
Another idea is that they had the warrant written up in advance, waiting for the discovery of a body, ready to shipped out immediately to the judge. It would have to be a long warrant, but LE has had a lot of time over the past few months to decide what else they might want out of that house.