10ofRods
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I'm guessing he might have smelled something. Since the water had just receded, you'd think there would have been a pretty strong odor.
I think both parents were pretty sure from the first that Brian might have taken his life, and they knew where he was going so they felt something had been overlooked.
Not if the body was completely skeletonized - that part of decomp where it's smell was...over
(which is why I always prefer studying skeletons to bodies...)