Dead body in pool for days, nobody noticed

WTF?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/30/massachusetts.pool.woman.body/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

I just realized I posted this in the completely wrong area. Bugger.

"I thought he was practicing... Buoyancy!"

Ok...ewww!!

How does this happen? Did the little boy that bumped her not notice when she didn't come up?

One report I heard was that the boy told lifeguards that his mom sank and didn't come back up, but they did nothing. This report doesn't say what happened to the boy for the time between then and when they actually found his mom...

I smell a lawsuit against Vietnam Memorial Pill.

Yeah, this is pretty bad.

Not quite the same thing, but about a year ago a motel guest was reported "missing" (she never got to her destination). The last place she was "seen" was in her motel room. That is, no one saw her after she checked in. Anyway, after she "disappeared" the police were called and she was reported missing. Searches of the motel room (ostensibly for clues) revealed not much of anything. After about 5 or 6 months the maids FINALLY started to smell something "funky" about the room. Turns out, the woman was murdered and shoved under the bed...I'm guessing between the mattress and box spring/pedestal? The room had been rented by 3 or 4 guests who (apparently?) never noticed anything odd about the bed or the smell of the room.

This happened in Memphis.

Have you ever looked under your motel room bed? I think I shall start.

Twenty-four state pools have also been closed pending further investigation, according to Lambert.

I guess they're looking for more bodies?

integraguy wrote: Turns out, the woman was murdered and shoved under the bed...I'm guessing between the mattress and box spring/pedestal? The room had been rented by 3 or 4 guests who (apparently?) never noticed anything odd about the bed or the smell of the room. This happened in Memphis.

I remember this there was a wood box around the bed she was inside the box under the box spring....

As for the curent case the family waited for her untill the pool closed....they thought she had left.....The staff found her phone and clothes too...WTF is right. Guess they need some clarifer in the water....oh the pool inspectors were there when she was under.

always check between the mattress and springs when in a motel. Businessmen have a tradition of leaving, uhh,,,,,,photographic reading material......between the mattresses. You'd be amazed how many hotel beds have magazines tucked away in there......

I learned this several years ago from a chemical salesman I knew. Ever since then I check the beds. Some of the stuff I've found is frightening,

And all this time I've been cutting them up and feeding them to pigs or freezing them to throw off the time of death... who knew you could just toss them into a public pool and be done with it?

What kind of pool is so clouded that the bottom isn't visible, yet one that apparently no one had any issues about swimming in?

Sad, and, ewww.

Yeah, this is pretty bad.

Not quite the same thing, but about a year ago a motel guest was reported "missing" (she never got to her destination). The last place she was "seen" was in her motel room. That is, no one saw her after she checked in. Anyway, after she "disappeared" the police were called and she was reported missing. Searches of the motel room (ostensibly for clues) revealed not much of anything. After about 5 or 6 months the maids FINALLY started to smell something "funky" about the room. Turns out, the woman was murdered and shoved under the bed...I'm guessing between the mattress and box spring/pedestal? The room had been rented by 3 or 4 guests who (apparently?) never noticed anything odd about the bed or the smell of the room.

This happened in Memphis.

This reminds me of the movie Four Rooms

That happens to me all the time.

As easy as it is to point fingers at the pool admin/employees, I'm a little more impressed with the swimmers lack of awareness. Every one of them up until that last kid who, what sounds like, dive bombed her from the slide.

Wow.

I loved the little bit of info the evening news gave tonight on swimming in pools:

"...if you can't see the bottom of the pool, don't swim there".

Really scary? A lifeguard on the ABCNEWS broadcast shrugged this off ("losing" people on the bottom of a pool) as a common occurance.

integraguy wrote: ... A lifeguard on the ABCNEWS broadcast shrugged this off ("losing" people on the bottom of a pool) as a common occurance.

Makes me want to ask him WTF is he there for then...

It's a little weird that no one saw her at the bottom of the pool.

kinda reminds me of....

pilotbraden wrote: Yeah, this is pretty bad. Not quite the same thing, but about a year ago a motel guest was reported "missing" (she never got to her destination). The last place she was "seen" was in her motel room. That is, no one saw her after she checked in. Anyway, after she "disappeared" the police were called and she was reported missing. Searches of the motel room (ostensibly for clues) revealed not much of anything. After about 5 or 6 months the maids FINALLY started to smell something "funky" about the room. Turns out, the woman was murdered and shoved under the bed...I'm guessing between the mattress and box spring/pedestal? The room had been rented by 3 or 4 guests who (apparently?) never noticed anything odd about the bed or the smell of the room. This happened in Memphis. This reminds me of the movie Four Rooms

We had this in Atlantic City too.. not in one of the casinos, but one of the non-casino Hotels. Body was found between the mattress and the boxspring

I ran a pool for a few years, the water isn't that hard to keep clear. BTW-if the inspector can't see the bottom of the pool they are supposed to cite you. The only thing I can think might give the guards a slight break is if the slide had water flowing down it which would cause the surface of the water to be almost impossible to see through at the bottom of the slide. On the other hand that is one of the MANY reasons they usually assign a guard specifically to each attraction.

I was a lifeguard for a little while in high school but some blue kid got me fired.

Wally wrote: I was a lifeguard for a little while in high school but some blue kid got me fired.

that's weak. he grew up to have a pretty successful stage show playing drums made of PVC pipe and stuff.

Dead woman discovered in her car a year after her death.

jstein77 wrote: Dead woman discovered in her car a year after her death.

you guys know i'm not typically a sensitive person, but this story is really tragic. can you imagine if that was a Yenko Deuce?

Poor little Nova. I wonder if you can get the smell out. My fiance has to clean up crime scenes sommetimes for work so she might be able to.