Jake Rice

At the time, there was no one living in the house.

The owners were renovating it to either rent or sell, and it had been vacant for quite some time.

In the house, there was no furniture, as in beds, any kind of dressers, anything of that sort.

There was a bathtub, a sink, and a toilet in the bathroom.

From the reports that we have from back then, the individual said he unlocked the front door, and as you went in the door, there was a small hallway, and to the left would have been a bathroom.

And that's where he was going to do the work on the floor.

The water was extremely dark, like muddy in color.

Water could be that dark because of the work being done there.

If they were using the bathtub, have it filled with water for rags, anything else that they were doing.

We know that it had been raining and was muddy of the 13th at least of August.

Well, we do know that there was a couple windows that were cracked, but they appeared that nobody had went through them.

It's noted that one of the doors was locked from over near the carport, but it was not pulled all the way shut.

So someone could have thought that they locked the door, but didn't, and it didn't pull all the way shut.

But the doors were locked, but one of them was partially open.

So the police department, of course, was trying to figure out, was there anyone missing in the area that had been reported missing, runaway, anything else?

So at that point in time, they asked for any photographs and for fingerprints of that individual from Eastern State.

Those were sent to the chief medical examiner's office, and the chief medical examiners notified back that that was not the individual that they had had at their office.

Later was learned from the autopsy that was done is that there was contusions that were all over her body on her arms, her neck area, and on her head.

And these contusions were not from blunt force trauma, but of some sort of force.

So by reading that, it would go along with someone forcefully holding her under the water.