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You and Vel keep wanting to go to the warehouse and bay. I'm still at the dumpster behind the wine gallery with Merlin. IOW, in Laci's neighborhood, trying to determine if Merlin, the bloodhound, is credible or not. If Merlin's not credible in the first scenario, no way a jury's gonna believe he is in the second and third. Now, that begs the question, how did Merlin get to the dumpster? It just seems like I recall that he came out of the driveway and immediately turned left and started tracking Laci. Guess I need to go back to the driveway. ;^)

Maybe he did go out of the driveway (away from the park, as reports said) and maybe he did start walking along, tracking Laci. But something he did while still in the driveway signalled to them that they were now tracking Laci-in-a-vehicle, not Laci-on-foot. That's what the reports said; I think the police were quoted as saying, According to the search dog(s), she left in a vehicle, not on foot.

So he might have gone to the dumpster--following the path the vehicle carrying Laci had gone, and he might have hit on the dumpster due to the person driving the vehicle's having stopped at the dumpster for some reason, perhaps to throw away some paper towels, or who knows what.

OR, try this on for size: maybe the police came out with that rather direct (for them) statement saying, "Our dog(s) said she left in a vehicle not on foot", maybe they came out with that as part of their bluffing game trying to make Scott sweat.

They WERE clearly playing a bluffing game with him at that point. For example, there was that time in January when they said they found what might be a body in the bay, but that they had to wait a day or so b/f going down to make sure, b/c of weather. That was just a bluff on their part: I think the weather wasn't that bad, and they could have gone down there immediately and gotten the object. It turned out to be a metal ship's anchor. I think, and lots of others thought, that they were bluffing, trying to get Scott so worried that he'd blow his cool. Maybe the statement, "We found evidence she left in a vehicle, not on foot" was a bluff. Maybe they weren't really sure at that point.