“They know where she was before she disappeared.”
You are missing the point.. If the phone trail is tracked, as I am sure it was, the police may have a known location for the cell phone AFTER the girl was last seen in a bar or on a store camera. And the location of the phone was most certainly close to where the missing student was at the same time. My specific question would be, where was the phone’s last known location? If the phone were destroyed outside of town, it might indicate a direction the abducted girl was traveling in. I would think the police would share this information to help the public focus on the search.
Acutally, I was responding to the comment: "where she was the night she disappeared". That was the point of my comment.
If the phone trail is tracked, as I am sure it was,
You believe all phones are tracked and the data kept for review later?
And the location of the phone was most certainly close to where the missing student was at the same time.
Probably, if such data existed. Life isn't a TV show. As for real life technology abilities, do you believe the police are not aware of them?