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  • From: Lois Guyon <laguyon2@yahoo.com>
  • To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [MSAR] Request for Help--Brandon Swanson Search
  • Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:57:18 -0800 (PST)

In addition to what crops were in the fields, not only at the time of
disappearance, but subsequently, what other types of vegetation are in the
area?  In the middle of May, most mid-western crops would not yet be planted
or would just be sprouting.  Even hay fields would not have been high at that
time of year. 

Have river rescue/searchers been used in the river?  What is the history of
water levels in the river and streams in the search area? 



----- Original Message ----
From: Una Smith <una.smith@att.net>
To: Mounted search and rescue <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Fri, January 29, 2010 6:06:49 PM
Subject: Re: [MSAR] Request for Help--Brandon Swanson Search

I too am wondering about the cell phone call, and if anyone obtained
cell tower records.  If he was walking while talking, the records may
reflect his direction of travel.  Also, they would validate (or not)
the story he told his father about getting the car stuck where it was
found and walking from there.

What crops are grown in this area?  And how tall were they when the
subject disappeared?

My experience digging stuff out of fertile fields is limited, but I
have found clothing that is still recognizable years later.  So I
would look for pieces of cloth in fields that are freshly plowed or
freshly harvested.  However, Irv has a point about whether someone
could drive a tractor or plow over a reasonably new corpse without
noticing.

Is it known what the subject was wearing when last seen?

Would the subject's cell phone give a good signal by metal detector? 

I would want to be sure the dogs are trained not to alert on dead
woodchuck or other field critter.

    Una
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