Well Don saying in that video he watched the birds/buzzards flying over an area, is smart and I should have said that from our experiences. Don saying he smelled something to me means Sylar's time of death is very important and the state of decompostion isn't just bones. Boy the science involved and most of us are crying.
This tells me that there was soft tissue left, hopefully they will be able to detect what was the COD and manner of death for Sylar. I have my fingers crossed.
My issue is the dismembered remains.
Really I do not care how much water went down the wash. Animals maybe. But not water. I mean I read a story on that is on this board about a guy whos body hung in a tree for a year by his neck and his body(I mean skeleton) was still intact. Still hanging.
I remember during the Laci Peterson case there was information posted about this. Laci was weighed down in the water for a while before her body broke apart.
Animals could have made dismemberment possible but I looked up the definition and it says cut apart I know not meaaning much. Why would they say dismembered ???
They shouldnt have said that if he was not DISMEMBERED in the somebody did it kind of way.
I am stuck on that so someone needs to push me forword.
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONVO ON DECOMP OF HUMAN BODY
Okay I'll try to give you a nudge SM
Okay we had a child (small child) who was at least 2 weeks + into the decomp stage which is accelertated by the extreme high temps of the desert. Heat will always effect the natural stages of decomp, but the desert puts that acceleration on over drive.
We have a small deceased child who has been exposed to extreme conditions, and then the heavy rainfall came, moving him from where he was concealed out into a wash (waterway that is dry when it is not raining).
Those washes are not like dry creek beds that we see back east where the bottom of the creek is usually smooth with sand and mud. These washes are full of boulders and very large sharp rocks. There might be a stretch of the wash that is smooth but for the most part, they are filled with rocks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkWh50e7_X8&feature=related
The above video gives you an idea of the power of the water moving into and down that wash. It comes all at once. It's not a creek that becomes higher and more swift after a rain. I have seen reports of cars being moved down washes from the power of the water alone.
Now, take a small child whose body is compromised by advanced decomp and have them in that wash hitting the obstacles of the boulders and rocks as they make their way down the wash.
That is how I think that some of Sylar's remains were scattered. Not by being dismembered by someone but as a natural occurance of him moving down the wash at a high rate of speed, hitting the obstacles of the wash area and coming to rest once the water receded. KWIM? HTH.
