I imagine that if police think now is the time to search the landfill that they have good reasons for that and that they think there's a decent chance of finding Corrie there.
But...what if he's not there? Sulsar seem to have done a brilliant job of searches of the 3 mile radius around the BM mast. If a voluntary car journey became possible, with the destination being someone's home, then do you think it would be worth Sulsar expanding searches to likely spots on roads exiting BM and Mildenhall? I see images of wide expanses with searchers and sticks, but I can't help thinking that somewhere closer to a roadside might be more likely, and there are a few places on the southern roads from BM that I've already seen on the map that look search-worthy...there would be more that would come out of a similar thing if it was done for Mildenhall, but that would be going out of the 3 mile radius zone. I think it would be much briefer searches at each potential location, and there's also a fly-tipping site that's worth checking out if that's still there. These are mostly locations that would be something like ten metres by 100 metres, as opposed to searching deep into forests and heathland. The locations that I've seen images of searchers going through don't even seem to match the working theory that Sulsar say they are using to define search locations (though I'm sure the images can be very deceptive due to narrow field of view).
The last thing I want is to sound like I'm telling the experts how to do their job, when I have zero expertise in this area. But also the areas I identified should be reasonably valid as they're derived from the Soham case along with the logic of carrying/moving an 11 stone weight out of a car/vehicle. And if you combined this with Sulsar's expert knowledge and their drones then they should be able to take the same logic trail and work out even better search areas along those routes. It wouldn't be like doing a 30 mile radius inch-by-inch search, so each direction ought to be doable in a day or two with those 100 searchers, drones, and cadaver dogs, because they'd be highly targeted locations albeit further out from the BM mast.
I mean, we don't even know for a fact that there were three men on heathland searching for a phone, and if they were they could have been ramblers who were out the previous weekend and had good reason to have maybe lost a phone there. Surely what I'm suggesting has as much rationale as that search region? :-/
