So hi everyone, I just came across this case a couple months ago and I am fascinated and obsessed. I've been going through every piece of evidence and theory to try to piece this together because it's one of the most confusing and interesting cases I've ever seen. one of the things that makes this case so difficult is that almost every piece of evidence is second hand. We only assume which way he drove on the back roads that night from Canby. We only know what he supposedly said to his parents from their testimony. We only assume which way he walked from the scent dogs Trail. This case is 90% assumptions or hearsay and I find that interesting.
After reading through all the theories I saw a random post on this thread where someone asked a question that I found interesting and had never heard before or since. Credit to that person I'm sorry I didn't get their name. So we know that the scent dogs followed his scent through a portion of the river and through to the other side, making it seem as if he didn't fall in the river and drown but kept going.Then the scent abruptly stopped at some point on the other side of the river which leads everybody to assume he either got into some sort of vehicle at that point, stopping the scent OR the scent dogs had just reached their threshold OR the scent ended there because that's where he stopped and died (but where are his remains?)But this other poster mentioned:what if he turned around? And that got me to thinking -what if he had gone through the river out to the other side, then at this point or shortly beforehand was when he said the infamous oh s***. That is when I believe he dropped or lost his phone and couldn't find it in the Darkness, I don't think that's particularly when he died so let's say he loses his phone, he gets to the river through the other side then says to himself this is too hard to see where I'm going I now have no phone and no real idea where I am I'm going to try to go back the way I came, back to the safety of my car. And he tried to retrace his steps back from the point where the dogs lost their scent and that's why the trail ended abruptly? Could he have just tried to retrace his steps back to the car as best he could and the dogs lost the scent not because the trail ended there but because he turned around and took the same approximate route back and in this case his remains are somewhere along that scent route but closer to where his car was found, then previously thought? what are people's thoughts on this Theory?
As far as the drowning theory... it's probably crazy but this Google Earth image has been bothering the hell out of me. This is an image of the Mud Creek area from September 2008 according to Google Earth (where apparentlythey have been focusing on). I've circled where it really looks to me like a body face down in the water with its arms spread out like wings floating.Dark hair at the top, a white shirt or something billowing out of the water and spread out/ vague legs floating downwards. I'm probably seeing something that certainly isn't there but at the very least it's some sort of odd anomaly no??
I don’t think that’s a body or at least him what are the chances a satellite image gets taken of him and at that time
You’d be surprised
You sure it’s not just foam or anything
You’re right I was thinking of Google street view instead of google earth you’re right it would be rare for the satellite to pick it up
I don’t think he’s gonna be found anytime
Most likely been animal food for a long long time
Sad but probably true
I might be crazy lol. But I figure hey I've seen stories where things were found just by scanning Google Earth so yes it probably is nothing but the more I look at it the more it just looks off
Given that’s so close to land, I’m not buying this.
I must be blind bc I dont see anything in the google earth image