BBM:
That's not where my brain is tracking right now.
I don't see disposal of SM's body happening during daylight.
Here's what I'm currently pondering:
What if the digital evidence shows BM's phone being either turned off or stationary at the house, at the exact time his vehicle gps shows his truck traveling at an inexplicably strange time, like, say, the middle of the night, for 3.5 hours?
If BM's phone and vehicle were separated in the middle of the night, that would be an indicator to LE that it was the likely critical window of time during which SM was moved from the house to another location.
The problem with that line of thought is that if BM's truck showed him going to a location in the middle of the night and stopping there for any period of time, LE would have been all over that area.
So, I'm hitting a wall there, too.
JMO.
I agree it was likely an evening move of her body after dark Saturday night.
Maybe it went sort of like this. Just speculating because I am pretty stumped as to the actual movements and timeframes so just taking a shot at it. Sorry such a long post here.
Just speculating....
Around noon Saturday, BM tells MG the work day is done at the Salida site and he needs to go home to make the wife happy. He arrives home around 12:30pm, and the texts with the friend abruptly stop. Assuming SM is no longer with us shortly after this 12:30pm time on Saturday. Her phone is also disabled at this time. He may also have turned off his phone at this point.
BM then realizes he needs to run back to Salida to pickup some cleaning and other supplies. Store receipts will be important if this part is true.
MG sees BM back in Salida and assumes he never went home but he actually did for a little bit just prior to that.
BM eventually leaves Salida and goes back home to do the best house cleaning he has ever done. He also gets all ready to transport a body and plant the bicycle. Nightfall has arrived by then.
It is close to 11PM before he realizes he needs a piece of equipment that is back at the Salida work site location. He makes a call to one of his workmates and they meet him at the Salida site to pickup and load up whatever equipment he needed.
The neighbor at the Salida site hears all the commotion and is woken up by all the noise.
He gets loaded up in Salida and ends up back at his house around midnight or shortly after that.
By 1 or 2 AM, he is ready to go.
He loads up a vehicle and maybe even the bobcat onto the trailer. This part is somewhat of a mystery whose vehicle this is and whether the trailer and bobcat were ever moved.
For example, he may have been able to borrow a vehicle by trading it with a friend's non-GPS vehicle with some kind of excuse about his hitch ball not being right or something off the wall like that where the friend may have not even known what was going down. Or it may have been his own vehicle and the automatic vehicle location system may have only intermittently transmitted GPS coordinates like every hour instead of a more frequent occurrence.
From what I have read about these automatic vehicle location systems, they vary quite a bit in how they function. Some are activated only when the engine is turned on or off and others are motion activated for theft reasons. And even when they are activated, the frequency of when they transmit GPS locations can also vary according to my understanding.
Below is some of the explanations of some of these systems and from reading about them, there seems to be enough variance and differences that they may not always transmit GPS coordinates 100 percent of the time.
So if it was his vehicle, then maybe the system only transmitted information like once every 1/2 hour or once every hour and it may have added enough confusion that LE has not been able to narrow down to a precise location but they have gotten close.
Enter this new search group. We can be certain a group of these searchers will be in the general vicinity of wherever LE thinks is the best chance of finding Suzanne. So that is comforting and we all wish them safety and success.
All JMO of course
Sorry such a long post. Below is a link that describes some of the vehicle location systems and the differences that some of them have.
"It might be helpful to draw a distinction between vehicle location systems which track automatically and event activated tracking systems which track when triggered by an event. There is increasingly crossover between the different systems and those with experience of this sector will be able to draw on a number of examples which break the rule.
A.V.L (Automatic Vehicle Location) This type of vehicle tracking is normally used in the fleet or driver management sector. The unit is configured to automatically transmit its location at a set time interval, e.g. every 5 minutes. The unit is activated when the ignition is switched on/off.
E.A.T.S (Events Activated Tracking system) This type of system is primarily used in connection with vehicle or driver security solutions. If, for example a thief breaks into your car and attempts to steal it, the tracking system can be triggered by the immobiliser unit or motion sensor being activated. A monitoring bureau, will then be automatically notified that the unit has been activated and begin tracking the vehicle."
Automatic vehicle location - Wikipedia
