01-28-2014, 12:44 PM
HereÔs another inconsistency with the suicide theory IMHO, interested to hear if you agree or why not: [
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ItÔs a small thing, but ... I would like to know if Bo was found with any kind of bag to carry stuff, because the police said he had nothing but the book that had the note.
Bo was found 1-2 miles mauka from the camp, which is a hike over lava to the kipuka.
He also had to take the rope with him. A composition book and a rope.
He had a backpack, but he threw it down on a trail near camp, and instead (if no bag was found), he hiked over lava carrying rope and a writing book in his hands (unless he had a big pocket). I guess he could wrap the rope and have it over shoulder, but those books are awkward to carry. I use those composition books myself for meeting notes and writing and I put them in a tote because they are awkward.
Of course he could manage them, but I donÔt understand deliberately throwing the backpack on the ground before heading out with the rope and the book.
No water bottle or canteen either. End of the line or not, I would take water to hike over lava, just to get me there. Second nature.
I donÔt know, itÔs just the guys I know who hike around in the woods, like my sons, always grab a backpack if they have stuff to take with them. You want your hands free except maybe a flashlight at night or a walking stick.
He had no flashlight either, which means he hiked up by day.
He had to hike up there after the last outgoing or received incoming call on his phone, too bad the police wonÔt say when that happened.
The police said in the HT article I linked that they conducted an aerial search with helicopters of six square miles. The place must have been buzzing with choppers.
IsnÔt it weird that he would hike in daylight across bare lava flow in plain sight, to this remote kipuka? There was a kipuka area right by the camp, where the backpack was. Presumably with trees. Why go way off and risk getting caught hiking up there?
He wasnÔt trying to hide his suicide. He expected to be found because he wrote a note, so why not just pick a tree at hand?
It makes no sense to me.
Maybe Sarah could say whether this sounds like how Bo would act.
I realize he would have been in an atypical state of mind, but certain things are more in the realm of automatic, second nature.
As weird as the call from Ed is and as damning, I keep coming back to the way BoÔs stuff was dumped and he was found with zero effects on him other than the notebook, and no signs of being in that kipuka much longer than it took to end his life. That part sounds like someone who is grabbed and then taken somewhere.
Can anyone tell me if there is any way to drive a lifted truck with lava tires over that terrain, like to the kipuka? Is it walk in only?
It would be great if the police would release to BoÔs parents an inventory of exactly what was on him and with him at the end.
]ItÔs a small thing, but ... I would like to know if Bo was found with any kind of bag to carry stuff, because the police said he had nothing but the book that had the note.
Bo was found 1-2 miles mauka from the camp, which is a hike over lava to the kipuka.
He also had to take the rope with him. A composition book and a rope.
He had a backpack, but he threw it down on a trail near camp, and instead (if no bag was found), he hiked over lava carrying rope and a writing book in his hands (unless he had a big pocket). I guess he could wrap the rope and have it over shoulder, but those books are awkward to carry. I use those composition books myself for meeting notes and writing and I put them in a tote because they are awkward.
Of course he could manage them, but I donÔt understand deliberately throwing the backpack on the ground before heading out with the rope and the book.
No water bottle or canteen either. End of the line or not, I would take water to hike over lava, just to get me there. Second nature.
I donÔt know, itÔs just the guys I know who hike around in the woods, like my sons, always grab a backpack if they have stuff to take with them. You want your hands free except maybe a flashlight at night or a walking stick.
He had no flashlight either, which means he hiked up by day.
He had to hike up there after the last outgoing or received incoming call on his phone, too bad the police wonÔt say when that happened.
The police said in the HT article I linked that they conducted an aerial search with helicopters of six square miles. The place must have been buzzing with choppers.
IsnÔt it weird that he would hike in daylight across bare lava flow in plain sight, to this remote kipuka? There was a kipuka area right by the camp, where the backpack was. Presumably with trees. Why go way off and risk getting caught hiking up there?
He wasnÔt trying to hide his suicide. He expected to be found because he wrote a note, so why not just pick a tree at hand?
It makes no sense to me.
Maybe Sarah could say whether this sounds like how Bo would act.
I realize he would have been in an atypical state of mind, but certain things are more in the realm of automatic, second nature.
As weird as the call from Ed is and as damning, I keep coming back to the way BoÔs stuff was dumped and he was found with zero effects on him other than the notebook, and no signs of being in that kipuka much longer than it took to end his life. That part sounds like someone who is grabbed and then taken somewhere.
Can anyone tell me if there is any way to drive a lifted truck with lava tires over that terrain, like to the kipuka? Is it walk in only?
It would be great if the police would release to BoÔs parents an inventory of exactly what was on him and with him at the end.
