Given how tepid the piece is, there may have been paraphernalia suggesting behavior that is deemphasizing homicide (perhaps mistakenly) to the investigators.
“It is filled with very cautious language (surely taken right from police press releases), which might be intentional to not feed into what is now turning into intense scrutiny over every suspicious death in New England.”
It is “strongly suggestive of someone who did not have any post-mortem artifacts that would negate the need to check for vital signs needed to make a pronouncement,” he added.
When police arrive to allegations of an unresponsive person.
“There is no need to look for a pulse if a person is in full rigor mortis because this condition indicates that they are definitely dead.
Therefore, in contrast to the previous deaths that are being linked to the [New England] serial killer, this one is quite recent,” he continued.
