[hoosiermama]

She was in the "WINE CELLAR' Wine cellars are usually kept at a 55* temp. That would DELAY putrefaction. OTOH IIRC the furnace was not far away. It's heat could have accelerated putrefaction. Maybe she was killed closer to it and only moved much later.

[Rte66]

It was only "called" the wine cellar as an affectation. It wasn't *really* a wine cellar. It was the old coal room of the 1920s house.

[Palladin]

That's a hoot! Some "wine cellar". Did you look at the picture? It's a dirty basement room where paint cans, old windows, odds and ends, and Christmas decorations were kept.

In my house, we call that the "Junk Room".