Huh? Without a body, how could they NOT suspect foul play? Looks like Joran Van Der Sloot and Scott Peterson used the wrong defense.
Well, to be fair to the fuzz, they might have put that out for public consumption while they take a closer look at things.
You said — “Huh? Without a body, how could they NOT suspect foul play? Looks like Joran Van Der Sloot and Scott Peterson used the wrong defense.”
Well, that’s because bodies do disappear when they’re sucked out to the ocean. Sometimes they come back and sometimes they don’t.
I remember (a long while back) a church that I went to had a youth group go to the coast and one of the guys got caught by a bigger wave and knocked off his feet, on the rocks and into the ocean. The group couldn’t get to him and he kept going further and further out to sea (this was before cell phones, too...). And so, before any help could arrive, he was gone and he was never found again...
It happens and you’re told in Oregon to watch out for the rogue waves and not to turn your back on the ocean and keep your eyes on those waves. You can be up on the beach and away from the breaking waves and then, all of a sudden, a rogue wave can come out of nowhere and suck you out to the ocean.
The *power* of the pull of the water is immense — if you’ve every tried standing there in any significant depth of water. If you lose your footing, even on shallow water, it will suck you out if you don’t gain your footing real quickly...