>>1328279Her body hits the banks below, breaking her leg in several places. She feebly tries to continue on but the injuries are just too great. Lisanne dies slowly on the bank of the estuary, sharing the same fate as her best friend Kris who had expired a few hours before, alone, afraid, and with no help in sight.
This is where nature begins to take over, in the period of weeks that the two dead corpses have fallen a mixture of bacteria, water, and insects go to work, working from the inside as the gastric juices in the warm sun speed up bacterial decay, ants and other insects in the forest start to pick the bones clean. Where Kris died, parts of the body are exposed to intense sunlight, Lisanne is in a more shaded area.
Most likely an indigenous person comes across the body of Lisanne and the backpack, she will no longer have use of it, so he safely takes it into his custody with the intent to sell it or trade it.
Within the first few weeks, the bodies have decomposed, large scavengers have also taken larger parts of the body dragging them through the brush, Lisanne's leg is been dragged along and the rotting that set in is enough that the foot falls off from the weight of the boot and the decomposition of connective tissue, a common thing that happens with decomposing corpses.
As more stress is placed by the local authorities that the search continues for these missing girls, the indigenous person who took the backpack decides to dump it, rather than have himself/herself implicated in the death of the two Hollandeses.
It is found later, and along with the remains which have now been mainly scattered and dragged by larger predator.
The under equipped Panamanian's involved in the case, are unable to come to more than a broad conclusion of what happened.
There is misinformation that flies as well as wild speculation fueled by a 24 hour news cycle and the corners of the internet, which ultimately try to make a cash cow mystery out of a tragic case.
