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According to things I've read here lately, it's just possible that a dead body doesn't smell like the cadavers those dogs are trained to track, for about the first 24 hours. If Laci did die at the house, I doubt her body remained there for that long.

You're losing me here, Anse. Scott left his home at 9:30 a.m. with the body of Laci, according to MPD. He immediately went by the warehouse with the body, got the weights, transferred the body to the boat, yaddie yada. They had one cadaver dog, Twist, go in and search. Why wouldn't they have checked the house with that same cadaver dog? Did they think he left the body at the warehouse?

I don't think they thought he ever left the body at the house. I think they figured he got it out of there almost immediately.

He had people coming in the house the same evening she was reported missing. This would indicate to any observer, including us, that he must not have had the body in the house.

If they had a regular scent dog go in the house and sniff around for Laci's scent, of course the dog would have "hit." She had been in the house, alive, recently. But I'm just saying that according to what I've read here lately, a cadaver doesn't smell like a cadaver (to one of those dead-body dogs) until the person has been dead over 24 hours. I doubt that her dead body lay in the house for any 24 hours.

I don't recall ever hearing that they took dogs into the house. I do recall that they had them in the driveway and in the neighborhood.