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  • The determination is made by the circumstances under which the body is found; I was trying to imply this in my last post. If a body is found with no evidence as to how it got there or why the person in question is a corpse, we don’t just shrug and go about our business.

    Just to clarify, she was quite alive before going to the hospital, and was still alive hours after arriving there. They couldn’t keep her alive, but she wasn’t a random corpse that ended up being found in the woods somewhere - she was found on the steps of a home close to where she lives.

    Did the home belong to people she knows (i.e. walked there and then something happened that left her in the cold), or was she put there? If she was put there, why? Someone who intended to kill her would certainly not put her somewhere safe to be found by others.

    This case absolutely warrants an investigation, but I will still say that some of the most important details are missing here. We simply don’t know enough to draw conclusions from a single family member who wasn’t even the first person to find the deceased.

    I’m maintaining my original point that frostbite/hypothermia do not cause internal bleeding on their own, which is patently true, and answering what seem to be questions.

    For sure, not out of the blue. That’s why information like “how did she get there?” and “how was she brought into the home?” are critical. Injuries happen if you fall after being disorientated, as one might be if they are suffering from hypothermia. Or they can happen if you’re being moved without care. These don’t necessarily point to homicide, and could very well fit the “medical incident” narrative being told by the RCMP.

    I hope that the reports follow this case, because now I’m quite interested in the outcome. I feel terrible for the family. She was a mother and had quite a few grandkids.


  • That’s because they didn’t suspect foul play, and they had no reason to look for internal injuries.

    But if there’s a possibility of internal injury, medical staff will check for it.

    That’s the thing, though. How is that determination made? And did the hospital tell the police, or only the sister?

    We must be missing some key information that hopefully the coroner (and the investigation) can shed light on.

    Keep in mind, most of what we know is coming from the sister, who appears to have only appeared on the scene after her sister had been moved to the kitchen of the home with heaters set up to warm her up.

    We know nothing about whether April was found without a jacket (temps were -20C that day) or bleeding or anything, really. Was she dragged into the home by the people helping her (which could cause internal bleeding), or was she carried in, or did she walk in??

    We are so in the dark here. I’d really not speculate any more, because I can think of 101 scenarios both supporting homicide or an accident.





  • I agree with you 100%. Institutionalized racism is still quite common.

    My issue is the reporting. Any time a tragedy happens, families always say “my loved one would never do that” or “I don’t think this was an accident.”.

    Grief has you looking for anything that makes sense, but the opinions of family aren’t fact, and there are details that should have been left out of the report, since it’s all speculation.

    The important part is that an investigation has been launched, and the family can get more answers than they were given.



  • But neither frostbite nor hypothermia cause internal bleeding.

    The hypothesis is that someone experiencing hypothermia may not have the ability to coordinate their movements, resulting in falls or impacts to their body, leading to possible internal bleeding.

    They didn’t specify where this internal bleeding came from, and I find it odd that they would be looking for internal bleeding in an apparent case of hypothermia. But I’ll repeat, I’m not a doctor, so I have no idea what the protocol is for something like that.

    I do know that my wife was once hypothermic after falling into frozen water, and they didn’t do any internal diagnostics.