Nancy Grace talked with Toney Wade for an update on the Emily Wade case today. Final autopsy results have not been released yet. The family told Toney that the coroner said that it was a drowning.
Toney described how Emily's body was found. Her body was on its back in the mud, which he said was a very unusual position in which to find a drowning person's body. He has seen many drowning victims, but has never seen one on its back. Far more typical is that the drowned person is face down.
Captain Toney Wade said the body looked "pristine." Yes, there was mud on her back side because she was laying on her back in the mud, but the top side of her body looked very clean. Her hair was not muddy. Toney Wade said her body didn't look like she had tried to walk through a creek or crawled through mud. Dr. Daniel Bober, one of Nancy's analysts, said that drowning people thrash so it could be possible that Emily ended up on her back, although he conceded that position is unusual for a drowning victim.
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Texas flood water is muddy. A drowning victim goes underwater after drowning, sometimes for days. I can't understand Wade's body description lying in the mud. I would expect the exact opposite. Obviously.
Does that mean she wasn't in the creek that night she disappeared?
I agree that the car needs to be found. LE's stated presumption of accident includes Emily driving into the creek at the Ensign Road crossing. If the car is found downstream of the crossing, then this will likely be case closed.
If Emily's car is found anywhere else, ie Lake Bardwell, then this case will be very open. For murder.
Since there is discussion of a car in Lake Bardwell, I have attached images of the Bardwell spillway, and the route a body would have to take to get to where Emily was found. S-spillway, B-Ensign Road bridge, X-body location just 600 yards below bridge.
If she went in and drowned at the bridge (per LE), then she snagged up quickly just 600 yards downstream, per reports. If her car is found in the Lake and an accident is suspected, we would have to believe her body magically found the spillway (body would be directed by wind IMO), and didn't get stopped for miles down a narrow creek until it incredibly stopped just beyond the bridge in question. And the body remained in "pristine" condition while tumbling down the spillway and through a narrow creek embedded with snags. That cannot happen.
Need. Car. So I can dig in or move on.