kittythehare
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They may well have procured a geofence warrant which will show every phone that was in that vicinity at that time.There is not much concrete location data they can get from the phone network.
Remember they have her phone - all the other ones in and around the village they don't
They will know which mast the phones were connected to - probably all the same one in a rural area and that data will only give the direction the phone was located in.
About 10 years ago there was a local to me court case involving phone location and the only thing that coudl be said by the specilaist in court was that the phone in question was in my village and therefore most likely so too was the suspect but they could not say where in the village and nor could they say whether the phone and hence also the suspect moved from say house A to house B on the other side of the village and back again or stayed in house A.
Obviously if some of the phones have their location services recording turned on (Android is off by default) then they are in with a better chance if they can get google to reveal the details - same possibly for Apple.
This is speculation, there is no MSM or police report to support this theory.