[sinkspur]

Decomposition starts at the time of death, most bodies start producing a faint odor within 12 hours or so due to the natural gases that build up in the corpse as putrification starts (in best case scenario, as in a mortuary). A lot depends on where a body is and the types of weather it has been exposed to.

That's why morticians want to claim a body as soon after death as possible, before tissue gas obstruction prevents the free flow of the embalming fluid. Aspiration removes the contaminants in the major organs, thus removing the source of odor (which is the result of bacteria).

[CAPPSMADNESS]

I am in awe sir, not many people know that!

[the Deejay]

"Decomposition starts at the time of death, most bodies start producing a faint odor within 12 hours or so."

This is one of the points I've been trying to make for weeks. Yet, the "guilty" people think I'm crazy.

So, if he had a body in the RV for the period of time Dusek contends, that RV would have reeked with odor. And the dogs would not only have "hit" but they would have gone nuts!

[L,TOWM]

Hi Sinky! Good to see a familiar name on these threads (been doing a lot of lurking on these threads, I have...they're not safe for a man with standard asbestos undies, and my industrial strength ones have'nt arrived here yet). ;-))