Seems that Hopi, with a stuffed toy as a scent reference, followed the scent up Mountain Pass road on to Springhurst then lost the track.
Monday ? they searched the houses. Jim Frazee said about a half-dozen house were searched.
Hopi (using a pillowcase for reference) was used to search the DAW home. The dog ignored the living room, family room, went up the stairs and got interested in the master bedrom closet, turned and waited for a reward.
The next day Jim took both Hopi & Cielo to the motorhome in High Valley. Neither dog alerted or seemed interested.
A(few) days later, they ran the dogs again thru the motorhome in police impound, Hopi became disturbed and tried to exit the motorhome; Frazee guesses the dog smelled a "fear scent" and was afraid.
Cielo was the used and detected a "cadaver scent", sat and barked --the "alert" according to Jim Frazee.
My questions:
Didn't the police officer supervising the search at impound say the dog didn't bark ?
Did they start searching before DAW got back ? Or did they wait until he showed up.
Wonder what was different about the toy scent and the pillowcase scent ?
Did Ott & Keyser enter DAW's home before Hopi got there ?
It may be my memory, but I don't re-call the jury hearing about the first motorhome search, why is that ?