Re: in the NYPost quote: found "car upside down" and "body in backseat."
If the car was upside down, then the body should have sunk down onto the interior car roof IF the body was loose. Does saying the body was in the backseat imply that KR was seatbelted into the backseat and found upside down? If decomposition gases caused the body to float after initially resting on the interior roof, eg the "bottom", then floating up to the backseat is not really "in the backseat", to me at least.
iirc AWP saw the body in the backseat before the car was turned over and pulled out of the water. There wasn't any video of the process, but as the car emerged from the water, the water would have been gushing out of the open and broken windows. jmo LE would have opened a door, too, to get as much water out as possible. So if the body had been loose as the car was turned upright, dragged out, water pouring out... a floating body could have landed anywhere inside the car, yet we all did see the blue privacy tarp over the back.
jmo I believe (greater than 75%) that KR was
seatbelted in the backseat, and that is how she was found, upside down; ergo, KR was unconscious or deceased when the car entered the water, she was not driving, not a simple tragic MVA.
This link says it takes 5 - 8 days for decomposition gases to cause a body to float in fresh water 50F or greater.
www.theanswerbank.co.uk
How do any of you visualize "car upside down" AND "body in backseat"?