Q-How is the lake looking?
The progress draining the lake seemed to go slower today. Not sure why. There is a pump pumping water into the outlet drain, and it seems to be working…so, I don’t know why it has slowed down.
Q-I understand from looking at the topo map that it has areas that could be 21 feet deep or more but I don't see the girls floating to those pockets from the shore if it were a swimming accident.
It is our understanding that that most of the lake is pretty shallow but there is a deeper section that the draining will not be able to get to and thus the FBI Dive team. I don’t know enough about how something might behave in the water to have an opinion on that part.
Q-How strong is the fbi presence? Have they taken over the case from the local PD?
Hard to say…IOWA DCI…Dept. of Criminal Investigation…are definitely here and se mot have a strong role.
Q-Do you know any more info on the dogs?
On Monday the evening …around 8pm or so…the family was lined up on the side of the lake near the highway and 2 dogs working separately were given a chance to sniff the family so they could identify and ignore their scents…which may have been on the girls.
I saw all this from a distance…this was right as I arrived.
Per Misty The dogs were then given a sent to smell taken from shoes of the girls. Both dogs took off tpwrds the bikes, then kept going to the waters edge in a wooded area of the shore.
Whether this is of any use to the investigation I don’t know. Our understanding is they are done with the dogs for now.
Q-What was the reason for the attic search?
The family thinks it was just LE being thorough.
Q-Did the girls go up there or was something up there LE wanted to look at?
Wylma…the grandmother…tells me the girls were not allowed up there, that it was kept locked.
I wouldn’t put a lot of emphasis on the attic…it doesn’t seem to be that big of a deal.
Q-Can Daniel think of anyone that may have been too interested in his daughter?
I asked, he said no.
Q
id he show pictures of her to someone of questionable character?
I don’t know.
Q-Did his daughter have unrestricted access to the computer at his home?
Lyric was living with grandma…but to the computer question I don’t know.
Q-Was she staying with him when she set up personal proflies on the internet?
Sorry…I don’t understand? Who are you talking about? I haven’t looked ionto the online life of any of these folks except a quick look at the FB pages of Misty, Dan and Dillin.
Q-Jim
Have you been on the ground as a reporter in previous missing children's cases?
The only major case was the Baby Lisa Irwin case last year…is how I found WS.
Q-If so, what are the similarities and differences you are witnessing firsthand with LE actions?
Similar to Baby Lisa:
No clear idea what happened…all theories have major problems.
Different:
Everything else…2 kids not one,
-bigger kids, not infant
-parents cooperating with LE at this point.
-no lawyers at this point
-parents talk to media, answer anything as far as we know.
To show the level of openness…all the stuff about Dan and the meth and the pending divorce I got from the family. They say they will answer anything to get the focus back on finding the kids.
Q-Do you think LE is leaning towards this being an abduction or an accident?
I don’t know...that will be clearer when the lake is drained.
Q-I am trying to visualize if the bikes were placed there by an abductor, how, if it were a man, "he" would take 2 bikes where they were placed without being seen?
You could probably do this from the wooded end of the lake. Hard to explain the geography in words…sorry!
Q-One was a purple bike, right?
I don’t know.
Q-You would think someone would have noticed a man on a purple bike but maybe there isn't that much traffic on the bike trails?
I cant judge how busy the area was …ive only seen it as a crime or accident scene.
Q-I also wish we had confirmation on the purse/bag. 3 different things have been reported
ver the fence on the highway side (this was discussed a lot in the first thread)
over the fence on the lake side
approx 20 feet away
It was between the shore and the fence.. In this stretch there are 2 femces…so it goes like this
Lake shore-fence-bike path-fence-hill up to highway…and the area is wooded.
The fence may not be that big of a deal. The fence between the shore and the bike path dosnt go all the way around and ends +/- 20 yards from where the bikes were found. You could just walk around it at that point. Again…its hard to dsescribe.
The fence between the highway and the bike goes most of the way around and is a bigger deal, though there is a big hole in it where a car crashed trough it a while back. It’s covered in vines but out could get through there….its probablty a couple hundred feet from the bikes.
Q-Are Misti and Dan Morrissey married to each other at this time or is he married to someone else (he mentioned a wife one night on TV)?
According to Misty she was not getting along with Dan when Lyric was born and they were not yet married and that’s why they used the maiden name Cook with Lyric. They then got married a couple years later, but are now separated….though they are definitely operating as a team during this crisis.
Q-Aunt Tammy on the JVM show just said that Dan and Misty have been separated for some time due to his meth addiction
I wonder if Jim Spellman got any of this info during his phone call with Daniel today.
We been working on all this for a couple days, but yes…I got this and we’ve been working to confirm and understand its relevance before reporting.
Q-Aunt Tammy went on to say that the dogs went into the woods to where you could park a car back there.
The geography is hard to explain, btu you could get a car back into the area past the woods or even drive a car to where the bikes are, but you would certainly be noticed if anyone came by. Maybe google sat maps would help?
Q-How far away were the washrooms in the park from where the bikes were found?
Other side of the lake…no where near really
Q-I asked this a few pgs back-could the girls have gone on a boat-are there houses on this lake-no answer yet! Although last night I think they pulled a boat dock out of the water!
There are houses on this lake yes…as for boats I don’t know. Maybe rowboats or kayaks or little sunfish or something. It is not a big lake and much of it ios taken up by a bigish island. There were 2 small docks that they pulled out of the water yesterday . They are now sitting on the grass next to the lake.
