Woman's body found off Kalapana

[Punatickz]

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Originally posted by MarkP

Ignoring all else, my gut tells me that if it took so long to find a body hanging in a tree despite two searches for two separate missing persons in the same area, it was a suicide who sought out a private place.

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Ignoring all else? That's a great way to conclude or speculate about a murder/suicide, by ignoring tons of evidence, ignoring a number of mistakes in the polices initial investigation of the scene, and opting for "gut feelings". Nice.

Also, a private place to commit suicide? Choosing an abandoned kipuka in the middle of the lava field? What? That just doesn't make any sense. "Ok so I killed my pregnant girlfriend, I'm going to leave all the evidence behind, and walk a full two miles across jagged lava to commit suicide in specific forest"

Here's what makes more sense: There was no police dog included in the search, and the police failed to search and grid the area like most homicide investigations would do.

Another theory is that police/ suspects feel the heat coming from all the sudden national media, and the body was recently planted in the tree to initiate a quick cover up to avoid the increased media response, discussions implying blotched police work, evidence being organized that indicate certain suspects, and the fact that popular opinion among members of the families and local citizens no longer view Boaz Johnson is a murderer.