[connectthedots]

The prosecution countered with a forensic anthropologist who said the body's extreme mummification might help explain why blowflies weren't able to access the remains immediately.

And the body became "extremely mummified" in just 2-3 days? I don't think so! If the body was extremely mummified, the blowflies wouldn't have been attracted to the body. The prosecution simply has no reasonable explanation for even the obvious discrepencies.

[Jaded]

Are we really sure the whole body was mummified? I can only find specific references to the hands, face, lips, nose and side of the neck. That would explain why there was not an infestation of the brain. (There just is no nice way to say maggot infestation.)

[John Jamieson]

Yeah and the extreme mummification caused her to die BEFORE the evening of 2/1 too!

[cyncooper]

And the body became "extremely mummified" in just 2-3 days?

Expert testimony is it can take as little as 24 hours. Her body was not completely mummified, but partially. I believe the prosecution theory is bug activity delayed until animal activity took place, opening the body up and making it attractive to insects at that time (plus weather had warmed up by then increasing insect population).