SpanishInquisition
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My understanding that it's a standard procedure and after autopsy, the body is turned over to the family.
What exactly do you expect LE to do with the body?
It decays. It's not going to hold forever.
In some cases, suspects aren't found or found years later. Do you expect LE keep the body for years and years?
Most people die by natural death, so yes, once the coroner determines it wasn't a homicide you'd expect them to turn over the body to the family as by definition the family can't suspects in a natural death. This is not some cold case and it is undisputed that the Meyers were armed and fired that night, so you can reasonably expect that anyone charged is going to say that someone else did it or they were shooting because the deceased was shooting at them first and during the active police investigation you could later determine one or more of the Meyers are suspects even if EN was the shooter. You don't turn over your evidence to potential murder suspects during an active investigation. If there is indeed more that the police aren't saying publicly, that is all the more reason you don't turn it over to those potentially involved in some kind of criminal conspiracy. If there was a criminal conspiracy of some kind, it's not surprising that you'd instantly see a cremation done, but that's not to say that cremation is proof of a criminal conspiracy. If this was related to a drug deal gone bust where the Meyers were attempting some type of violent felony when their plans went awry and TM died and LE is being coy on the drug angle, all the Meyers in the household would be potential Aggravated Felony Murder suspects even if there's definitive proof none of the Meyers fired the fatal round.