I’m not sure what thread to use for this. AND, the following is ENTIRELY conjecture.
I’ve been asking myself: If I were TH and needed a place to hide a body where it might never be found, what kind of location would I choose?
Granted, the immediate neighborhood is quite rural, with plenty of underbrush, steep ravines, and forests which could hide a body forever. But that’s where searchers would look first, right? It’s doubtful I’d go for someplace “just off the road” or “obvious.” I’d also stay away from places popular with hikers or hunters.
I would probably also stay off of Sauvie Island. It’s flat, my vehicle might be noticed (at that time of year) by locals. Plus, since (IMO) TH is a control freak, she wouldn’t use a site (the water) where the discovery of a body is open to chance possibilities: coming to the surface; being snagged by a fishing hook; washing up on a sandbar.
Okay, this is where things get weird. As I thought about “where,” I had an image of a wolf in a creek. Trust me, I am not a psychic and generally believe such claims to be rubbish. But, what the heck. I searched for Wolf Creek in TH’s (then) neck of the woods. Found out the Sunset Highway was formerly the Wolf Creek Highway … found out there’s a Wolf Creek on the way toward the coast. But nothing immediately accessible from the Skyline area. Gave up.
So I started looking at “off the beaten track” yet easy-to-get-to steep ravines. (In the PNW, these are about 100% likely to have a creek.) I studied topo maps and discovered a number creeks/ravines running generally north/south just off Dutch Canyon Road, west of Scappoose. Then, I just about fell off my chair: One of these ravines is the watershed called Wolf Creek, and it appears to be fairly accessible via Rabinsky Road (which intersects with Dutch Canyon Road).
While there are some private homes up Rabinsky Road, these very quickly give way to commercially logged forests; many logging roads. If she DID make her way close to the Wolf Creek ravine, she would be assured no logging concern would find Ky; logging buffers along streams prevent that. The lower part of this area is not popular with bicyclists or hikers. (I checked trail organizations, hoping to find better info on side roads; Wolf Creek does not appear to be along a recommended trail or route.)
This area also “tracks” with alleged cell phone pings, which probably ‘talked’ with the Scappoose tower. (See previous discussions.)
If you look at the following maps, there appears to be a road (probably a logging road) that “y”s off of Rabinsky toward Wolf creek. There are two more logging roads that go straight toward the creek from Rabinsky a little beyond the “y” … one of which appears to be blocked by a berm (at least at the time the satellite image was captured).
Depending on her route that morning (Did she drop Kiara with DDS and/or take them both to her house? Where was Ky? Was he drugged and stashed at the house between the time she left the school and before she made her alibi appearances? If so, did she have to pick him up?) With too many stops, Wolf Creek doesn’t work. But, according the MapQuest, the timeline is just as valid as the far end of Sauvie Island.
Am I nuts?
Topographic
http://www.topoquest.com/map.php?la...83&zoom=4&map=auto&coord=d&mode=zoomin&size=l
Google satellite
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.7560979,-122.9586044,1527m/data=!3m1!1e3