Missing Lambertville Woman Sarah Majoras Linked To Unsolved 2000 Death Of Friend (UPDATED BODY FOUND)
Updated: The body of Sarah Majoras was recovered from the Delaware/Raritan Canal today and is awaiting autopsy with the Medical Examiner
Sarah Majoras was a well known and well liked bartender at the New Hope leather-clad watering hole John & Peters.
While she was not working her barista shift Friday evening into early Saturday morning, Majoras was enjoying a night out with friends there and left her party on foot at about 2AM.
Majoras was last seen crossing the bridge connecting New Hope to Lambertville, presumably headed to her N. Union St apartment. Surveillance video of Sarah crossing the E. Bridge St walkway over the Delaware River to Lambert Lane has confirmed Majoras made it to the other side at approximately 2:30 am Saturday morning.
Adam Baker, Sarah’s live-in boyfriend, called police at 2PM Saturday to report her missing. Baker is a moving and relocation business owner with a registered address located 300 feet from John and Peter’s Bar.
Baker is no stranger to missing person’s cases. In October 2000, a friend of Baker’s on his way to visit with him ended up missing after crossing the very same canal. David Anderson was recovered 4 days later in the Delaware Canal spillway. An autopsy of Anderson was inconclusive and the details of the circumstances surrounding his death are scarce.
Hunterdon County Prosecutor Anthony Kearns:
“It’s still an active investigation,” said Kearns. “We’re treating the case like a missing person case at this point.”
Majoras was last seen wearing a green camouflage army jacket, white knit cap, and glasses. She is 5 foot 4 inches tall and weighs 140 pounds.
Anyone with Information about Sarah Majoras is asked to contact the New Hope Police Department or the Lambertville Police.
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Thank you for clarifying this for me. I misinterpreted the remark to mean they were no longer in a relationship rather than they were not in each other’s company that evening.
I am confused about the location of Bridge St. Lock. It makes sense that it is in the location surrounding the Bridge St. bridge and is a non-working lock. Is this correct?
I don’t think Sarah could have returned along that bridge and fell/got pushed in–the surveillance footage was pretty good.
But, if she was encountered at Coryell and that section of water is considered the Bridge Street Lock, I can understand how she ended up there.
I see that the towpath is asphalt near Finkle’s and there are low, wooden guardrails along the D & R canal.
Finkle’s is left of where Sarah was located. It is POSSIBLE she went into the canal and ended up via a frozen canal and non-existant current into the Bridge St Lock ( right of bridge) towpath, but her boot was definitely found “up canal”.
I don’t know how this is going to shake out, but I will tell you nobody in this community believes she fell in accidentally.
B
Blink,
Is it possible for you to do a map of sorts
Where she was located vs.where she was seen on
Cctv crossing roads and the bridge and also
Vs. Where her boot was found?
Hi B, I also live in Lambertville and am extremely disturbed about this case. The most disturbing thing is the fact that the police and interested parties seem to be going to great lengths to stop any discussion about foul play. The comments of AJ as well as the administrators at the “Find Sarah Majoras” Facebook page are some examples. The admins at the site were aggressively deleting any comments that suggested foul play and in fact pleaded with visitors on the FAQ section to NOT mention anything about Adam Baker out of “respect” for him. Huh?
Word Girl, I am also confused as to where they found her body and the boot. As far as I know, there is no Bridge street lock, unless there is a lock mechanism beneath bridge street itself, which is possible. My understanding is they found her body near the spillway. There is a boom in the water there that prevents large debris from clogging the spillway. I thought this is where she was found but please someone correct me if I’m wrong.
And just to clear up a misconception, the canal often has a very strong current. In fact I walked that section of the canal this morning and it was flowing as fast as the river. But none of this explains how she got into the canal and how she went through the ice without screaming for help. If she had fallen in at the edge of the canal, she would have been standing in knee deep water, the water doesn’t get deep until the center of the canal. And there are hundreds of residents within ear shot and no one heard anything?
B – If you are a local, I would love to talk to you about this. As a father and husband I am very concerned and upset at the way this is being handled, especially if there is still a guilty party out there.
At this point I think this woman did not fall into the canal. She was either pushed into it or was killed and then placed there. We don’t have a autopsy report so we cannot know the cause of death.
She would have known all of the dangerous places and avoided them even if she were compromised by drugs or alcohol.
I did some digging after my post above, (sorry Blink , didn’t see your response to Word Girl before I posted)
the street view on google caught my eye at the intersection of Bridge street and Lambert. The cross walk has slash lines running through it, the only one I could see on the aerial view and street view.
There is surveillance photos released that show Sarah crossing that crosswalk, which to me, shows she did in fact take Lambert to Coryell as her friends or someone had posted about her usual path.
Hopefully the links will work if you click on them, if not, just use
google to see what I’m refering to.
Also, I have a link for the Locke that I believe Blink is referrring to,,,, If she was found by this locke, that is the opposite direction of where she was seen crossing the crosswalk,,,,,,,,, IMO
PHOTO #4
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/gallery?section=news/local&id=8972071&photo=4
BRIDGE STREET LOCKE??
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&rlz=1W1ADRA_en&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&biw=1152&bih=523&wrapid=tlif135999883260710&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=bridge+street+locke+lambertville+nj&fb=1&gl=us&hq=bridge+street+locke+lambertville+nj&cid=0,0,1732310413506312059&sa=X&ei=g-8PUcDNOInGiwKhiYHQBQ&ved=0CHkQ_BIwAw
STREET VIEW OF LAMBERT/BRIDGE STREET
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&rlz=1R2ADRA_enUS352&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.41867550,d.cGE&biw=1152&bih=523&wrapid=tlif135999906050910&q=bridge+street+lambertville+nj&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x89c3ff49f3ddc2ed:0x5a7fcf21aa738541,Bridge+St,+Lambertville,+NJ+08530&gl=us&sa=X&ei=aPAPUd-_BabhiAKkz4CABg&ved=0CC0Q8gEwAA
AND THE CROSSING AT BRIDGE STREET AND THE CANAL
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&rlz=1R2ADRA_enUS352&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.41867550,d.cGE&biw=1152&bih=523&wrapid=tlif135999906050910&q=bridge+street+lambertville+nj&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x89c3ff49f3ddc2ed:0x5a7fcf21aa738541,Bridge+St,+Lambertville,+NJ+08530&gl=us&sa=X&ei=aPAPUd-_BabhiAKkz4CABg&ved=0CC0Q8gEwAA
@ Kimberly
Thank you and yes, exactly what I am saying
I agree that no one in our community thinks this was an accident. Why does the facebook site refuse to question what happened?
I have no idea Denny, I can ask for a comment.
B
Thanks Kimberly for the links. I’ve been poring over those all this time, but still couldn’t get what kind of location we had.
Finally, Brian, I just realized that what B and everyone is calling a river, I was calling a canal. I now see the canals.
New question: how close to the entry of the canal and the river lock was the body found? The canal seems hardly adequate for sweeping a body into the river. Is it possible?
Oh, that river. How trapped are those caught in the locks? Must the body rise to the surface? In cold water that could take a long time. How deep is the river in that area?
Here’s a brief article about the biology of drowning/rising from a water grave:
http://www.operationtakemehome.org/sar/Fire%20and%20Rescue%20Personnel/Biology%20of%20drowning.pdf
There is a zero percent chance she was in the river and ended up in the canal. My apologies for not articulating the scene well enough WG.
B
I haven’t yet eaten at Brian’s but heard it’s very good. Yes, feel free to contact me at that email.
I have no business interest with Brian ( must disclose of course, lol) but we enjoy both the menu and service- I do not believe the wood oven is operational last I heard, just fyi.
Emailed.
B
I attended the memorial on Saturday at LS, and it seems odd to me that no one seemed to question the “tragic accident” verdict. I can say , however, that the larger community, including the children, find the coincidences involved a bit difficult to digest. Do you think there is an ongoing investigation yet to be revealed to the public? As residents, I hope we get answers eventually.
The investigation is definitely ongoing.
For the moment, I don’t think that the silence per se, is a sign that the possibility that this was not a tragic accident has been excluded. I just think it continues “in process”. Especially at a memorial.
If you got the impression that discussions about “what happened” were shushed there- it could be because of it potentially being overheard by the family, or the plainclothes detectives observing.
B
B, I fully understand the need to be sensitive to family. My question lies in the fact that no one, including friends, family, local media seems to be interested in any story other than “tragic accident”. As far as plainclothes being present at memorial – people who have nothing to hide,have nothing to fear. I attended only as an observer; there was one particular person I wanted to lay eyes on. I noticed police presence as well, and I am thankful for it. I know the area, and that poor soul didn’t get there on her own. I’m afraid this story will just go away.
We agree. Stick with me. Keep your appropriate angst and let the tox come back. If there comes a point where a resident-based inquiry is warranted over whatever the findings are, I will voluntarily participate.
You are correct that people that have nothing to hide have nothing to fear- gives me pause in this case.
B
I know exactly what spurned the question, no problem, and no.
Unfortunately, I have nothing but a klutz alibi, lol
B
Blink thanks for the clarification. I agree that the body didn’t move up into the canal. For further info, the scenes where we see rescuers cutting a hole in the ice and using a ladder against the wall–that’s the canal, right?
The boot emerged on the New Hope side of the canal, right? Where the boot is, the body should be nearby. If not, there is something off.
Here’s an article about a man who fell in the canal and was rescued. Sorry if it’s a repeat.
http://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/index.ssf/2013/01/search_for_missing_lambertvill.html
The canal is only located on the Lambertville side ( The delaware river divides the state here, New Hope is the PA side and Lambertville is the NJ side, there is only banks of the Delaware located on the PA side.
It is possible that the boot could have been obstructed from surfacing previously I suppose, it is not evidence in and of itself of foul play, but a proper medico legal death investigation should lend perspective.
In fact, I hope it intends a possible reconstruction from the scene to support any finding.
B
denny, so glad you got to go to Sarah’s memorial. Good observations and reporting. It helps those of us who are far-away-foreigners to your home turf.
You laid eyes on one particular person. Can you report on his body language or statements made, without necessarily revealing who he is?
Here is a map I made:
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=214253112238594632448.0004d4fca53d5c2f009ee&msa=0&ll=40.368422,-74.947314&spn=0.015171,0.030427
I’m curious what put LE at the Coryell bridge as a starting point to search?
Did they find a potential break in the ice?
CCTV has her crossing the bridge into Lambertville
and shows the crosswalk she crossed to go down Lambert
to Coryell,,,, Is that the last image (s) they have of her?
IMO, accident or not, there HAS to be some spot of ice that was either cut, or showed signs different from the rest, (example, if she fell in and the ice broke, there would be a difference from the other ice that had not broke) including this being homicide.
Somewhere there had to have been a break in the ice, whether she was put there or fell.
Didn’t search and rescue check that spot a few days prior tho???
They searched it that early am depending on who you ask, and then at daylight through the call to police and for days. This canal is 3 ft deep, fyi.
B
Thx for the map, Brian. Nice job. I see there are 60 views, already. Lots of people read here. I hope more locals will give us their viewpoint, especially as there seems to be a rift between the accident and the maybe-not-accident people.
For those of us who do this sort of work/advocacy all the time, it might seem like we are always pessimistic and looking for the darker side–that’s sort of a hazard, I guess, when bringing light into a case.
I’d much rather be wrong than right when it comes to nefarious aspects of a case. Unfortunately, most of the time, the nefarious gets in line with all the legions of other evil-doers and barely even flinches when called into account.
Let’s stay the course here to see if there is any light we can bring to help redeem the life of Sarah Majoras.
snip>>
This canal is 3 ft deep, fyi.
B
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SAY WHAT???? 3 ft deep and we are to believe that 2 people
associated with 1 male both drowned in 3 feet of water.
Not saying it isn’t possible, but,,,,,, WOW!
I have been corrected on the no current status. It reflects that of the river or about 2-3 mph.
That said, it was clearly frozen several inches on the surface.
B
I’m getting more of what your saying Blink, with regard to
the frozen over and no current now. I was thinking the canal was
7-10 ft deep.
Just to clarify, the canal is not always flowing at 2-3 mph, I believe that is just the norm, sometimes it has no current at all, just depends on weather, recent rainfall, etc. And yes if either of them fell off the side of the canal, at worst they would be in 3 ft of water. It does get to at least 10 feet in the center but the sides are shallow. Check out this video, about 30 seconds through there is a shot of a full grown man walking on the ice that was covering the sides of the canal at the time of her disappearance so it would be nearly impossible for her to fall off the canal path and go into the water. http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/gallery?section=news/local&id=8972071&photo=4
Thank you Brian on the depth, but that link opened to the photo gallery and I could not find the video you are referencing?
However, in the stills of Sarah crossing the bridge, you can see the large chunks of ice on the river, as a local of almost 7 years, I have to say that is the first time I had seen that.
On Thursday the 24th, I crossed that bridge 2x, and I can tell you that at least upon observation the canal appeared to be frozen solid and very low. I recall this because at my appointment earlier it came up in conversation that the canal seemingly froze overnight (it runs behind this location directly) so I made it a point to slow and look at it. Eerie in retrospect.
B
“SAY WHAT?” is going to be my moniker today! Thanks, Kimberly and thanks, Blink, for depth info. I tried to find that but, alas, I am not an erose, rose, ode, nor any of our superstar researchers! Off to work–stay busy, Blinkers.
hi. i live in lambertville. i appreciate the info here, but wonder why no one is talking about the man who died in the canal in 2006. he was also a local, also walking home from a bar, though this time the inn of the hawke. i can’t find much about his ‘accident’ online anymore, but the story was that he drowned in the flood waters. we did have a flood at that time, but we didn’t have flash floods that would cause people immediate danger that i recall. that is, unless so drunk he was falling over, he’d have been able to avoid the floods. moreover, from what i understand (and it’s possible that i don’t have my facts straight), he was only walking a few blocks to his house on s union st, the same street as the hawke. also the same street from which one would access the spillway. i think he was found in relatively the same place that dave anderson was and that sarah would have eventually ended up if they hadn’t found her and there was no boom on the canal. i don’t think adam baker had anything to do with this. however, i also really don’t think these three incidents were accidents. it’s, of course, possible to fall into the canal, but not really very easy – especially if one’s path, as sarah’s usually was by all accounts, is on coryell and NOT on the tow path. and especially, as friends say about sarah and dave, one doesn’t like to walk on the canal. i very much hope that there is a real investigation into what happened to sarah. first of all, sarah, her family, and her friends deserve it. second of all, if there is a criminal here, or who visits here every six years or so, we need to know. i have a feeling LE knows more than they’re letting on. i’ve heard a few things from good sources that haven’t come out publicly. and much of what has come out publicly leads to more questions than it answers. my cynical fear is that real crime is bad for business, so the real details don’t come out.
one thing that seemed to have come out early but then fell away was the idea that sarah was seen on finkle’s cameras. is that true?
Hi there, I don’t allow the user name anonymous here, so unless you want to change it, I have given you the moniker Lamb1. I am not familiar with the 2006 case, can you link me please?
I agree that a thorough investigation is appropriate. I would be shocked if her tox screen was not back, they must have a finding by now.
B
The temperature at night the week prior to Sarah supposedly having a tragic accidental falling in and drowning, was COLD. Really cold…..like in single digits. That leads me to believe a 3 foot deep canal with a 2-3 mph current would have a strong likelihood of being frozen solid.
Learning that the canal is only 3 feet deep adds to the mystery for me.
It snowed Friday evening from about 3:30PM-6 maybe an inch or an inch and a half on top of it, I do believe there would likely still be snow on the towpath. When there is now there are tracks, however.
B
Kim from PA
If the temperature had been below freezing for several days, the canal could have been frozen enough to impeed the flow. That would allow the water to freeze to a greater depth. Frozen solid? I doubt it.
I believe this to be a homicide. There has been nothing about the body released by LE. They may have some sensative information that could impeed their investigation.
Sorry for the bad link, here is the video I was referncing:
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/01/29/exclusive-family-of-man-who-went-missing-in-new-hope-in-2000-speaks-to-eyewitness-news/
Blink, here’s the link to the 2006 death, due to the flooding,it is presumed, when he drowned–or where his body was found, in Swan Creek. (floods 2004, 2005, 2006)
Posted: Friday, 07 July 2006 7:36AM
“Man Found Dead as Result of Flooding
LAMBERTVILLE, NEW JERSEY (AP) — Last week’s flooding along the Delaware River in New Jersey has apparently claimed a life after all.Searchers recovered the body of a 39-year-old man from Swan Creek in Lambertville.Timothy Groff was last seen last Thursday after leaving a neighborhood restaurant as water from the river poured into the creek. He was not reported missing until Tuesday.An autopsy shows the landscaper had drowned.”
http://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/index.ssf/2013/01/search_for_missing_lambertvill.html
Blink,
Not much in the media about this case anymore. Do you know if her
tox has in fact come back or what is going on with this?
Seems like it’s been pretty quiet and letting things die down while the public is lead to believe this was an accident.
I sure hope the locals are making some noise and not letting this lie where it is at the moment…….. IMO
Blink–My Feb 7 1:56 am (your time) link to the 2006 incident is still in Moderation. Usually, I figure you’re following up or don’t want the info out (as you’re “still wrapping presents” lol).
This time I’m not sure what’s up?
Autopsy back yet?
@ Kimberly
I am updating for Monday.
Wg
You got it maam, updating for Monday. Thanks for your patience
I’ve lived in town 16 yrs and in New Hope many years before that. I don’t understand why there wasn’t a public news conference by the Lambertville Police and the investigative team, the day after Sarah was found? We see that sort of thing on TV all the time. People would have a chance to ask questions and clear the air about what route Sarah took; whether her cell phone was in her coat; whether Finkle’s had a surveillance video; what the tox report revealed, etc. They could at least hold an open meeting at City Hall. A public hearing seems justified, considering there ‘might’ be a perpetrator on the loose.
I’ve tried to accept the ‘accident’ theory, but I still can’t imagine why Sarah would take that long dark icy stretch of towpath from Coryell St all the way up to say, Buttonwood…or even for only a few blocks. I don’t believe there’s any lighting back there at 3am and it’s very spooky. If she made it from Lambert Lane to Coryell St (Finkles), she was only a dozen houses away from N. Union St. …with public streetlights and easier walking. I’ve spoken with several friends who knew Sarah well, and they do not believe Sarah went into the canal accidentally. Even if she did walk the towpath, why would she walk that close to the edge on an icy night? It’s about 5 ft wide and she would’ve walked far enough away from the edge that, even if she did take a fall, it’s unlikely she would’ve been close enough to go over the edge. Also, a good length of the canal’s inner edge is lined with twigs and sticks and bushes. Plus, wouldn’t she have yelled? There are houses all along the way with yards that back up to the towpath. Surely someone would’ve heard her screaming for help.
I really don’t understand why people are being reprimanded for wanting answers. I hope there will eventually be a public meeting to clear the air.
I personally posted on the Find Sarah FB site and was promptly insulted and then the post was deleted.
Contrary to popular belief, and also those wanting to control events, this case is not going away without a comprehensive investigation.
B
I am interested to hear how this was an accident if it was. I looked at the map Brian made (nice work by the way) I just cant see it. In the photos on the surveillance she “appears” to be walking strong if you will. How do you get drunk to the point of falling in the water? Like I said, could have been an accident but if it was I would love to hear the HOW.
Oh and looking forward to the update too.
Is it possible that friends of Adam are trying to protect him from further insult? I can understand that. He’s been through a lot. But what about other lines of thinking? Do those just get pushed aside? Has anyone called Police with regard to tox results? or do they intend to reserve that information for family members only? I’m asked rhetorically, of course.
The longer this case goes, the more suspicions are raised. Someone is being protected or has information relative to this and the 2006 case and has not come forward.
This could be from either the New Hope side or the Lamberville side of the river.
Nothing in the local news; it is being portrayed, so far, as an accident.
Confused, once again, when reading about Jessica Savitch’s 1983 death in the canal. It sounds as if she was on the New Hope side. Damn that canal, anyway.
“On October 23, 1983, Savitch had dinner with Martin Fischbein, vice-president of the New York Post, in New Hope, Pennsylvania. After the meal at Odette’s Restaurant, they began to drive home about 7:15 pm, with Fischbein behind the wheel and Savitch in the back seat with her dog, Chewy.
Fischbein may have missed posted warning signs in a heavy rainfall, and he drove out of the wrong exit from the restaurant and up the towpath of the old Pennsylvania Canal’s Delaware Division on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River. The car veered too far to the left and went over the edge into the shallow water of the canal. After falling approximately fifteen feet and landing upside down, the station wagon sank into deep mud that sealed the doors shut.
Savitch and Fischbein were trapped inside as water poured in. A local resident found the wreck at about 11:30 that night. Fischbein’s body was still strapped behind the wheel, with Savitch and her dog in the rear. After the autopsies, the Bucks County coroner ruled that both had died from asphyxiation by drowning. He noted that Fischbein was apparently knocked unconscious in the wreck but Savitch had struggled to escape. There was no finding that drugs or alcohol had played any part in the crash.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Savitch
(other sources available; WG lazy ce matin.)
By the way, how bad is the alcoholism in this region?
Not sure how I overlooked this, but there was another death in icy water, involving another hospitality worker. The plot is thickening, sickening.
“On January 7th the corpse of Manuel Antonio Guevara, 26, was fished out of neighboring Watchung Lake. Tactical divers found him beneath a layer of ice near the lake-bottom. His shoes and wallet were recovered just a short walking distance from the lakeside restaurant where he was employed as a waiter.
Guevara’s family had reported him missing the last week in December. So far there’s been no ruling on the cause and manner of the young man’s death, as police are still investigating.”
http://killingkillers.blogspot.com/2013/01/missing-bartender-may-be-in-canal-sarah.html
Brian,
Are you the same commenter at Killing Killers? You have great insights and information. I read the details of Anderson’s funeral and the proximity of Acme market (closed in 2000 and a film theater in 2013) to the pool where he was found. The backside of the market may have been convenient to drive a body up to its disposal site.
I assume the fbi knows all this stuff but I hope someone with your knowledge, Brian, can make sure.
@word girl
Not sure how to answer that, except to say most of the successful restaurants in the area are BYO. very controlled liquor licenses.
Thanks word girl, yes that’s me at the killing killers blog, and you are correct, I walked the path behind the ACME screening room several times in the past week and it is the ideal place to “dispose” of a body if one wanted to, there are no homes there, the only building in view is the side of the Lambertville Inn and it would be difficult to see anything from there at night and the east side of the path is covered with hedges. What’s even more creepy is the fact that there is a small pathway through the hedge that you can back your car up to and “unload” a large object without being seen. Furthermore if you look at my map and zoom in to the street view of where Sarah’s body was found you will see a concrete slab that juts out into the canal (credit to blink on that). A strong individual could fairly easily throw a body past the ice into tha canal from there. When I was there I looked around and got the chills because it occurred to me it’s almost the only place in town that is “blind” so to speak
And regarding Guevara, that lake is nowhere near Lambertville, it’s in Mt. Olive, more 60 miles away, I don’t think it’s related at all, but that’s just my opinion
Good information, Brian.
What struck me most about your last post–and I caught the ledge from Blink’s, too–was your word, “strength.”
If someone needed to throw 140 lb. past the ice, they would need to have upper body strength. That eliminates most women I know. That is, if we suspect that these accidents were not accidents.
As for a place 60 miles away, that doesn’t exclude the incident for me. However, one really interesting thing about that was the wallet and phone found on shore.
At “dead” weight, one needs to add 20 lbs, if wet, about 35 fully dressed.
B
Regarding Guevara, I was incorrect, Watchung lake is only 40 miles away. I was thinking about the two boys who fell into Budd Lake in
Mt. Olive which is 60 miles away from here. I still don’t think it is related, but who knows.
The effort to throw the dead body (dead, assuming and with all sincere regret to Sarah’s family and friends, dead d/t blunt-force trauma, fully clothed and booted) after getting it out of the vehicle–which may have loosened one boot–and heaved into a thinner ice section, would have been too great if already wet.
IMHO, the perpetrator could have swung the body toward his side as he cradled it no more than about waist high. Gravity, velocity, ice thickness, pressure melting (caused by the body on the ice?) are additional factors
2″ or less – STAY OFF
4″ – Ice fishing or other activities on foot
5″ – Snowmobile or ATV
8″ – 12″ – Car or small pickup
12″ – 15″ – Medium truck
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/safety/ice/thickness.html
My 5-hour nap swept my brain–I was trying to think of the word of the day in this case: tensility.
Tried to post this tribute; don’t know where it went.
Oh, yeah. It’s in my heart.
“Sarah Charlotte Majoras lived by the Good Book… the O.E.D. (the Oxford English Dictionary). Sarah had a love of words and yet words are too feeble to describe who she was and what she meant to the people who had the good fortune to know her. Only descriptors working in tandem stand a chance. Sarah was a quick-witted, well-read, free-thinking spreader of mirth. She was a whip-smart, kind-hearted, strong-willed and open-minded master of puzzles. Her absence leaves us broken-hearted. While these sentiments may sound cliché, Sarah was certainly not. She was all too rare. …
“Sarah is survived by her mother, Judy; her life partner, Adam; her dog, Jezza Underfoot; her extended family and friends in Maryland and Ohio; and the scores of friends she made through the verity of her smile.”
http://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/index.ssf/2013/02/sarah_majoras_kind-hearted_wor.html
Does anyone remember this news article from 2010? http://buckslocalnews.com/articles/2010/11/29/new_hope_gazette/news/doc4ced6c77547d3156911510.txt?viewmode=fullstory