Marie Joseph's body might have been left in the cloudy water of a Massachusetts public swimming pool for more than two days, without lifeguards, health inspectors or other swimmers noticing it, said officials today. Well, at least they figured out why the water was cloudy...The state medical examiner completed an autopsy, but the findings haven't been made public yet, as investigators are going through hours of video and conducting interviews. Joseph had gone to Veterans Memorial Pool on Sunday with a group of friends, and her body was found Tuesday night, when some trespassing youngsters jumped over a fence for a midnight swim.
So for 48 hours, nobody reported her missing? Her friends said they thought she simply walked away from the pool. Her boyfriend's calls went unreturned, but he thought she wanted to be alone. Shit, you got a crappy circle of support. After the discovery, state officials closed 24 state-run deep-water swimming pools for fear of additional bodies being lost in cloudy water, as well as suspended staff at the Fall River pool along with a pair of Fall River inspectors.
Joseph was a native of Haiti and had five children, though strangely, only an adult son lived with her. She worked as a housekeeper at a hotel in Rhode Island, and her boyfriend said she could swim.
The best part of the article I read was a quote from Tasha Stokes, who said she visited the pool on Monday, and noticed that the deep end of the pool was white and closed to swimmers: "It was white. We went swimming in that water. There were little kids drinking that water...I'm shocked. I was swimming in water with a dead person. I think I have a lawsuit on my hands."
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