The trunk of the car could reach 130 degrees on summer days of approximately 80 degrees. I find the idea of her digging up and moving this body all over the place to be extremely unlikely. Caylee only weighed 30something pounds, the decomposition that would occur between the 16th and the 27th if you are using the amscot date as the final day she moved the body would be extreme.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpa...0A35751C1A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
new link about Dr. Bass and the Body Farm from today's New York Times.
-snip- The goal of the project is to develop techniques to estimate time since death during the early stages of decomposition, specifically targeting the breakdown of soft tissue. -snip
-snip Since putrefaction follows a predictable cycle, a kind of olfactory time chart can be deduced from these smells, helping law-enforcement officers and forensic experts determine when an unidentified corpse might have met its end. It's all part of establishing a minutely dependable chronicle of death, which may soon make committing the perfect crime a forbidding prospect. -snip
''We can't necessarily identify a corpse with this new research,'' Marks says. ''But we can recover its history, the secret of its death. We can reach back and see how long it's been lying there. -snip
Bolded by me and respectfully snipped for length.
Point is- What would they need to send results to the Body Farm for if they did not have evidence of death in the car? I posted before I thought the issue for that testing was to nail down the timeline.
Why need to nail down a timeline if you know there was a corpse in the car you ask?...
There is more than one person involved potentially on 2 different dates and they need to tie them to the car simultaneously.