So are you saying that they "hid" the body in the basement so that the police couldn't find it?
HA HA.
If my memory serves me, the police did look in the door but didn't turn on the light and see the body.
No, I'm saying that they hid the body for them to "find" but they didn't. So, John, I am reminded by another FReeper, had to give them some help..........
The first responding cop did NOT open the door. Someone in the family had told him it was painted shut. It wasn't, it was latched at the top.
Fleet White did go and open the door but couldn't find the light switch which wasn't in a normal place on the wall, glanced into the darkness and didn't look around the wall that juts out from the left side of door.
He didn't see her body or the white blanket on the floor because he didn't look down or around that lefthand wall. No one was looking for a dead body, the missing kid had allegedly been taken by abductors. She was on the floor, just to the left of where the wall obstructs the view.