Found Deceased TX - Leanne Bearden, 33, Garden Ridge, 17 Jan 2014 #11

[cluciano63]

They may have to admit that no dogs were taken close enough to the area.
And if she had entered a different way, there would be no trail to find, IMO.

I wonder if all fingerprints on rope, etc. were hers. I do not think LE would "close" a case without being certain. I feel like maybe there was a note, as was rumored at one point, and that pending tox won't change much. Even if she is found to have something in her system, they probably still would be unlikely to call it murder. It really depends on what they had to work with, IMO.

If family persists and demands more investigation, that may mean there wasn't a note, or any signs (to them) of suicide. I guess we will have to see.

 

[mck16]

ETA - Went for a walk...Carrying a rope???

They were climbers. Could have been in Josh's back pack and that is why she took it. jm

 

[ScarlettScarpetta]

They may have to admit that no dogs were taken close enough to the area.
And if she had entered a different way, there would be no trail to find, IMO.

I wonder if all fingerprints on rope, etc. were hers. I do not think LE would "close" a case without being certain. I feel like maybe there was a note, as was rumored at one point, and that pending tox won't change much. Even if she is found to have something in her system, they probably still would be unlikely to call it murder. It really depends on what they had to work with, IMO.

If family persists and demands more investigation, that may mean there wasn't a note, or any signs (to them) of suicide. I guess we will have to see.

I don't think you get fingerprints off a rope.

I pm'd SARX to ask about the dogs and asked they come and help us understand.
Hopefully they will.

This is tough. There is just so much that does not make sense.

 

[ScarlettScarpetta]

They were climbers. Could have been in Josh's back pack and that is why she took it. jm

No.. She used to carry a jump rope with her on their trips. That is what we have wondered if she used..

 

[mck16]

No.. She used to carry a jump rope with her on their trips. That is what we have wondered if she used..

I know that. She also used to wear scarves so she could have used that. Have they gone into such detail as to the how of it? I don't think so. jmo

 

[cluciano63]

I don't think you get fingerprints off a rope.

I pm'd SARX to ask about the dogs and asked they come and help us understand.
Hopefully they will.

This is tough. There is just so much that does not make sense.

I think fingerprints can be taken from a rope. Seems like they be taken from most anything now. But JMO.

 

[ScarlettScarpetta]

I know that. She also used to wear scarves so she could have used that. Have they gone into such detail as to the how of it? I don't think so. jmo

I cannot go here.

I just can't.

 

[Backwoods]

Oh no, oh no! I couldn't find Leanne in "Missing" and my heart leaped, thinking "She's found, she's OK!" Then I saw the thread label -- deceased. Oh, no. I have not had the time to catch up, read what has happened... so sad to hear the news though.

 

[Spark45]

I know from personal experience you can't rationalize or make sense of a suicide. It's not this well planned and logical curtain call like in the movies. Suicide will never add up to a logically thinking person, because logically thinking people know it doesn't actually solve anything.

There is this forest in Japan called Aokigahara Forest. Hundreds of people attempt suicide there every year. They have to send crews out for body recovery on a regular basis. It doesn't appear Leanne ever visited Japan, but maybe she heard about it since she was so well traveled. I think those poor people figure they'll eventually be found, but at least it won't be by anyone they love.

Rest in peace, dear girl. My love to her family. I promise the pain in your heart eventually fades to a bearable dull ache.

 

[birpu]

Well, I haven't felt like posting today. But reading everyone's thoughts about Leanne kind of made me think. I'm having real trouble believing in the suicide thing, but if that is the case, maybe seeing the entire trip abroad in another light would help.

What I mean is, taking a two-year trip around the world is fairly extreme. Maybe the trip itself was a way to mask whatever was going on inside her psyche. Every day you wake up to some new adventure. A travel problem to solve. New, different people. New sights. A destination to achieve. This would be a really effective way to push aside depression. For two years you keep it away. Because you are problem-solving, and constantly challenged by new highs.

And then it is over. And there is nothing between you and the feelings any more. And they all come back with a vengeance.

Maybe the trip itself is a big clue to her state of mind.

 

[Lilibet]

Sorry, That does not fit. Dogs are trained to follow her scent. That is what they do. They should have found her. They should have.

I hope that A SAR person will pop up and help.

BBM

Hugs to you, Scarlet. I know you worked very hard behind the scenes on this case, so it has got to be unbelievably frustrating and devastating for you. I hope we can get a SAR person over here too. I think we all are confused about who searched where, and what the dogs are capable of. I know they are good, but they can't be infallible.

We really, really wanted to think that everything possible was done to find Leanne. Apparently the outcome wouldn't have been different, but her body would have been found sooner. That she was out there for weeks is really hard to bear.

To keep things in perspective personally, I think about Lynne Spalding who lay dying, probably for days, in a hospital stairwell in SF, because a long list of professional people dropped a multitude of balls. Those were people, not dogs. :banghead: At some point I'm sure I will get to a place of understanding and peace about Leanne's tragic death, but Lynne's will always anger me. Absolutely inexcusable.

Found Deceased CA - Lynne Spalding, 57, San Francisco, 21-September-2013 - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community

 

[2Hope4]

Bearden’s husband and his parents reported her missing Jan. 17, after she left her in-laws’ home to go for a walk and hadn’t returned four hours later. A search began.
On Jan. 22, about 45 people searched the area where she was last seen. Three days later, 145 highly-trained search and rescue professionals from more than 17 agencies divided 23 square miles of Garden Ridge and Comal County countryside into grids and searched each one repeatedly.
They found nothing.

http://m.herald-zeitung.com/mobile/...cle_e427b292-95cf-11e3-a440-001a4bcf887a.html

Maybe with so many different agencies, communication was lost between them all? I don't know.

 

[Elainera]

I'm sure it's already been posted but I just saw this update on the Facebook page. http://m.herald-zeitung.com/mobile/...cle_e427b292-95cf-11e3-a440-001a4bcf887a.html


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Well this article says

"The case remains under investigation."

So not closed?

Another sloppy reporting? :facepalm:

Sorry, That does not fit. Dogs are trained to follow her scent. That is what they do. They should have found her. They should have.

I hope that A SAR person will pop up and help.

You could pm sarx, maybe he can help.

 

[mck16]

Well, I haven't felt like posting today. But reading everyone's thoughts about Leanne kind of made me think. I'm having real trouble believing in the suicide thing, but if that is the case, maybe seeing the entire trip abroad in another light would help.

What I mean is, taking a two-year trip around the world is fairly extreme. Maybe the trip itself was a way to mask whatever was going on inside her psyche. Every day you wake up to some new adventure. A travel problem to solve. New, different people. New sights. A destination to achieve. This would be a really effective way to push aside depression. For two years you keep it away. Because you are problem-solving, and constantly challenged by new highs.

And then it is over. And there is nothing between you and the feelings any more. And they all come back with a vengeance.

Maybe the trip itself is a big clue to her state of mind.

Not that it matters now I have wondered this all along. I would love to know her history prior to the trip. We she on anti depressants? Had she had anxiety attacks before? Just things like that. Josh was very protective toward her. jmo

 

[Snoopy1]

My husband just said something that I didn't really even think about...
Regarding the smell: it's been REALLY cold here since she disappeared. Like hasn't been above 50 in weeks. Maybe that's what kept the smell from being noticed earlier...

Just a thought.




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[ahintexas]

“The area was so wooded that you could have walked right by her without even seeing her,” the chief said.

I am curious how she was in fact found? I have read workman and I have read homeowner.

If it was a workman what would he be doing out in that 'so wooded area' and be able to see her since the chief said you could walk right by her without seeing her?
TIA

exactly what I was thinking.

 

[Advocate1]

ETA - Went for a walk...Carrying a rope???

This post is almost insulting. She had a backpack with her.

 

[dodie20]

That is the main part that strikes me as odd. I am believing that she likely did commit suicide… but at the same point, I've never heard of a hanging that wasn't at the home. Hanging is so dramatic. LIke you truly would want to be found, and found quickly. Why choose that method if the location wasn't at home?

let me try to explain this from my point of view, (which is not like everybody else's for sure), but deep depression and suicidal thoughts is a very solitary existence and some people wouldn't want to drag loved ones into their pain. It's a very dark, negative thing and they don't want to spread the feelings, so to speak. And like I said earlier, there might be a certain allure into walking into the solitary woods and being alone? I'm female and admit that at my darkest time, these were my own fleeting thoughts. just walk into the woods and be done with this world or walk and walk until I literally dropped dead from a heart attack or something. I have a lifelong friend who told me that she grabbed her husband's gun and drove and drove, contemplating shooting herself. Women do have dark thoughts, and once they get to the point of not wanting to be 'here' anymore, they're not much different than men. People are people.

 

[mck16]

exactly what I was thinking.

Trees are really special to those of us who have them. After such a weird winter he may have been out 'checking' them. Any winter damage, etc. But, I have also read that he was going to an out building. So, I don't know. jmo

 

[cluciano63]

If the search party for that area did not approach this particular property for some reason...do we want them to have to admit it, if it was a family group?