Includes video of Drew walking through that part of the woods.
July 12 2017 rbbm.
The pain of 2 Iowa girls' killings remains, but resolve in Evansdale only grows
"Collins is on his way to the site where hunters stumbled upon Elizabeth and Lyric, resolving part of the mystery of the girls' fates but leaving unknown who took them and what happened. The case made national news and forever changed the lives of the girls' families, neighbors and Iowa law enforcement officers involved in the case. In just the past few months, authorities began a new approach in their investigation of the killings.
Collins doesn't like to make this trip.
He looks into the forest.
“It gets worse,” he says.
He walks through knee-high grass and fallen trees, looking left and right for marks that remind him of the spot. But the earth has shifted over time.
Seven minutes after leaving his pickup, he finds it.
“You could be screaming, and no one could hear you,” Collins says. “I think about that, for a little girl to be down here with a stranger they don’t know. And then you wonder what they went through.”
Collins was first brought here about two years after his daughter and niece disappeared. This is his fifth visit.
"I would never come out here alone. It’s kind of scary being out here," Collins said. "To me, this place is not a peaceful place. We can only imagine what happened to them here."
Collins said he thinks Elizabeth and Lyric were alive when they were brought here — it seems impossible to him that they could have been carried.
“I think about how bad the bugs were and how scary it must have been for them,” Collins said. “Who could do this to two little girls?"
