Wouldn't be suprised the DA doesn't think he can get a conviction at this point without a body. The circumstantial case can't be all that strong since the police are once again asking for public help.

They're trying to get De De to make a false move. With Terri gone to Roseburg, she won't be returning to the scene of any crime. But somebody will.

The sorts of questions they're asking now lead me to think they are trying to show Terri is lying. If noone comes forward in response to very public requests to corroborate her claims of being in very public areas, that is circumstantial evidence that she's fabricating an alibi, which is then evidence of guilt.

If the body isn't discovered in the next 2 months, it will be next summer.

Does anyone know if the police have searched the landfills in the Portland area?

There was a case in the Los Angeles area about 20 years ago, in which a young girl disappeared at a mall. It turns out she had been murdered, and her body was thrown into one of the mall's dumpsters. A week or so later, when police became suspicious of a mall employee, they were able to go to the landfill where the mall's trash was dumped each day, and fairly quickly find the body because the landfill kept exact records of where each day's trash had been dumped.

There are lots of dumpsters in the Portland area, but no more than a handful of landfills. So, if Portland's landfills keep similar records, it would be logical to search them, even at this late date.

I bet the body is under water somewhere and probably well anchored. If it was above ground it should have been found by now.

"If noone comes forward in response to very public requests to corroborate her claims of being in very public areas, that is circumstantial evidence that she's fabricating an alibi, which is then evidence of guilt."

While I think she's guilty as hell of having a role in the boy's disappearance, she's 100% innocent right this minute and doesn't have to prove diddly.

I sure hope "no one corroborated your alibi, so you're guilty" never becomes a legal standard in America. There can be a million and two reasons that people won't give cops information.

They won't be able to charge her with murder just because no one was able to corroborate her alibi, but they might be looking for evidence to charge her with Obstruction, or even Perjury (has she testified before the Grand Jury already?)--which still won't be much leverage in getting a confession from her. Reading between the tea leaves, I agree that it doesn't look like they've got much circumstantial evidence at this point. I doubt at this point that they're desperate enough to be thinking in terms of charging her with Obstruction, but laying the groundwork is part and parcel with investigating the disappearance.