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Yeah, I see your point. I was thinking more, that he'd dumped whatever it was in Lopez Lake during his same trek to Berkeley (on the way to, or from), and that he was just sort of looking over the place to see if there'd been any police presence there.

However, this idea of mine that he maybe made a side trip to Lopez Lake at the same time he went to Berkeley to dump Laci--this idea has a problem in that he probably wouldn't have had time to go that much out of his way, on the night of the 23rd-24th.

As for a body at the bottom of a freshwater lake, I can offer this: I know of a lake like that. It was manmade and so it has the remnants of trees at the bottom of it--they flooded over forests to make this lake. And it is 200 feet deep in places, I hear. I read once that they'd solved a disappearance that occurred at that lake. A man had gone fishing and disappeared. Turned out he'd fallen out of the boat and drowned. Something like 5-10 years after he'd disappeared, they'd found his body. He was still wearing the clothes he'd fished in, and in his pocket was his driver's license and everything in his wallet--which was how they identified him. I understand the body was fairly well preserved, at least it didn't fall apart or anything.

I think when his body sank, it got caught on some of the branches that were under the water. I guess that's why they used to shoot off cannons when they were searching for drowning victims--it caused a vibration which might shake the body loose.

that he'd dumped whatever it was in Lopez Lake during his same trek to Berkeley (on the way to, or from),

Lopez Lake is at least three hours one way from Modesto. It would not figure into the movements of the 24th.

I know that about fresh water lakes. Our lake here has coughed up bodies in their clothes etc. many years after they disappeared.