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So when the police and coroner examined the body...

posted 10 years ago by FilmKoala
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Did they not notice the lack of a human skull? Or at least, the lack of human bones in the head region? They couldn't have noticed a smushed fly's head?

[–] PreachCaleb 10 years ago

They couldn't have noticed a smushed fly's head?

Considering it was six feet tall, no, they didn't. Who sees a human sized smushed head and says, "That's a fly head."

Can't stop the signal.

[–] CoriSCapnSkip (2754) 4 months ago

Good question!

[–] liscarkat (19416) 4 months ago

A multi-ton press would leave nothing but a puddle of mush. There wouldn't be any pieces large enough to identify. There was no DNA analysis in 1958. Not only that, but since a human-sized fly would not have even occurred to them, and the remaining body was human, they weren't looking for anything. They just assumed it was a routine suicide.