Did they find any other body parts? What exactly does “de-fatting” mean and how do they do that?
He was a little tight-lipped about it, but essentially skimming it like you would broth. I’ll see him Thursday and will ask for more details!
It’s not hard if you deliberately ignore the signs. There was a case in 2016 that got a lot of coverage.
For a fictional account of the effect of thermal springs on bodies, see Ngaio Marsh’s novel, Colour Scheme, set at a thermal resort in New Zealand.
That was a case of pure stupidity, and no amount of signage can stop that from happening.
So he was determined to have died in July but his foot was found this month in a hot spring.
I’d doubt he fell in the hot springs back in July. My wag, he fell from a height, died and was scavenged. How it got in the spring?
If you speak up then everyone else is going to want a foot in their soup too.
That might be of help in this thread too!
The joke writes itself.
It’s very easy to slip into some of those pits if you walk too close. It’s very treacherous, and a lot of visitors don’t believe the warning signs or are too eager to look at the pretty colors and get something for Instagram. It happens in an instant, without warning, and there’s no opportunity for rescue.
Yes! Tourons will be prosecuted.
My Point being body parts in the hot pot would not be bobbing around for months intact. Man died elsewhere, parts ended up in soup, found by staff checking the area.
Agree. If you spend any time at all walking out in the woods, you will occasionally see a bone or a skull from some animal, but rarely a complete skeleton. If you do come across an intact dead critter, it’s likely to be recently died, before bits and parts are removed and taken elsewhere by whatever other critter. It’s possible his other remains are elsewhere undiscovered or scattered, but his foot/shoe by chance happened to be dropped/left in a spot frequented by other people and easily found.
Oh, I’m lucky! I come across whole dead horses every now and then. I think most of the bits are too big to get trotted off easily.
By the way, I would highly recommend the book “Death in Yellowstone” (I think that’s the title). It documents all the deaths that have occurred in the park. Pretty entertaining if you are into that kind of thing.
My extensive experience in National Parks and other tourist attractions resulted in my inability to be surprised by even the dumbest things that tourists will do. That would include jumping into a hot spring without knowing whether or not it going to either a) boil you like an egg or b) dissolve you into your basic molecules. People are just that stupid.
Nor a college education, apparently 
Probably the same way they caught the Golden State Killer. There is at least one website where you can share the results of your DNA. If enough of his family, including extended family, added their information to that website, the investigators could have found his family that way.
Also a Rex Stout Nero Wolfe mystery featuring a suicide by a person stripping nude and jumping into a hot spring in Yellowstone Park, with the body never recovered.
A pH must be less than 7 to be acid; more than 7, and it’s alkaline.
“Corrosive” might be a better word.
(The pedant in me: When I was taking chemistry, I was working at a restaurant, and saw and heard the manager tell another employee that he was pouring acid down the floor drain. The container clearly said “SODIUM HYDROXIDE”, which is lye, and about as opposite-acid/alkaline as can exist on earth. I came very close to explaining to him why he was wrong, and decided not to.)
I’ve read that book myself. There’s a similar one called “Death In The Grand Canyon”, and I’m pretty sure it’s also by the same authors.
The games afoot.