If Doc Watson is around, or anyone else who might be able to answer, how easy/hard would it be to detect drowning as the cause of death, considering the state of decomposition of the body? Would the lungs etc also be quite decomposed, as would the outside of the body?
I've just been wondering if that's a likely COD, for a few reasons...
1 - It would be much harder to fight off an attacker if you were in the bath, both with the position and being put under water
2 - The killer could have thought placing her body in water after the fact (if in fact it was submerged in the creek) might hide a drowning at home
3 - Assuming it's true that the children were at home that night, drowning would be a lot quieter, ie. pretty hard to scream under water
4 - Drowning may not show much, if any, in the way of external injuries
5 - Also, it could point to him dressing her afterwards, unless he was going to dispose of a naked body, and with this means of death, there wouldn't be evidence of death on whatever clothes she may have been wearing at the hairdressers, and probably no need to get rid of the 'before the event' clothes
I know it's a horrible subject, just the whole COD thing has me, and obviously so many others baffled.