In considering all the scientific clues of "normal times" for things, you always have to take into consideration that she was a tiny 6-year-old who only weighed 45 pounds.
we're no longer looking at a school teacher with a child obscession going to Colorado,
but a 32 year old preppy looking rich guy driving a sportscar driving into Boulder at Christmas time. No one would blink an eye!!
Quite right, and smaller bodies putrify slower because they cool faster. A 300 lb circus mama would putrefy faster because the greater body mass would retain warmth longer, spurring bacterial growth.
The body was also in a presumably cooler room which would also slow putrefaction. So if putrefaction occurrs from 24-36 hours, yet conditions for more rapid putrefaction did not exist and unusual or rapid putrefaction is NOT noted in the autopsy, then perhaps claims of odor/putrefaction by the officer are overstated, mistaken or bias on the part of officer who interprets facts to fit theory instead of the other way around?
Assuming death must have occurred earlier rather than later based on the officer's perception rather than the coronor's statement seems specious at best.