I didn't say they didn't look at other parks. I said that this was the park that they stopped looking. At around 2ish. The bikes were not found (that we know of) until around 4.
What made this park more likely than others? Because one guy said he saw two girls on bikes? A mid-summer's day that is not an extraordinary amount of evidence IMO to stop. If the opportunity presented itself at other parks I'm sure the same answer could have been given there.
This is assuming that Liz and Lyric were not the only two girls in Evansdale who rode bikes.
Per Grandma
And so it was at 11:30, they asked me if they could go for a short bike ride, and I said yes. And they`ve done this millions of times. And they`ve never, never went that far. I could go outside and yell their names, and they would eventually hear me.
And this day, they just didn`t come back. And so K, Elizabeth`s brother, he`s 12 -- I hopped in my car because the dad came home, and I went searching Elk Run.
We were down by Meyers Lake. We drove all over every little park and Evansdale, Elk Run, every mentionable place, downtown area. And we couldn`t find nobody.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1207/17/ng.01.html
Per TB
When my mother and I, the grandmother who was babysitting, when my mother and I went on our search for them, and this was at about a
quarter to 3 -- and keep in mind the last they were seen was at 11:30 a.m., when they told mom they were going on the bike ride. So that is the last time they were for sure seen. And now, it`s going on to -- it`s getting close to being a quarter to 3.
We stop at Meyers Lake. I said, "Mom, drive me to Meyer Lake." I had Elizabeth`s older brother who`s 12, K (ph), with us. And I just jumped out and started asking random strangers, "Have you seen two little girls?" Gave them the description, the colors of the bikes, and possibly what they were wearing.
And one man stepped forward and said, "Yes, I seen them going east on the bike trail at about 2:30."
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1207/16/ijvm.01.html
BROUSSEAU: I did not find them. As I was saying, a man, who I approached and started asking questions, said he had seen the girls going east on the bike trail. It`s a small lake. It wraps around on the south side of the lake.
With my sister
Heather, the mother of Elizabeth Collins, the 8-year- old,
she called the police at 2 p.m. By 3 p.m., Evansdale police were there, and the deputies from Waterloo were all swarming the place. They went on -- they drove their vehicles right onto the bike trail. We watched them go to the site. They found the bicycles. They contacted us and said, "We have -- we have the bicycles. We have Elizabeth`s purse and no girls."
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1207/16/ijvm.01.html
So we are to believe that Grandma and K went searching all over town. Then somehow TB came into the picture at 2:45 where they then went to a park that Grandma and K had gone to during their initial search. Stayed there because 15 minutes earlier a random stranger saw two girls on bikes. Then 15 minutes later the park was swarmed and it took an hour for the police to drive around the trail?
so I hope you don't mind me (I know it's a pain in the butt) asking for a link or anything that may get me up to date with what's happening in the thread and the case. 
lease: TIA!
