Somebody else died in the apartment. Furniture/items moved from a cadaver property to that apartment. Somebody touched a cadaver then entered the apartment and transferred. No evidence! Only one person disappeared from that apartment. Evidence suggests that person being the cadaver source if you believe the police dogs. If you are calling the dogs unreliable like Gerry (Mark Harrison recommended the best dogs be used!) then you won't believe it. But when crime scene photos corroborate dog alerts then police IMO will believe something happened in the apartment that resulted in a death on 3 May 2007. Prime suspect Smithman then hid the evidence! Enter SY searching nearby wasteland to that sighting.
Q: I know you don’t want to go into detail but are there more forensic tests, is that what is going on?
MR: I’m not going to talk about detail of the type of work going on but there are critical lines of enquiry
of great interest to ourselves and our Portuguese counterparts and there are some significant
investigative avenues we are pursuing that we see as very worthwhile.