The Police searched Julie Hogg's house a number of times only for her body to be found under the bath three months later. Did they search the woods between Car Dyke and the A15? They thought this area may be significant back in October when the vegetation had grown. If I were searching now, revisiting this area would be top of my list.
Did they search Julie Hogg's house with cadaver dogs?
These officers working cadaver dogs are standing just yards away from the gates next to the fields / bridge over Car Dyke.
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I think vegetation would be dying back in October, and probably maintained year round if it is a field used for keeping horses.
For police to search the area I'm sure it was intelligence led, with the known cell site/GPS data of his 410 steps, and they wouldn't have done a half-hearted job, skirting around the woods. They would have been paying attention to areas that presented an opportunity to kill without being seen and then hide her body temporarily or permanently.
I think it's a good suggestion, a spot that ticks a lot of boxes, but if he killed her there I think we need to find explanations for the other facts to see where they fit in -
1. his phone was off for 1.5 hours before he phoned Sarah. why would he need 1.5 hours if he left her there? it's a long time for someone to get suspicious and notice an empty car parked up where it shouldn't be.
2. Sarah told police he told her his phone was dead and dropped into the footwell of the car. We need to ask what does the phone dropping into the footwell of the car have to do with anything? He can just pick it up again, but not
if he's driving during the time the phone was off.
3. he admitted
driving out to the Fens. (per
@helenvic - "The jurors and ScW were shown onscreen maps of
the route ScW was driving according to available phone data timings. He had to admit that this showed that he drove to the Fens. The prosecutor said, “Do you understand, Mr. Walker, that you have never said this before?”)
4. after the call to Sarah finished it took him 20 minutes to drive to McDonalds. Where was he in Gunthorpe when he made the call and what was he doing there? If he was driving from the beginning of the phone call it took him 29 minutes to get to McDonalds.
5. He
returned to the lock-up for 10 minutes.
6. Around 11pm
both parents went to the lock-up for 20 minutes.
7. 19th - at 2:47am Scott
returned to the lock-up for 13 minutes, 172 steps.
8. 8 minutes after being at the junction of Fane Rd/Fulbridge Rd he'd parked and walked 8 steps. His phone didn't move for 2.5 hours. Why would he walk across the A15 with a spade in hand when he could just as easily have left his phone in the lock-up for safety and then driven to his destination, without looking suspiciously like he was out digging a hole at night? The phone is most likely being used as a decoy, the 8 steps was to put it somewhere, and he's driven away.
9. He
returned to the lock-up for 23 minutes.
10. 20th -
Both parents at the lock-up for 5 minutes before their trip to Cowbit leading to Glinton, followed by 1 hour 20 mins of unexplained activity - and it's most likely this night he's referring to driving out on the A47 with both their phones disconnected. Why did Sarah feign being asleep if there was nothing incriminating done in that time?
MOO
