I can guarantee any of you in an unsolved missing child case if a cadaver dog alerted to your home, clothes and car (no other car alerted just yours!) then you would also NOT be cleared. It's simple - never cleared because professional police dogs brought in indicated a cadaver. That suggests the source of cadaver scent was the missing child never found.
You have it wrong PFinder.
It was necessary that both dogs sniffed everything, otherwise it was impossible to tell if Eddie was alerting to the desicated blood from a living person or to Cadavar odour.
Keela did NOT alert to Cadaver Odour, she only alerted to the desicated blood from a living person.
So if Eddie alerted it could be to the desicated blood from a living person. If Keela alerted too, then as she only alerted to te blood of a living person that ruled out Cadaver odour.
If she was shown the spots where Eddie alerted and she didn't alert to the place then it COULD be Cadaver Odour. COULD BE.
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There was ONLY ONE place where Eddie alerted and Keela didn't and that was between the bedhead and wardrobe, so this COULD have been an alert to cadavar Odour.
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However Tasmin Silences Grandpa used to live in 5A and his pyjamas would likely have been brought back from the hospital, where he died. Would they have cadaver odour on them ? The likely place where they would have been stored is in the bottom of the wardrobe or between the headboard and the wardrobe, close up to the wall.
Also, what happened to his ashes? With an elderly widow away from home, in a foreign country, she was likely to have kept them in an urn or box. And for comforting her, the most likely place was on the bedside table where she could touch the container and feel hubby was still around.There was NO CADAVER alert in the clothes, nor the car cos Keela did not verify Eddies alert as Cadaver, but as blood from a living person.
There was only one valid alert in the flat and that was in the bedroom, just where the bedside table would have been.
We have learned on this forum that a dog will alert even to a burned up cadavar
It is my belief that Eddie was alerting to the odour of Tasmins Grandpas ashes. And there certainly is no reason to go throwing out of date and originally misunderstood opinions about because you dont know..
AIMHO
BTW, It is possible for the odour of desicated blood from a living person to be alerted to even 30 years after the bleed. Just how many people might have bled in that flat over 30 years. Even a bleeding mosquito bite could trigger an alert.