cause of death. >> i think with that length of time, we don't know show died on august 24th. it could have been sometime after that but for that length of time exposure of a body to the environment could result in complete skeletonization. a lot of soft tissue will be gone. so it's not a simple matter to say it looked -- the body looked like it could be gabby. you need more analysis than simply that. they described it as human remains. i don't know if that really indicates a certain level of decomposition or not but deceased around the end of august i would expect to have serious decomposition in that body making the identification that much more difficult. but the way we do dna analysis