Found Deceased TX - Caleb Harris, 21, Texas A&M University student, Corpus Christi, 4 Mar 2024 #4

[10ofRods]

I have a question along your line of thinking. The CCPD stated that they were unable to visualize anything inside the manhole as it had water in it at the time and they couldn't see to the bottom. If he had fallen into that manhole, wouldn't his body have floated to the top by April 18?

Bodies float during the stage of decomp where gasses are accumulating in tissues in the body. When the skin degrades, these gasses escape. Then the body sinks again.

If the body is mostly bones, it's going to sink. Human bodies don't just float when they are alive. The more fat a person has, the easier it is for them to learn to float. Some people never learn to float/can't float unless using arms and legs to paddle.

But dead bodies do not always float, and none of them is going to float once the fat and muscle are mostly gone. Tendons and fascia and bone may remain for quite a while.