I agree that any private property owned by the senior Smith's would be a good place to check but without any solid evidence of involvement by DSSr for a search warrant, I suppose LE's hands were tied on that. I would have liked to see all the vehicles at Rose Blvd checked with cadaver dogs as well but I don't think that happened either. I believe there were dogs at the drug raid but I'm not sure just what type of dogs they were and how limited the warrant was to search the home and property on that occasion. It must have been fairly limited because LE were not there that long.
An old AF base sounds like an interesting location. Perhaps kids growing up in the area would know of such a place and there may be secluded areas where they might have hung out and would remember if a secluded place within a densely populated city was required on the fly after or during a crime.
And while I do believe Michelle's family spent a lot of time with search groups around the area of the condo, I'm not sure LE ever really did a full grid search of the area. I only know of a couple of locations that were reported in MSM where LE were searching. I think both were close to the area where Caylee Anthony's remains were found?
I think any swampy, gator infested areas with easy car access over some type of bridge would be a good place to look. We had a cell phone apparently tossed off a bridge, why not a body?
MOO
The Police would have had plenty of probable cause to obtain a warrant to search everywhere DS frequented intimately. Both his condo and his parents' house together with the adjacent property would have been and were among the very first places they searched. That is so much so that they found some growing marijuana in DSSr's property if I remember correctly.
I don't think that the default assumption here ought to be that if they look and didn't find anything related to Michelle's disappearance in DS's world, that is because the police did not search it or did not search extensively enough, but rather because there was simply nothing there incriminating
that they found.
Lastly I don't think that there's a shortage of places that have not been searched that could conceivably be a reasonable place where to hide Michelle's body, rather I think there's a finite amount of resources to conduct such searches which is of course the real problem here, which brings me to another point I was making earlier:
There need to be efforts to organize well defined searches, implement information gathering strategies, re-engage the media, and pressure the Police. All of those components are not simply necessary, they're crucial. That is no small task and it requires well defined and focused organizational objectives on different fronts since there are many practical countervailing forces pushing against those primary objectives. By the nature of the task it can only be done coherently from the top down and not vice versa and that is the singular fundamental problem here where efforts are the issue.
Now, were searches are an important component of a larger strategy, where individual efforts are consequential in pinpointing this location or that one, it nevertheless requires a command structure that is capable of gathering resources and make use of them effectively among many other considerations, and that is because this must be a
top down operation in order to work as intended, and building such an organizational apparatus would have been and would still be where I would concentrate my efforts first and foremost if this was within my power to decide and to organize.
Lastly that above was to say that while we bicker about DS, while we occasionally look at some maps, this situation has already reached a crisis stage where finding Michelle was the primary objective, and as time goes by resources and opportunities become scarcer and scarcer, and were this continues to be largely an understandably amateurish exercise on the part of many there needs to be a time out for some adults in charge in order to ponder a change in strategy where demonstrably what has been done in nearly two years has failed to produce any significant results.
JMO
