Claudette
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Ok so TECHNICALLY it isn't a cold case because they "solved" it at the time but in my opinion it's worth revisiting. It's nagging at my brain enough that I need to know what someone else thinks.
This girl went missing July 6th while rowing in the pond on her family's property. She went missing, they combed through the pond and didn't find her. As the article quotes "had been dragged so many times fruitlessly". Eventually she turns up in the pond, sometime around July 27th when the article was published.
They determine it was an accident because her hand was still clutching a handkerchief. Um...so she falls in the water and doesn't release it to try to swim? Does that make any sense to you? Why would it make sense to them?
According to a railroad brakeman his train passed by and she stood up in the boat and waved her handkerchief.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F10715FE345A12738DDDAE0A94DF405B868CF1D3
So two questions I have:
- how long would it take for her to surface if she did in fact drown
- how realistic is it that she fell in and held onto the handkerchief
This girl went missing July 6th while rowing in the pond on her family's property. She went missing, they combed through the pond and didn't find her. As the article quotes "had been dragged so many times fruitlessly". Eventually she turns up in the pond, sometime around July 27th when the article was published.
They determine it was an accident because her hand was still clutching a handkerchief. Um...so she falls in the water and doesn't release it to try to swim? Does that make any sense to you? Why would it make sense to them?
According to a railroad brakeman his train passed by and she stood up in the boat and waved her handkerchief.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F10715FE345A12738DDDAE0A94DF405B868CF1D3
So two questions I have:
- how long would it take for her to surface if she did in fact drown
- how realistic is it that she fell in and held onto the handkerchief