Just jumping off your post...
what if chemicals were used in an even more sinister way...
Like forced ingestion?
I have a med school diploma from the interent. I will have to get verified just as soon as the printer ink is dry.
Anyway, I believe that any marks left on her after death are totally different than when one is alive and blood is circulating.
If any of you remember those cousins that killed all of those girls in was it CA or Washington? I forget.
They would be sure to put the victims out where they would be found. They were very much displayed.
As time went on, they began to experiment. LE could not figure out what a blue fluid was that they found injected into the girls. The pukes were experimenting to see what would happen if you injected someone with Windex.
They would put a plastic bag over the victim's head, have her almost die, take it off, and start over again. These were experiments. Of course, they did not start out this way. They became more and more creative as they went along.
BTW, ,this was the last Ann Rule book I ever read. That was enough for me.
So, was this a sloppy crime, or is this an experienced person doing their tricks?
If there was water in her lungs, she was alive when that process started. Or , it could be that there were those chemicals on her body or clothing to wash her off, as was suggested.
Some things LE collects take awhile to be processed. They have to wait. Who knows how much labs are backed up or how long it takes some cultures to grow, etc.
At any rate, this family is under an unlucky star. I have a few of the items listed such as pool chemicals, garbage bags and toilet paper. The rest of the items, no. Belts of that size, restraints, a tarp of that color, red duct tape, Walmart bags, cats. Nope. None of those items.
However, I do have rope and bungee straps, so those would have been seized perhaps. They just have the bad luck of having actual restraints,