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Making rash judgments on a blog doesn’t solve the problem either. Think the police didn’t do an adequate search? Get a group together and go search the area yourself. Perhaps you can find something and get your name on the news.

Just because the news reported a helicopter fly-over doesn't mean its true. I'd bet police accuracy far excedes media accuracy and they get paid.

cant we all just get along?

Now we know each other better, huh?

Sorry for the typeo. Should read: I hope it hasn’t caused you any undue stress or irreparable emotional or psychological harm.

I home it hasn’t caused you any undue stress or irreparable emotional or psychological harm.-Jordan
Stress? Not a bit, you are the least of my worries. But if I did I could sue, that is the American way, right?
Apparently you missed some of my earlier comments that I deleted.
I think the Sheriff has a great suggestion.

jhhwingnut, thanks for the laugh.

Fox 4 reported, and showed, authorities continuing the search of the area. This time they are not only using helicopters and dogs, they are also using officers on horseback and ATV's. They stated that the lead was due to Rene Prienze's phone being found in the park.

The problem for dogs in doing a search at this time of year is the lack of enough heat to promote decomposition of the remains, and the lack of heat also causes problems in being able to follow a "cold" trail.

I hope that they are able to find her, and I am especially hopeful that she is still alive. Her children need to have a mother to raise them.

originalmo_trucker, the DEA has cameras mounted on helicopters that can give a image of drugs hidden within the fender well of a vehicle driving down the highway, the capability of solving crimes is there.

Vision, what you are referring to is thermal imaging, it has been around for years but it can not discern whether or not you are talking about a package within the fenderwell that contains drugs or a piece of insulation that was placed there by the owner to cut down on noise or heat. (CSI has made so many people experts! Sorry pal, but I had over ten years in Law Enforcement and I know most of the capabilities of the equipment in use, and know that most agencies do not have all of the "bells and whistles" in equipment.)

As far as using thermal imaging in this case you have to remember that if standard proceedure was followed the Law Enforcement Agency did not begin an investigation for 24 to 48 hours after the disappearance without suspicions that something occurred to Rene Pernice. (Whenever a third party, someone other than the spouse, reports an adult as missing it is assumed that it is a low priority case.) The main thing that has raised suspicion was the strained relationship that Shon and Rene Pernice had previously and the claim that they were having difficulties once again. Just because Shon did not report the disappearance, has refused to cooperate with the Police and has retained attorneys does not mean that he had anything to do with her disappearance. As to the search of the home and the "evidence" taken into custody, it could simply be anything that might provide hair or body fluid samples, to written documents or firearms. Too many things would be on the list of what could be of importance to an investigation of this type to speculate.

Thermal imaging works when you are working with a heat differential. In the example you mentioned, it was the difference between a human body temperature and the ambient temperature within the vehicle, and from its operation.

In a missing persons case it works whenever there is a living subject within an area, but if you are looking for a deceased person the problem becomes that the longer the deceased is left in an area the closer thier body temperature approachs the ambient air temperature. (As a general rule a body will achieve ambient temperature in 8 to 12 hours. The level of the temperature in the area where the body is, along with factors such as wind, rain, snow, and the amount of clothing on the body also affects the amount of time it takes.) During the day time, as temperatures warm, there will also be differences that occur in the thermal image. Specifically, as the ground and surrounding area warms the body will warm at a different rate. Because of this difference in the rate of heat exchange the body will appear under thermal imaging.

I hope no one was confused by the previous, just wanted to explain how the DEA pictures worked, and to point out the problems with using thermal imaging, and why on site searches will be necessary.