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 ...
That is what you said.
So show the proof.
Dinosaurs?
Are you now claiming a salty killed her?
Or maybe she was pecked to death by chickens?
Massive cover up.
130 dingo attacks in one year and people reject the idea that she was not attacked by dingos.
New details suggest evidence of defensive wounds on the Canadian national’s body;
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/queensland/2026/01/21/dingo-attack-victim
Coverup
Campsites closed as police investigate possible dingo link to death of Canadian on Australian tourist island K’gari
While violent dingo and human interactions have been increasing, police refuse to speculate whether 19-year-old woman drowned or was killed by the wild canids
Media cover up
Rangers warned of aggressive dingo behaviour before a woman’s body was found at a popular tourist spot near a pack of the wild dogs.
A cause of death is yet to be determined after the 19-year-old Canadian national was discovered on a beach at Queensland’s World Heritage-listed K’gari early on Monday.
But police confirmed the teen’s body had markings that indicated she had been “interfered with” by the native animals.
Two men were driving up the beach when they spotted a pack of about 10 dingoes crowded on the shore before making the grisly discovery.
Police have refused to speculate on the cause of death, saying the woman’s body was discovered about 90 minutes after she went for an early morning swim on K’gari, formerly Fraser Island.
Fraser Coast Mayor George Seymour fears it may have been a dingo attack.
“It looks likely, doesn’t it,” he said.
“It’s just hard to imagine that she drowned and then was on the beach. If she drowned, she might have washed up on the beach days later.
“But to go swimming at 5am and be found at 6am – it does seem more likely (to be dingoes).”
Beach camping zones 4 (Guuri and Eli) and 5 (Maheno and Wahba) were temporarily closed on Tuesday, from January 20 until January 28.
“This temporary closure is required due to heightened risk of a habituated dingo pack damaging property, ripping tents, and accessing food from unsecured eskies and fridges,” a park alert states.
Warnings of “heightened dingo activity” for the immediate area were also issued on December 12 amid reports the wild dogs had been ripping tents, approaching campers and stealing food and property.
The natural strategy for an alert adult under attack would be to retreat to water deep enough to force the dingoes to swim. At that point, any that came on to attack could be drowned by shoving them under water. Racoons are known to drown pursuing dogs in a similar manner by forcing the dog's head under water.
One can imagine the victim being menaced or attacked, then retreating to the water, but losing her footing so as to suddenly inhale water and drown. The dingoes then inflicted the post-mortem wounds. Or maybe she drowned due to a toxic sting of some sort, with her body then attacked by the dingoes.
Jumping in the water to escape dingoes is not a foolproof strategy, for more than the reason obvious here. If there is anything worse than dingos, it would be crocodiles, and Queensland is full of them.
You are talking me out of my cherished dream of an Australian nature safari.
An Aussie tourist website states that “it is not recommended to swim in the ocean around K’gari. There are frequent riptides which can be dangerous to even the most experienced of swimmers. The ocean around K’gari is also home to sharks and jellyfish which can be harmful to humans.” Supposedly though, crocodiles are relatively rare on the island and its waters.
And once again no link to the anything to prove your statement "Autopsy says there were many defensive wounds indicating she was conscious."
It is nice that you are keeping your imagination active but it is not the same thing as proof.
“I know you are emotionally invested in that”
ROTFLMAO. The emotionally involved person is the one that reopens this subject and that was you.
“but it does not fit with the facts as presented in the article and elsewhere.”
It fits the scenario of a coverup.
Animal rights groups are protective of the dingos and do not want them culled.
Then there are the tourist dollars they do not want to scare away.
130 dingo attacks on that island in one year ...
Oh, I hope not. The Atherton Tablelands near Cairns in Queensland is exactly where you want to go. The Barron Gorge and the antique railroad which takes you there are one of the few places that are larger in real life than their reputation. However you must be careful: ordinary looking shrubs which will put you in the hospital for six months, if you survive, tiny box jellies and blue-ring octopus will kill you, very painfully, and not the least crocodiles waiting in ambush to chomp you in half. I was there two years ago, and was turned away at a park entrance because one had eaten a poor woman the day before and they they were still collecting her pieces.
“One can imagine the victim being menaced or attacked, then retreating to the water, “
Dingos do what dingos do.
Chase their prey into the water.
Yikes! I prefer not to make the acquaintance of dingoes in the wild.
“I know you are emotionally invested in that but it does not fit with the facts as presented in the article and elsewhere.”
Facts come out slowly when the truth is not wanted to be seen.
You have spent days ranting, raving and carrying on like a loon over something that may not have even happened the way you ASS-ume it did. Not to mention lying like a rug.
Try switching to decaf.
“That has nothing to do with this.”
It has everthing to do with this.
“You have spent days ranting, raving and carrying on like a loon over something that may not have even happened the way you ASS-ume it did. “
Now that is what an unsubstantiated rant looks like!
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