DCR procedure require that the pools be skimmed/cleaned every day after closing (7 PM). There is NO way that anyone doing this job properly could miss a body in such a pool. Componding this-the DCR (state agency that runs the pools) closed all of the “deep water” (i.e. non-wading pools) for two days.
I believe this is because there are a lot of politically connected people who have “no show” “jobs” at these pools-and they want make sure these people “sign in” before they allow the records to be made public.
I think I’ll wait for the coroner’s report. The evidence that she downed Sunday seems to be hearsay. The evidence that she drowned Sunday is based on a statement from a nine year old boy. I find it more plausible that she drowned Tuesday rather than Sunday and people swam in the pool for days without noticing a dead body.
I could be wrong, but Occam’s razor applies here until we have more evidence.
If the 9 year old knew enough to tell the lifeguards and try to rescue her himself, WHY wouldn’t the 9 year old tell anyone else in the group that she was on the bottom of the pool? Did he just stand there and not say anything while everyone else in the group was wondering where she was?
Less importantly, why would someone who allegedly doesn’t know how to swim go on a water slide?
This is a really, really weird story.
On the news, they said it was a state run pool with a permit that expired in December. They showed pictures of the pool and it looked nice, not at all like a place that would make you think “I could hide a body in there for days and no one would notice”.
I’ll also wait for the coroner’s report. Until we have any proof that she drowned at all it could be a body dumping.
That said, I know a couple people who work at city-run public pools here in NYC and there is no way a body could go undiscovered for even a day.
I’ve swam in motel pools all over the U.S. and a few city pools. The water has always been clear enough to see the bottom. It has to be. You can’t dive into murky water. You might land on top of someone swimming in there.
The pump/filter must have been broke to have water murky enough to hide a body.
The second page of the article says that Ms. Joseph did know the nine-year-old, and also that her group included six children, though it’s not stated definitively that the boy was in that group. The group was dropped off and then picked up together on Sunday, and Joseph was not with them when picked up. Their driver and Joseph’s adult son (not at the pool) didn’t know where she was Sunday evening or Monday.
It really does sound like she drowned on Sunday and went unnoticed on the bottom. It’s completely bizarre, but it seems the alternative requires a conspiracy of lies among at least four other adults (presumably the police talked to the other two in the group, as well as the driver and the son) and one or more children–and to what end? Why attract all this extra attention by staging an incredible scenario? “Lifeguards and swimmers who were at the pool Monday and Tuesday” confirm that the water was murky. “Free spirit” or not, it would be a rather incredible coincidence for somebody to disappear from a swimming group on Sunday (but not by drowning), then have the water cloud up, and then have that same person return to the pool to drown on Tuesday.