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Posted on 01/23/2026 1:35:00 PM PST by BenLurkin
The family of a Canadian backpacker who was found dead on a heritage-listed tourist destination in Queensland, Australia, has been given the preliminary findings from her autopsy.
The body of Piper James, 19, was found on Seventy Five Mile Beach on K’gari (Fraser Island) just after 5 a.m. Monday.
Friends of James have revealed she had told them she was going for a swim around that time.
Two passersby discovered James’ body, surrounded by a pack of dingoes.
The preliminary findings from James’ autopsy have since been delivered to her father, Todd, and his wife, Angela, with the ABC reporting a preliminary assessment indicating the dingo bites found on her body were most likely sustained after her death.
“The autopsy has found physical evidence consistent with drowning and injuries consistent with dingo bites,” a spokesperson told the broadcaster.
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“We simply can’t confirm whether this young lady drowned or died as a result of being attacked by dingoes,” Wide Bay District Inspector Paul Algie said Thursday.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
So, what is the bombshell?
Since K'gari (Fraser Island), a UNESCO World Heritage-listed wilderness area, offers a range of accommodations tailored to different travel styles, from rugged camping to luxury resorts.
They may have been at the place where they were staying. If she actually died from drowning, then it's unlikely that she was never even capable to scream.
A person that is in the process of drowning and is unconscience but not dead, does not recover without help.
At our neighborhood pool, we were watching a guy swim laps underwater in the diving area of the pool, and all of a sudden we was still moving his arms but it was in slow motion. He was doing this for a friend of mine who was a liscensed scuba diver. He was putting him through a test one must take to qualify to get a liscense. When he went into slow motion mode, we initially thought he was showing off. I finally pushed my friend in telling him he needs to rescue him, he's in trouble.
The male lifequard freaked out and said I can't do this, give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation because he was purple. I can't remember who stepped in to provide it. Fortunately that person, that I believe was a young female, was able to bring him back.
He had actually passed out, drowned, and brought back before he died.
Trust me, he was for all puposes very near death, amd was totally unaware of his condition, surroundings, etc.
Which would explain that she never even realized the dingoes were biting her. That wasn't going to make her regain consciouness either, for the drowning process must have not reacged death at that point.
I went into my bunker anyway, out of habit but thanks for the graphic alert, even late.
I ate one of the 25 year storage food dinners. Will outlast everything but the Twinkies.
Just 'reading between the lines', but maybe she was trying to retrieve an unexploded bombshell from deep water, when she accidentally drowned, and all of the apparent life-saving efforts by the dingoes were to no avail...
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I suppose that it could have been dingo drool.
Ha.
Since the deceased girl lives in my part of the world there was a TV news segment where they interviewed friends who stayed home and weren’t with her in Australia. They all said she was a strong swimmer, and she had work with firefighting crews so one presumes she was in very good shape. That just deepens the mystery as the location does not look like very dangerous swimming ... you have to wonder if a third party was responsible. A meet-up gone wrong?
“Except for the water in her lungs.”
Fluid, not water. Findings say may be from puncture wounds.
Can’t rule it out based on the lack of info in this “story”.
Wow. You are so smart.
You should be on TV.
“you have to wonder if a third party was responsible. “
Dingos?
Is there water in her lungs? (or were her lungs devoured?)
“Which would explain that she never even realized the dingoes were biting her. That wasn’t going to make her regain consciouness either, for the drowning process must have not reacged death at that point.”
Autopsy says there were many defensive wounds indicating she was conscious.
“You should be on TV.”
I was, once. The local TV station broadcasted a grammar school play.
This was no boating accident!
What may appear to be defensive wounds, may not be that at all. They are still investigating because of the inconclusiveness of the initial autopsy.
LOL!!!!
“The drowning could have been due to simple mishap, a rip current, undertow, or even a toxic reaction to venom from a jellyfish sting or the like. Her body would have naturally floated and could have easily been drawn ashore by wave action.”
Or maybe dingos killed her. This would be the third fatal attack at that beach.
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