The Case of the Missing Investigation: Poor documentation threw doubt on any logical explanation for a double drowning that involved electricity

摘要

After returning from a trip around a lake in the eastern U.S. and docking the twin-hull pontoon boat they were riding in, three boys decided to jump in for a swim. The afternoon dip turned tragic, though, when two of the boys seized up as soon as they entered the water, reportedly paralyzed by electric current in the water. Unable to move, they drowned. The third boy was pulled to safety by a friend. At the request of his father, who owned the boat, one of the boys had plugged one end of a modified AC extension cord into a shore AC receptacle and the other end into a duplex AC receptacle mounted on the pilot console of the boat before entering the water. Reportedly, the duplex receptacle mounted on the boat's pilot console was wired to another duplex receptacle mounted underneath a folding seat located at the stern of the boat, which served as an AC power source for two portable battery chargers.