You are a police officer? Because the body was already dead and in a private backyard, I doubt LE summoned paramedics or would have them just standing there holding a tarp for an indefinite period of time just because the dead body was nude. It isn't a practical utilization of taxpayer-funded resources to have paramedics remain there for such a purpose.
JMO
I am not a police officer. I am a member of our fire department and a certified first responder and have worked in that capacity with wrecks, accidents, murders, suicides etc. Our police are very happy to work with us , as is the coroner. We are an integral part of many scenes along with them. We don;t leave until they do and the scene is wrapped and everyone is gone.
I work in a more rural area and we are all fire dept, EMTs, first responders, etc who get no pay for what we do. We don't care if we have to spend hours on a scene where the victim was already dead when we arrived. We stay to assist LE, family, the coroner, and to assist the "paid officers and ambulance crew".
We are there to help however we can. There are few things we would turn our nose up at and say "that isn't my job". We just do it because that is what we would want done if it happened to us or our loved ones.
You need our boat to look for a drowning victim? We are there, spending our vacation days and gas money looking. Need someone to help clean up the scene so the family doesn't have to see their loved ones blood and brains on the scene after the body is gone, we can do that too and we have!! Scooped up brains and washed away blood, yep. Need us to stand in a perimeter holding tarps to shield the victim until the body can be removed. Yep, done that too.
I don't want to debate anyone on this or get anyone riled up. I'm just stated what WE do. I asked Mr Swamp (who has had 30 years exp with he fire dept and has been asst chief as well and showed him Rebecca's pic in the yard and he said "She should have been shielded or covered. It can be done".
But he is a man who doesn't know the meaning of the word "can't". He WILL get it done, even if he has to do it himself at his own cost or had to stand there himself doing it. But I guess that is just something that is so deeply ingrained in him. It can't taught or bought.
Again, I am not looking to fuss with anyone. I guess they did (in RZ's case) what they thought was the right thing to do according to their job description and position. I just see it way differently and thank goodness those I work with see it the same way too.
