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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone who is saying that it should be obvious that they died of heat stroke if that was the case, you're forgetting that their bodies baked in the relentless heat for 24 hours before they were found. The decomposition process is accelerated in high temperatures. I think people are picturing a far different picture than what the medical examiner is dealing with.[/quote]

This website describes what happens to the body in extremely hot and dry temperatures. I imagine this is what searchers discovered and why it may be hard to determine a cause of death.

While heat speeds up the process of decomposition, it only does so up to a point. In extremely hot and dry temperatures, instead of decomposing, the body is mummified. With moisture from the body absorbed into the dry air, the skin grows tough and hard to break through. Fly larvae, too, die off at temperatures between 104F° and 122F°, thus slowing down the breaking down of the body tissues and fluids.

https://bioteamaz.com/2019/09/24/phoenix-heat-speeds-up-the-decomposition-process/[/quote]

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