"... use ground penetrating radar to search every square inch of St. John's campus to look for Josh." The sheriff or the university could request the assistance of the U.S. Army Reserve's 367th Engineer Battalion, headquartered in St. Cloud and recently back from Afghanistan, where they excelled in the detection of land mines. Their metal-detecting equipment can detect objects such as keys, a watch, or coins. Their sonar-based equipment can detect skeletal remains, which unfortunately is what we'd be looking for, based on the sheriff's repeated statements that Josh "could have walked into a heavily swampy area and sunk into the mud." I find it beyond comprehension that the authorities have not yet fenced off this life-threatening danger zone on campus or posted warning signs to keep other students out of these hazardous areas -- if, in fact, they exist. (But surely the sheriff wouldn't lie about something like that.)
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