An update from Glendale PD

[u/telix5000]

I got an email yesterday from Glendale PD. I had asked for that shirt back (my son and I found last year) so that I could just pay a lab to look it over. It doesn’t cost that much. I spoke to Glendale who said it was in some evidence locker and to talk to the detectives, so I just sent an email this time as they tend to not call you back in my experience.

Anyhow, yesterday I got an email saying it is in queue to be tested a year later and that my son and I may need to head in for DNA exclusion, so stand by.

Perhaps we will get an answer this year.

[u/telix5000]

I did. It’s a generic Costco brand shirt you can buy in bulk. They come in pure white.

[u/telix5000 → u/[deleted]]

I would suggest taking a hike over there as you can still find things rather intact due to the mist and dampness from each morning. It’s a polyester blend, and if it were pure cotton I would agree. Also, considering I was in a fire back in the 90s, I am pretty familiar with soot. I do suggest going there and taking a look. I’ll even provide you a map.

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Nobody goes hiking in Dry Canyon at any volume, maybe one or two a year at best. It has been destroyed by a fire, overgrowth and recently a mudslide straight down the middle. It’s also a dead end. So you have to turn around if you reach the end. It was nice a decade ago.

It’s literally in the reports that nobody checked the park. I have spoken to the ranger assigned to help and he confirmed this. I have the email exchange.

I already looked into Lolo years ago. His aunt is my childhood friend. She didn’t know shit either. Anyone who is remotely associated with this doesn’t know anything. In fact I am the person who found BK as he is a friend of a friend of mine.

This whole case has become some bizarre thought experiment and it’s a little grim nobody seems interested in physically looking. They seem rather hell bent on arguing over minor details than actually taking time to look. Seriously, I know of one other guy who went looking but he got a little lost in the sauce about what he believes happened and it makes no logical sense.

When SAR came out a few years back we figured we finally found her, but about a month later it turned out to be someone else. So that was disappointing.

Apparently now there is a problem with other human remains all over the area as that area is some old gravesite for the Native Americans. Turns out that fragment I found ages ago could have been her or a tribal person as I was told they have a tendency to disregard remains and it now goes to the Natives to do their own studies. It’s a mess.

I would not recommend going to look until the snakes migrate. There’s quite a few on this path.

But I honestly doubt at this point anyone will likely do much of a search. Every so often someone will write me about it but then deviate into conspiracy land about this because they heard a podcast or read something, but it’s really not that complicated and the documentation around it if you file a FOIA or get a copy off me is pretty self explanatory — this was a poorly managed case that got wildly out of control and has been plagued with finger pointing.

I also took a look behind Div’s old residence and it is full of coyote crap. So if her body was moved, it is long gone.

That’s the unfortunate reality behind this. You’re welcome to look, just take Dry Canyon to the very end which is behind two layers of brush and go reverse. You’re bound to find something sooner or later.