“Need the toxicology report”
Absolutely. I’m thinking they were all blacked out drunk.
That... plus we have no idea what the ground looked like around where they were where they stumbling around and they have a fight and sort of wrestling match and got tired and laid down, passed out, froze...
Readers forget that drunks and druggies pass out and remain in awkward positions for hours, cutting off bloodflow to limbs with a resulting amputations. It happens. So... with plummeting temps they froze. It is certainly not inconceivable as the press and relatives would want us to believe.
The temperatures were close to freezing for the whole time.
True, men can get extraordinarily drunk, this could without question involve drugs but...........
For example, them getting as drunk to the gills as possible with 20 or 30 beers which puts them ready to pass out eventually but then throwing back shooters with wild abandon before it all terminally hits, and when they do pass out they can sleep in misery for 2 days easily, and letting the dog out or feeding it is a chore that can be put off if one is that hung over.
Of course in a party situation like that the coffee table and kitchen counter would have plenty of chips and food for a dog to scrounge.