FALL RIVER (FOX25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - The body of a Fall River woman was discovered floating in a state run pool late Tuesday night, two days after she apparently drowned in that same pool.
Police say lifeguards were on duty and people were swimming in the Veterans Memorial pool at Lafayette Park Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and it appears no one noticed the dead body.
FALL RIVER (FOX25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - The body of a Fall River woman was discovered floating in a state run pool late Tuesday night, two days after she apparently drowned
I have heard some unbelievable news stories and this is right up there at the top. How did the 9 yr old get home and who else did he tell about her drowning that did or said nothing?
FALL RIVER (FOX25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - The body of a Fall River woman was discovered floating in a state run pool late Tuesday night, two days after she apparently drowned
I have heard some unbelievable news stories and this is right up there at the top. How did the 9 yr old get home and who else did he tell about her drowning that did or said nothing?
went searching for more info on this. comments from another site led me to comments here. Interesting info from someone that was at the pool!
dontassume
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First Off I think its already been determined that this poor woman did NOT break into this pool after hours. To everyone who thinks it could not have been possible for to miss a body in the bottom of a pool. You are dead wrong simply put. Heres why: I was there everyday with my family from Sunday thru Tuesday at closing time and I was in the water very close to the deep end and didnt see her. reason being is On Sunday they pool personnell decided they were closing off the deep end (where the slide is and diving boards) they did this because the water was murky and you could NOT see to the bottom. I watched them dump chemicals in during pool check to try to clear it out. This didnt work. (probably because there was this poor woman down there). now on Monday we arrived and again the same side was closed for the same reasons and again on Tuesday when we arrived so it is very possible the reason the water was 'murky'' Was that there was someone down the bottom who was deceased. and for all of you who think she would have floated you are wrong especially if she was stuck on a drain or filter which could also have contributed to the water being dirty cuz if it was blocked the water could not filter correctly. Hindsight is definitely 20⁄20 and being there and seeing the water conditions along with whats been reported I absolutely agree that it is definitely possible she was there since Sunday and someone dropped the ball 'IF' this child did report her missing to pool staff who by the way the whole 3 days i was there did nothing but text on phones, read and talk to one another or pool goers instead of doing their jobs. I seen 2 young children nearly drown while i was in the water and no staff member came in after them both times another person in the pool came into action and saved the child. In my opinion 16 is way too young to be responsible for the lives of others, the lifeguards should be trained adults. Put these 16 yr olds to work elsewhere in the city if need be.
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My thoughts and Prayers are with this womans' family may she rest in peace. I hope she did not pass in vain. Let this be a lesson that can be learned from. whether it is by inspecting all public pools to make sure proper drain and filter covers are in place so that this does not happen again. Or by training proper personnel to guard our pools. and definitely by showing parents how quickly accidents can happen. On Sunday alone there were as many as 60 children riding down that slide and diving board but there might have been half as many parents watching their children do so. They trusted in the teenage lifeguards to keep their children safe, which is their Job as Parents to do. Come on if an adult woman could have drowned (unseen) then your children could have also even faster perhaps.
A murky, state-run Fall River pool was cleared by city health inspectors for public use Tuesday even as a dead woman’s body was apparently submerged (NOT FLOATING) in the deep end, and swimmers told the Herald the water was so dark they couldn’t even see their feet.
Yet, in a startling development yesterday, Fall River Mayor William Flanagan said two city inspectors passed by the Veteran’s Memorial Pool on Monday, noticed it open despite an expired city permit, but failed to order it closed.
When they returned Tuesday to inspect Veteran’s, they deemed the water “cloudy,” yet passed the pool anyway because the chlorine and pH levels checked out normal, Flanagan said.
Later that night, city officials said a young couple who jumped the pool’s 7-foot fence for an illicit, after-hours dip discovered the body of 36-year-old Marie Joseph.
The gruesome discovery has touched off a “top-to-bottom review” by the Department of Conservation and Recreation of all 24 state-run pools that were closed Wednesday, but Gov. Deval Patrick said he hopes to reopen them by the Fourth of July.
Edward Lambert Jr., DCR commissioner and former Fall River mayor, said he also put the “pool’s entire staff” on administrative leave, the same step Flanagan took for his health inspectors.
“We express our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Marie Joseph,” Lambert said in a statement yesterday, adding his agency is cooperating with a police probe.
At a press conference in Fall River, Lambert dodged a reporter’s question about the pool’s condition, saying only, “Pools are subject to inspection, and we believe it was opened appropriately.”
A Patrick administration spokeswoman later told the Herald the state health rules require water to be tested at least four times a day, adding that pools are vacuumed and cleaned every one to three days.
I would like to say now that after talking to my pool girl she said that in NH if the pool water is not clear they close the pool. This event may be spun by the Mass. liberals as a result of budget cuts. Watch and see how this gets twisted around.
The 36-year-old Fall River woman found floating in a local, state-owned public pool Tuesday night died as a result of an accidental drowning on Sunday afternoon and had remained submerged for nearly three days in water already murky just 24 hours after the pool opened for the summer season, prosecutors revealed today.
An autopsy of Marie Joseph found she died of “asphyxiation by drowning” and that her body had remained at the bottom of the 12-foot deep end of the Veteran’s Memorial Pool in Fall River until it rose to the surface Tuesday evening as a result of “natural post-mortem changes of the human body,” (BLOATING) according to a statement released by Bristol District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter.
“The investigation thus far establishes that the water in the pool was murky and cloudy from the time the pool opened for the season on Saturday, June 25th until the pool was closed by the pool staff on Tuesday afternoon,” Sutter said. “Visibility tests conducted with a police diver on Wednesday, June 29th, revealed that a submerged diver could not be seen at a depth of three-and-a-half to four feet below the surface of the water at the pool’s deep end.”
god this is so disgusting. so that pool had not been cleaned in three days, that we know of. That could by why it was so murky in the first place, how long had it been since it was cleaned before that? Gross. Poor lady... so much wrong in this story. I really want to know more of the supposed story of the kid telling the lifeguard about it and the lifeguard not doing anything about it. And how the kid got home, and no one noticed this poor woman gone.
How the hell could someone overlook a dead body floating in a public pool for 2 damn days? HOW HORRIBLE!
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