I mean, I seriously doubt you could pull up a several days dead body and confuse it for a just-croaked one, right? Although obviously it didn’t bloat and float.
Is this another ralphFact[sup]TM[/sup]?
Got any evidence for your claim, or are you just going to leave your unsupported assertion hanging there, as usual?
Well, in the picture of the pool here you can barely see the woman’s leg only a couple feet under the water.
Now imagine her flat on the bottom in the deep end (12’).
A body in the water for 2 days in the hot summer sun?
That ain’t water–that’s a thin stew.
That must have been pretty traumatic for whoever it was that did eventually find the body, and I wonder who that was.
Everybody responsible for cleaning that pool, and the lifeguards that day should be fired. If I was a parent, I wouldn’t want my kids going somewhere that would be allowed to happen.
Wouldn’t sunlight reflecting off the water and the angle of the photo affect what could be seen in a photograph of a person in a pool? I think so.
She may not have been easily visible at high noon, but there are lots of other hours and angles in a day.
*** Now they are reporting *The medical examiner’s office has determined the manner of her death to be accidental and the cause to be asphyxiation by drowning.
The probe shows the water in the Fall River pool was murky from the time the pool opened for the season last Saturday. Visibility tests conducted Wednesday revealed a diver couldn’t be seen at a depth of 3½ to 4 feet below the surface of the water.
So did none of the pool personnel find her towel and her cellphone and whatever else she had with her that day after they closed up? I find it hard to understand why the friends she had come with figured she had just headed home on her own…surely she had put her stuff down next to theirs? And they were all given a ride there and were being picked up…was she truly such a “free-spirit” they would think she would just wander off on her own at a time like that? And why didn’t the nine year old keep insisting that she was in the water when the group was ready to leave and looked around for her?
Theft, perhaps?
:eek: That doesn’t sound good. What’s in the water that makes it so murky? Shouldn’t public pools have a standard of cleanliness that would preclude perpetual murkiness to that extent? I’ve never seen a pool that murky. I just don’t think I’d even go into a pool that didn’t appear clear.
Just answered my own question.
So apparently too high pH causes water to go cloudy. What causes high pH? Well, one thing is swimmer waste. So swimmers were peeing like mad in the pool and the pool maintenance crew neglected to correct the pH imbalance.
And other than the swimmer waste and dead body, the reason you don’t want to get into a cloudy pool is that high pH makes chlorine ineffective. So that comment by officials that swimmers needn’t worry about spending any time in missing lady stew because the pool was chlorinated: not entirely accurate. :eek:
There’s going to be a complete overhaul of the procedures to avoid anything like this happening in the future.
From now on, the weekly check for dead bodies in the pool will be done on Mondays instead of Fridays.
You know, unless that water was really, really cold, the lady should have been floating within a couple of hours. Bacteria in the intestine don’t stop when you die. They just start digesting you. That produces a lot of gas, and up pops the corpse. It’s why people who drown during the winter are so hard to recover. I can’t see the acidity of the pool changing that.
Jiminy Cricket, people. If I’d swum in that pool after she’d gone missing, I think I’d have taken a steel brush and Lysol to my skin.
I’m the first to agree that this story is a compound of weird elements, that adds up to a whole lot of weird. But the murky water thing I have a bit of experience with. The other year, I took my kids to the local pool, also a DCR-managed pool, and was appalled to find that the water looked like mud soup. People were happily swimming, but I took the kids and left. I had never seen anything like it. And I’ll be the first to admit that the sapphire-blue pool is pure artifice, created by chlorine – but that look is so normative that it’s hard to believe that brown murk in a pool could be considered okay by a single soul. You can’t help thinking of a sewer.
The report I read was that the water was already murky when the pool opened for the season on June 26. I live in Orlando, so I don’t know what the procedure is up north, but would the pool have water in it year round or would it be drained in the off season?
Another thing I find odd is that the news stated that they closed 30 pools so they could investigate. What possible reason do they have for closing 29 pools that didn’t have bodies in it while they look into the death?
For one thing, if Pool #1 was so murky that they couldn’t see a body, how would you know that the other pools didn’t hide a body, too?
Wait. It would seem that someone threw in the already dead body and little Joseph made his story up.
I think.
Yep-there was just a scandal in the state department of escalator/elevator inspections. Seems a five year old fell through a gap, between the wall and an escalator landing, in a shopping mall in Worcester county.
The union admitted that most of the inspectors did not know the regulations regarding this..and that the inspectors had approved this escalator for public use.
So having no competent maintainence of the DCR pools does not surprise me.
I’m glad we finally know where they dumped Jimmy Hoffa.