S03.E08: A Normal, Boring Life

[Colorado David]

4 hours ago, millennium said:

19 months was the time span mentioned in episode 1, season 1.

I'm finding it hard to believe that the authorities never found out what was going at the village.   Wouldn't forensics and government TSA-ish gone out there and investigated post-rescue?  They would have found human bones with knife marks in them, maybe even teeth marks.  

Sorry not village, but to the crash site and teepee camp. So agree with this. Even if it is in Canada, I'm quite sure their equivalent TSA would investigate, and of course the canadian police. An entire plane doesnt crash and the whole event just gets ignored by all relevant authorities. UNLESS....everyone died and this is just post death dream experiences in Shauna's head. In which case she has a stephen king type mind that creates stories after tragic events. 

Edited April 5 by Colorado David
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[Anela]

28 minutes ago, Colorado David said:

Sorry not village, but to the crash site and teepee camp. So agree with this. Even if it is in Canada, I'm quite sure their equivalent TSA would investigate, and of course the canadian police. An entire plane doesnt crash and the whole event just gets ignored by all relevant authorities. UNLESS....everyone died and this is just post death dream experiences in Shauna's head. In which case she has a stephen king type mind that creates stories after tragic events. 

The media would have been all over it, too. I remember when I was in my teens, in the early nineties, seeing them on the TV, camped out in people's front gardens, if something big happened. They would have been all over that plane, and the whole area. 

Edited April 5 by Anela

[peachmangosteen]

The media was all over it. The media is even revisiting the story 25 years later.

Edited April 5 by peachmangosteen

[Anela]

11 minutes ago, peachmangosteen said:

The media was all over it. The media is even revisiting the story 25 years later.

Which means they had to have hidden the evidence of cannibalism.  Maybe they threw the bones in the lake.  

Edited April 5 by Anela

[Black Knight]

The media would have been all over the story, but they would not have gone to the site itself, which we now know is 100 miles from even an insertion/extraction point. They did the easy thing and jumped at the survivors at the airport.

Rescuers and recovery people, yes, some law enforcement. But Lottie's dad has dementia and is often confused about what time he is in. When he was talking about having stopped an investigation, he might not have meant Lottie's death.

[Anela]

I was picturing the national enquirer having people parachute into the area.

Radio guy Art Bell, would have been talking about them, too. 

Edited April 6 by Anela

[millennium]

16 hours ago, Colorado David said:

Sorry not village, but to the crash site and teepee camp.

I believe in a recent episode Natalie referred to the camp as the village, which is why I used that word.

16 hours ago, Colorado David said:

Even if it is in Canada, I'm quite sure their equivalent TSA would investigate, and of course the canadian police. An entire plane doesnt crash and the whole event just gets ignored by all relevant authorities.

Not only that, but relatives would be clamoring for the remains of the deceased, insisting, demanding, threatening  ...  And unless obsessive compulsive tidiness was part of the wilderness mania, I'm not sure they could have hidden every last bone fragment.   Just as an example, do you remember the guy who murdered his wife and put her body through a wood chipper in Connecticut (what Shauna would call Cuisinart) and blew her pureed body out into a lake?  State authorities had a forensic team and divers out to there for days until they recovered tooth fragments that sealed the husband's doom.  

I'm guessing they would also have cadaver dogs out at the Yellowjackets site and Luminol maybe.  For a show that features "Citizen Detectives," the writers have thus far been pretty sloppy with the possibilities of crime scene forensics.

And by the way, where's Crystal's body? 

Shauna's becoming more horrible with every episode.

Edited April 6 by millennium

[Black Knight]

How likely would authorities be to think that they need to send out crime scene forensic specialists? This is a bunch of teenage girls. And the rescue occurred in 1997, well before the internet became anything like it is now. I think this is somewhat a function of the fact that we're seeing everything from the girls' POVs and we saw the opening. But if we forget all of that and just look at it as someone in the outside world who knows nothing except that a plane crashed and everyone was assumed dead and suddenly it turns out there are some survivors, most people would just think that's amazing, not start thinking that law enforcement needs to go out with luminol and treat the camp site as a crime scene.

What I'm guessing we're going to get is that law enforcement did figure that they must have eaten people in order to stay alive, but that it was like the soccer team in the Andes - survival cannibalism - and because these were traumatized teenage girls, law enforcement wanted to cut them a break. And Lottie's father may have been very involved in hushing that up.

I looked up the aftermath of the Andes crash, and it's pretty instructive. There's no mention of an investigation to make sure none of the dead people had been murdered, even though there were some rumors of it. All of the bodies were simply buried in a common grave close to the site of the ordeal (so they were never even taken away for careful forensic examinations), and family members were not allowed to attend. 12 workers and a priest handled the task of the burial, and then they set fire to the plane.

Don't get me wrong, Tai's right that they should clean things up, and they need a story. But I think a that an assumption that the instinctive reaction by authorities would be for a full CSI-style investigation with an eye towards proving or disproving the possibility of murder is off-base. Especially since, again, these are teenage girls.

[sistermagpie]

39 minutes ago, Black Knight said:

Don't get me wrong, Tai's right that they should clean things up, and they need a story. But I think a that an assumption that the instinctive reaction by authorities would be for a full CSI-style investigation with an eye towards proving or disproving the possibility of murder is off-base. Especially since, again, these are teenage girls.

Also, the authorities and people back home failed these kids by not finding them, so they're starting off as heroes who survived despite being forgotten and written off for dead by their families. That's even more reason for people to think twice about judging how they might have survived. That inclues relatives who are thinking of demanding remains of people who potentially died over a year ago. Except for Crystal whose body disappeared, all these people got some version of ceremony of honor in death.

Edited April 6 by sistermagpie