afitzy
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I looked at Connecticut map last night. If he drove to Hartford, he certainly could have driven to the ocean. I’m with you on driving 50 miles. Just think it was ocean. And if she was bloody, “plenty of (hungry) fish in the sea.” Sick interpretation of quote. She could have found another man. There are plenty of fish in the sea, as the saying goes.. but in the end, the fish in the sea that she caught, may have eaten her. Euk.
You are correct that the CT coastline offers access to significant opportunities to dispose of a body. Fairfield and New Haven Counties (and Westchester County, NY) and Nassau and Suffolk Counties, NY border on Long Island Sound. Here is basic map:
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Long Island Sound is tidal and salt water and has some commercial fishing and commercial barge traffic and runs down the length of CT, into Westchester County and eventually NYC (from Greenwich, CT on the water you can see the NYC skyline on a clear day). In general except in the commercial corridors of Long Island Sound its not very deep (less than 20 ft and oftentimes less) at mean low tide in many places. Someone long time ago wrote to describe Long Island Sound as a 'big bathtub' that runs from NYC to New London and this describes well how the water in the Sound churns around and while at one end the water moves into the Block Island Sound and at the other end the East River and eventually lower Manhattan/Hudson, in general the water in the Sound doesn't move around too much. In general things that are dumped in the Sound stay in the Sound and so bodies have been found along the CT shoreline over the years and usually those bodies were dumped not too far away in the Sound. My point for bringing this up is if you wanted to get rid of a body and not have it resurface in another section of the Sound IMO you would need to go beyond Montauk, NY and go beyond the Block Island Sound into the Atlantic. In order to accomplish this takes a good bit of time, good navigation skills and decent weather and a solid craft IMO as the Atlantic can be unpredictable and quite choppy. This isn't a casual daytrip either for an inexperienced sailor IMO either so unless FD or someone known to him was a good sailor this trip would take a bit of doing IMO.
The CT shoreline has long stretches of marshlands, state parks and town parks and much is residential housing along with commerical enterprises (google Shoreham Nuclear Plant which is located on the Sound). The major harbors in Fairfield County are Greenwich, Stamford, Norwalk and Bridgeport. There is a ferry that runs from Bridgeport to Port Jefferson on Long Island. In CT once you pass New London, CT (and Montauk, NY on Long Island) Long Island Sound turns into Block Island Sound and then once you pass through Block Island Sound you are in the Atlantic Ocean. There are some strong natural currents in the Long Island Sound near where it meets the Block Island Sound and there is an almost 'churning effect' that sometimes is visible.
Hope this helps to explain the coast a bit better for those not familiar with the region. I've tried to simplify the description of the Sound quite a bit to make it somewhat easier to understand so apologies to any experienced sailors out there that might read this! Experienced sailors can take a look at a nautical chart and grasp what I've been trying to explain about the area that while not a large area is varied and has its own complexities in terms of basic navigation.