Chip Chick
Ralph Collier, a leading expert on sharks who runs Global Shark Attack File, has pointed out that if a shark really did rip off Michelle’s leg, she would have immediately died of blood loss, and there was no way she could have ingested so much sand.
Adding to this, when sharks do bite people, they leave very clean bone breaks. The bone on Michelle’s leg had a very jagged and pointed break.
Additionally, the bruising Michelle had on her face, her broken pelvis, her broken ribs, her broken neck…none of that is in line with a shark attack.
Richard Rosenblatt, the Chairman of the Scripps Institute for Oceanography whom Brian reached out to, explains Michelle’s injuries are not consistent with any kind of shark attack, because the wounds she sustained that appeared to be bite marks were far too small to have been made by a shark.
Now, there were smaller wounds that made it seem Blue sharks had come along to potentially feed on her after her death, but those marks could not have caused her death.
In 2008, a medical examiner by the name of Glenn Wagner re-examined Michelle’s case and confirmed she had died prior to sharks taking a few bites out of her.
All of these things had people thinking Michelle had to have been murdered, dumped in the water, and made to seem as if she was attacked by a shark.
Given the amount of sand she had ingested, it’s possible someone tried to drown her and that’s how that happened.
Michelle was last seen alive at 8 p.m. before she was found in the early morning hours the following morning.
She was supposed to go to a concert with her friend and roommate Coco Campbell, but when they got there they weren’t allowed in because their tickets were for a different night.
On the way home, Michelle apparently asked Coco to take her to a pier close to Sunset Cliffs, but it’s not clear why she wanted to be there, but one thing is clear; Coco said she was not quite acting like herself.
