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To: connectthedots
If the body was mummified, why were there blow flies, which only like 'fresh meat'. A body that had been at the site for up to two weeks prior to attracting blow flies would hardly qualify as fresh.

OK! I really don't know what I am saying but let me try again. The prosecution says her body was there 2/1 or 2/2. I am saying according to the Golf course guy there was a lot of frost (moisture)and maybe watering (I thought he indicated because of all the frost they didn't water) which would cause the body to rot rather than mummify.

Testimony says she had some mummification. Now I am thinking what if she was killed and put there sometime around 2/14-16. The weather was warm enough to begin instant mummification (hands, face) plus be fresh enough for blowflies to start laying eggs in.

Does this make any sense?

326 posted on 07/25/2002 12:21:53 PM PDT by Spunky
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To: Spunky
Makes much sense to me.
328 posted on 07/25/2002 12:23:28 PM PDT by mommya
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To: Spunky
Testimony says she had some mummification. Now I am thinking what if she was killed and put there sometime around 2/14-16. The weather was warm enough to begin instant mummification (hands, face) plus be fresh enough for blowflies to start laying eggs in.

Does this make any sense?

The prosecution is suggesting mummifaction took place prior to the disposal of the body, which inhibited the blowfly activity from beginning until the middle of February. Problem is, that the prosecutor's curren t theory depends on the body mummifying in the first 2-3 days Danielle was missing, because otherwise, Dw couldn't have disposed of the body since he was by then under constant watch by the cops. If blow flies are attracted to fresh 'meat', possibly even within 1/2 hour, why would they wait almost two weeks to start laying eggs in Danielle's body?

It would seem very logical to me that if the body was partially mummified prior to being exposed at Dehesa Road, someone other than DW disposed of the body around the middle of February, eliminating DW as a suspect (at least as a perp acting alone) in the murder of Danielle.

All in all, the anthropologist will end up being a big plus for the defense in this case. Don't be misled by the answers being given on direct examination because Dusek is being very care to elicit only the answers he wants. Feldman will tear Dusek apart in his cross-examination and the witness will not make much of an effort if any to defend Dusek with his answers. BTW, your comment makes sense, unlike the prosecutors theory when applied to the evidence.

375 posted on 07/25/2002 12:58:39 PM PDT by connectthedots
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