Cook was sentenced for second-degree murder, two years after a man's decomposed body was found floating in a barrel. NBC 7's Nicole Gomez reports. Prosecutors said Spurgeon allowed Cook to use his boat and helped him weigh down a 55-gallon drum containing Medina's body, which was later found floating in the bay. When police pulled the barrel to the shore and opened it, they found a body inside, so badly decomposed that it took the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office about six weeks to identify. According to the autopsy report, Medina was able to be identified in part by fingerprints and the tattoo of a five-pointed star on his left ankle.