Weren't the earliest cases starting to show signs of advanced decomposition?

Maybe there was a wound I couldn't see, hidden by his clothes or the advanced decomposition.

Some sort of advanced decomposition going on.

In the Coroner's report released today, pathologist Christopher Lawrence said there was advanced decomposition, and no injury or obvious cause of death.

One forked outwards at a dangerously jaunty angle; another had toppled over decades previously and was in a crumbly state of advanced decomposition.