I think LE found out about the source of the photo after they went public with it. I think they cleaned it up because they thought the unretouched photo would be too graphic for the general population. Don't forget that people like us here at WS's are somewhat more conditioned to the horrors of the world, but a lot of people are really upset by pictures like this. For instance, I saved the picture in a Word document and emailed it to myself at work. I then showed it to some of my co-workers and shared it with a Pathologist I work with; who didn't add any information that you guys hadn't already noticed, by the way. One of the guys I showed it to, considers himself pretty tough. He had been in my office talking about other stuff and I told him about the case. I opened the Word document with the picture and asked him to come around to my side of the desk and look at it. He immediately sort of straightened up and said "I don't know", and walked out of my office! I was like, WTF? He was obviously upset by the picture, and I think LE thought they would get a lot of complaints if they had posted the unretouched photo for the general public. Also, can you imagine how the family of someone who was local would have felt if the victim had been local, and the family had recognized her? I truly think LE can learn from this case, and use resources like the people here at Websleuths with future cases like this.