Hi, I’ve been active elsewhere but lurking here since May 20th. This is my first post on WebSleuths.
Let’s go back to day one. The gravel in the tread of Suzanne’s bike tires could reveal whether the bike was tossed in the ditch, purely as a ruse, or if she was abducted from her bike ride. Let me elaborate:
Background: The route Suzanne typically rode on her bike was from her home, down her subdivision road to a little subdivision bridge across Little River to a spur road of CR225. There she could ride down 225
along the river to Fooses dam or up towards US50 (or both). The bike was found on CR225, not far from US50. Locals say she would not have ridden the shoulder of US50 to get to CR225 because it too dangerous.
The spur and CR225 have a commercial type of gravel, as governments tend to buy. Her driveway and her subdivision streets are a darker, more “upscale” type of gravel.
Therefore, The PREVIOUS TIME she rode the bike HOME, the tire tread would have picked up that type of gravel before she put it in the garage. IF that darker gravel was in the tires when it was found it is likely the killer DROVE the bike to CR225 and tossed the bike in the ditch as a ruse.
If Suzanne RODE her bike to CR225 where the bike was found ... the tread would have a lot of commercial grade gravel.
So, analysis of the bike tires could show murder or abduction. The bike languishes in the CCSO Evidence Room.
Good information here regarding the gravel,
@KindaSleuthy. Just a quick question. Do you have definitive information regarding her usual bike route?
“Locals say she would not have ridden the shoulder of US50 to get to CR225 because it too dangerous.”
I am not understanding this statement. She gets to 225 directly from PP and would not have to bike along Hwy 50. From her home she would have 2 choices leaving Puma Path. All would require turning left out of her driveway as PP dead ends shortly after the Morphew home. I am attaching a couple of maps to the post because I think it’s easier to visualize what I am trying to say about possible bike routes.
Coming out at the end of PP would place her at the 225 intersection where she could go left to Fooses Dam or right, which would take her to either 226 up the road on her left, or on up to Hwy 50 right past where her bike was found.
If she turned left off PP at the dirt road before reaching 225, she would be on the road that leads to Monarch Spur RV Park and the lake/dam at the S Arkansas River. From studying the map of the area, SM would have about four different routes that are basically out and back on the same road and another one which would provide a circular route on which only the last quarter of a mile, (from the 50-225 intersection), would be the same. This last route could be traveled in either direction.
I have drawn out the possible routes on one of the attached maps. All assume she has taken a left out of her driveway.
Route 1 would go to the 225 intersection, then left to Fooses and the southern part of the Colorado Trail.
Route 2 would go right on 225 and left on 226 just before Hwy 50.
Route 3 would go to the left on the dirt road before the intersection of 225 and to either the RV Park or the lake where she would turn around and come back.
Route 4 would go right at the intersection of 225 then up across 50 to the northern section of the Colorado Trail
Route 5 would go towards the RV Park, cross 50, and then circle back to the CO trail where she would cross 50 again.
Routes 4 and 5 both cross Hwy 5o which is a very busy roadway.
MOO
Edited to correct map.
