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Joseph Scott Morgan

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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing: Neighbor Speaks Out

People just don't go in there and randomly dump stuff.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing: Neighbor Speaks Out

They do have the thing broken up into grids.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing: Neighbor Speaks Out

You have equipment that runs over the stuff to kind of pack it down, and that creates an absolute nightmare for investigators when they go out there to begin to search.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing: Neighbor Speaks Out

Yeah.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing: Neighbor Speaks Out

So as you're seeing these ridges, Nancy, you can see the composition out here is, to say the very least, is uneven.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing: Neighbor Speaks Out

And also this rock aggregate that's there is going to create quite a problem if you want to do a cast.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing: Neighbor Speaks Out

But one thing that we can draw

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing: Neighbor Speaks Out

from the so-called ridges is the idea of a wheelbase.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing: Neighbor Speaks Out

This is something that we use when we're trying to assess tire tracks on motor vehicles.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing: Neighbor Speaks Out

Now, obviously, this is not a motor vehicle, but if you begin to think about something, say, for instance, like a wheelchair, all right, you've got two parallel lines that are running in one specific direction.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing: Neighbor Speaks Out

As a matter of fact, you take a look at it, it stays quite linear.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing: Neighbor Speaks Out

It doesn't curve.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing: Neighbor Speaks Out

It doesn't stay off the center here.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing: Neighbor Speaks Out

The idea with wheelbase, though, Nancy, is to try to assess what the distance is between the center mass of where the actual wheels are making contact in those ruts.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing: Neighbor Speaks Out

Let's use the term ruts because that's a term that we would normally use.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing: Neighbor Speaks Out

So with that information alone, you can take that and you can begin to assess what product out there would create these images or these ruts that are being left behind that can be imaged.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing: Neighbor Speaks Out

Can you actually say that this originated from this particular item?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing: Neighbor Speaks Out

Probably not, but it can at least put you in the ballpark.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing: Neighbor Speaks Out

Now, I have to add this one comment here.

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
Savannah Guthrie Mom Missing: Neighbor Speaks Out

Because of the level or lack thereof of security at the scene, we don't necessarily know what left these behind or who is more accurate.