Swimmer floating on his back.
It took five days before his body was found, floating in the Guadalupe delta of the Pasig River. He was immediately identified by the city’s search-and-rescue team, thanks to this odd-shaped birthmark on his face that nobody would ever miss.
His eyes were already popping out, the flesh underneath his skin too bloated to the point that they were ready to explode any minute. He might have been lying on the riverbed for quite some time now, and the forensics guy assumed he might have stayed longer underwater if not for a strong current bringing him back to the surface, getting him entangled in the overgrown kangkong shrubs that now serve as temporary dikes in that part of the river.