Wolfinator
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It makes sense that the 'bag' would be custom made for something like a bench for a boat, caravan or even Kombi-type vehicle.
I was thinking along the lines of your second point last night, ie, the sheet being used as a loose 'shroud'.
I've also thought that, if he was closer to the maximum age of 70 and, seeing as there must be no obvious signs of trauma if police don't know how he died, he may have died of natural causes. Just why someone would put his remains in a watery grave, in that case, is anyone's guess.
I wonder if there had been some flooding/rising river levels in the area in the preceding two weeks or so? In other words, could he have been either sleeping rough on the banks of one of the rivers (there's a junction of the Tweed and Rous Rivers just before the Tumbulgum Tavern), passed away and his body washed downstream? Or buried in a shallow grave and his body uncovered and washed downstream by the current.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/T...!1s0x6b90fbcd0092c015:0x40609b49043fe80?hl=en
11th of Nov - 65mm fell at New Italy (about 40km away)
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/mwr/nsw/mwr-nsw-201211.pdf
But Nov 2012 doesn't look to have had any large weather/flooding events at first glance. But that river has pretty strong tidal surges. I'll try and find more localised records to look for local flooding and King tides.
It was certainly warm enough to consider sleeping in your underwear.
It would be good to know how that bag was tied and what with. And I don't think it was a bag. I'm backing the caravan/boat cushion cover raised earlier.
That part of the world is sleepy and populated with a lot of "alternate" lifestyles who like to live off the grid.
I'm thinking he could have been a "live aboard" boatie on the river possibly or even just passing through and the boat and its occupants moved on without him... Could explain the lack of a missing persons report - possibly interstate or foreign if a boat is involved.
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