Fall River Mayor: Body May Have Been In Pool During Two Visits By Inspectors

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

“Wow! Can she ever hold her breath!”

[Buckeye McFrog]

Weekend at Bernies IV

[Hacklehead]

Unless the bottom of the pool was dark it should be easy to see a human shaped mass even under 12 feet of water.

[UCANSEE2]

What did the 9 y/o do after the "victim" vanished? Did he tell a lifeguard about the vanishing?

The 9 year old did notify the lifeguard that the woman who bumped into him as he was going down the slide, had disappeared.

The 9 year old was not 'with' Mrs. Joseph. She 'crashed' into him on the way down the slide (indicating that one of them hadn't 'waited' their 'turn'), and that may have knocked her unconscious.

(btw, I got all this info from the article at the link)

[UCANSEE2]

“The pool should be empty, pristine, and easy to view.” And don’t they have any life guards? And, what about the 9 year old? What relationship if any did he have to this woman? Was she there all alone?

(The answers to your questions are all in the article and video)

The pool was not CLEAR. The INSPECTOR even reported it was CLOUDY. You couldn't see the drain at the deep end.

They have several life guards, including one at the end of the SLIDE who is supposed to ensure that those who go DOWN, actually come back UP. The 9 year old boy even told the lifeguard the woman who crashed into him on the way down the slide, hadn't come back up. The guard said he would search for her. (but apparently didn't)

The 9 year old had no relationship to Mrs. Joseph. She just crashed into him on the way down the slide.

There were hundreds of other people, including several life guards, at the pool. There were several friends of Mrs. Joseph at the pool as well, and they waited for her until the pool closed. I hardly consider that to be 'alone'.

[PLMerite]

“The pool was not CLEAR. The INSPECTOR even reported it was CLOUDY. You couldn’t see the drain at the deep end.”

Ick. They’re supposed to do something about that. Cloudy water, coupled with the refraction in 12 feet could make it difficult to see something even human-sized at the bottom. I’d still fire everyone - lifeguards, inspectors - who should have been doing their job better.

[jocon307]

“I hardly consider that to be ‘alone’. “

No, I wouldn’t consider that to be alone either. And I did read the article posted and I even went through to one of the hyper-linked prior articles, but I didn’t see all that info.

Why didn’t her friends sound the alarm?

This gets into my Rule #2 - never leave your friend.

(these are the rules I always tried to drum into my kid’s head btw. And yeah, I broke most of them in my day, but I didn’t make a habit of breaking them, let’s put it that way.)

One commentor at one of the sites I read said they didn’t think the woman had really been in the pool 2-3 days, that she’d been done away with elsewhere and brought back and dumped there.

But I suppose an autopsy might shed some light on that theory.

How creepy would it be to find you’d been swimming in a pool with a dead body in it?

I wonder if this one will get “ripped from the headlines” for a TV show.

I hope they don’t decide to prevent this happening again by mandating all pools should now be 4 feet deep.