[Devil_Anse]

We did ponder that question when Geragos and McAllister made a big deal of how the "cadaver dog didn't make a hit" when placed in Scott's boat.

Some of us thought, well, maybe she hadn't been dead long enough for a cadaver dog to smell her!

I am told that decomposition starts fairly quickly--and of course decomposition is what produces the gases that the cadaver dog is trained to detect. So I am thinking that at room temperature a dead body probably has begun emitting its distinctive smell within a few hours.

Velveeta knows a whole lot more about these biological matters than I do. Vel, at room temperature, how long do you think a person has to be dead b/f their body starts to smell (to a cadaver dog) like a cadaver?

[Velveeta]

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[Canadian Outrage]

The decomposition should start fairly soon in a place like California in the summer. I also heard from Dr. Baden that they decompse slowly in cold water. It is about 40 degrees at the bottom of the Bay.!!