[org.whodat]

I know many of you people in ohio live way out in the sticks. But they do have body freezers today and they use then all the time. A friend of mind had a nephew that killed himself and it was two weeks before they got the body back, two weeks for state medical examiners report.

[norton]

Questionable deaths, including suicide, generally require time for an autopsy.
Natural deaths, by any of the various ailments we've seen reported for Mrs Dunham, are usually interred within three days.
When Ronald Reagan died, many other funerals in So. California were delayed by two days; I don't think that applied last week in Hawaii.

But a media blind spot certainly has been part of the score.

About Ohio,
I can't say, never been there, but I expect they've discovered freezers somewhere along the way.