• Body found in packed Massachusetts public pool had been there for days, no one noticed
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[release]BOSTON -- A woman's body went undetected in a Fall River public pool for days as swimmers continued to use the pool before the victim was found floating, police said Wednesday. The body of Marie Joseph, 36, was found in the Vietnam Veterans Swimming Pool at Lafayette Park at about 10 p.m. Tuesday. Joseph had gone to the pool on Sunday with a 9-year-old neighbor and his family. Joseph and the boy went down a slide at the pool about 2 p.m. The boy surfaced, but the woman did not. "The boy stated that once he was in the water after coming down the slide, Marie unexpectedly slid down the slide, landing on top of him. He further stated that Marie went under the water and did not surface," Fall River Police Chief Daniel Racine said. Lifeguards searched the area and found Joseph's identification and belongings at the pool. Police went to her home, but she was not there. Neighbors said the pool only opened for the summer four days ago and it closed at 5 p.m. Tuesday. About five hours later, someone saw what they thought was a body floating in the pool and called police. Police returned to Joseph's home and it was then that officials learned she had gone to the pool days earlier with the boy, who was not harmed. "As of right now, there is so much that has not been determined. We do have a tragic death," Bristol County District Attorney Samuel Sutter said. A photographer for The Herald News was at the pool on Monday, and snapped pictures of the pool packed with swimmers. The Department of Conservation and Recreation, which operates the pool, has closed all DCR deepwater swimming pools until further notice. "All 30 of DCR's deepwater pools will be closed while we conduct a full review of each facility's safety and operational procedures over the next 24 to 48 hours," Department of Conservation and Recreation Commissioner Edward M. Lambert, Jr. said in a statement. The state has also placed all DCR employees at the Fall River pool on administrative leave. Joseph was the mother of three children. [/release] [url=http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/28398334/detail.html#ixzz1QhvIaj1M]Source: WCVB-TV[/url] [release]FALL RIVER — Marie Joseph, 36, of Fall River, has been identified as the person found floating in the state-operated public pool at Lafayette Park Tuesday at 10 p.m. Police are investigating her death and trying to determine if she had been in the water since Sunday. Meanwhile, the entire staff of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial swimming pool at the park has been placed on administrative leave, the state Department of Conservation and Recreation announced Wednesday afternoon. A group of teenagers who went to the pool at 10 p.m., after it was closed, spotted the body and called police. The woman was found floating inside the pool. She was extracted by Emergency Medical Service personnel and taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead. The pool is operated by the state Department of Conservation and Recreation. The pool, which opened for the summer this week, was closed Tuesday night. It is surrounded by a 7-foot fence that was locked when the woman was found. “She was located by some young people who were in the park,” LeFleur said. “They immediately called the police.” DCR Commissioner Edward M. Lambert Jr, a former Fall River mayor, said that by 5:30 p.m. Wednesday all 30 DCR-operated deepwater pools will be closed for inspection and safety reviews for 24 to 48 hours. "On behalf of the Department of Conservation and Recreation, we express our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Marie Joseph," Lambert said. "We will continue to cooperate fully with local and state law enforcement during their ongoing investigation," he said. This story will be updated. Read more: [url]http://www.heraldnews.com/archive/x2108625076/Police-investigating-death-of-woman-at-Veteran-Memorial-Pool-overnight#ixzz1Qi8vMylj[/url] [/release] [url=http://www.heraldnews.com/archive/x2108625076/Police-investigating-death-of-woman-at-Veteran-Memorial-Pool-overnight#ixzz1Qi8vMylj]Source: The Herald News[/url] How does someone [i]not[/i] notice a dead body decaying at the bottom of a pool????
:ohdear: Imagine your kids swimming in a pool, then seeing a body float up in front of them! [B]EDIT:[/B] Funny ratings? Really now?
I can't believe people are this stupid. Dead bodies tend to be very, very distinct. It took them five hours for somebody to call?
I guess she took the dead man's float a bit too seriously :j
This reminds me of this giant pool in Japan. At the end of they day, they would had to net bodies out of the water. :ohdear:
There's a joke about people's stupidity somewhere in here but I can't find it. This is depressing.
How could NO ONE notice rotting body. I'm sure that the body would stink up the pool.
Oh my god this is really horrific, swimming in a pool were someone is decomposing.
That must be scary as fuck to find a dead body at the bottom of a pool where you're swimming in.
[QUOTE=Rocko's;30788166]How could NO ONE notice rotting body. I'm sure that the body would stink up the pool.[/QUOTE] I'm not entirely sure but decomp might take longer in water, it depends on quite a few conditions.
Yeah Scooby, specially with all the chlorine in there, the conditioned water may have slowed things down.
[QUOTE=Sc00by22;30788574]I'm not entirely sure but decomp might take longer in water, it depends on quite a few conditions.[/QUOTE] Have you seen a dead body in water even after a few days? It looks barely human.
Am I the only one slightly confused by the article saying that the kid saw that she didn't surface, yet he didn't actually say anything about it. You'd think he would say something if he knew the person...
Speaking as a lifeguard... this is unbelievable. [I]Days?[/I] Really? You're supposed to be able to notice something wrong in 10 seconds at the maximum, and get to them in another 20 seconds max. If you can't do that, you've pretty much failed. Truly horrifying negligence.
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human tissue starts decaying 7 hours after that, so 5 hours should only release some bowel movements and gases
She went with her neighbors, totally vanished and they didn't notice, not even the kid she landed on? The kid noticed she didn't come up, even! I bet there's foul play about!
So that is where I left that body....
to think someone accidentally swallowed the water there...
[QUOTE=DrBreen;30790406]human tissue starts decaying 7 hours after that, so 5 hours should only release some bowel movements and gases[/QUOTE] She was there Sunday at 2pm She was found Tuesday at 10pm. The '5 hours' is after closing time on Tuesday, not how long she'd been there
Eugh, this reminds me of the plane pilot from Hatchet.
[QUOTE=Mataata;30791138]Eugh, this reminds me of the plane pilot from Hatchet.[/QUOTE] Except she wasn't completely decomposed when they found here.
[QUOTE=DrBreen;30790406]human tissue starts decaying 7 hours after that, so 5 hours should only release some bowel movements and gases[/QUOTE] The public pools in and around Boston suck, I should know I live near this place. Some are murky too, but yeah even so, how do they NOT notice that
I thought I had chosen the perfect place to hide the damned body...
[QUOTE=Rocko's;30788166]How could NO ONE notice rotting body. I'm sure that the body would stink up the pool.[/QUOTE] Well it's filled with chlorine so it would take a lot longer for it to start to decompose since there aren't enough bacteria to help.
[quote]found in the Vietnam Veterans Swimming Pool[/quote] There's a joke in here I know.
I'm sure since it was a public pool this is what happened: Every couple of days a large mass of poop gathers together and sort of floats around the bottom(hehe, poop on the bottom) of the pool, from all the skanky people that go there. No one mentions it because at the end of the day it's about having fun swimming, no one wants the pool shutdown at least not until after they go home. So here we are Sunday, the end of the busy weekend- the poop to water ratio must have been impressive indeed. So someone drowns and the body sinks down into the poop clump. If you're a lifeguard there do you really want to even go in that pool, much less swim down into the poop to retrieve a dead body? Hell naw! They don't pay you enough for that. So you just don't 'see' it happen, the way you don't see that kid crapping at the far end of the pool. Next thing you know, it's Tuesday. The pool workers draw lots to see who has to be the poop scooper tonight. The rest, as they say, is history.
[QUOTE=ProffesorAssHat;30788232]That must be scary as fuck to find a dead body at the bottom of a pool where you're swimming in.[/QUOTE] I have yet to stumble across a dead body. Looking forward to it in way.
[QUOTE=Gekkosan;30804795]I have yet to stumble across a dead body. Looking forward to it in way.[/QUOTE] Stiffs aren't pretty. Trust me. :ohdear:
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;30804947]Stiffs aren't pretty. Trust me. :ohdear:[/QUOTE] didn't expect them to be
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