Police now are trying to determine if Joseph drowned on Sunday, if her body remained in the water from Sunday to Tuesday and how, if she was in the water, she was not seen. Fall River police Lieutenant Roger LaFleur said in a statement that officers went to Vietnam Veterans Memorial Swimming Pool at Lafayette Park at about 10 p.m. Tuesday and pulled Joseph from the water. Edward M. Lambert Jr. — commissioner of the state Department of Conservation and Recreation, which operates the pool — said in a statement yesterday that all 30 of the agency’s deep-water pools will close for 24 to 48 hours while investigators review safety procedures. Gregg Miliote, a spokesman for the Bristol district attorney’s office, said in a phone interview that people walking by the pool late Tuesday night spotted Joseph’s body floating in the water. Fall River Police Chief Daniel Racine said during a news conference yesterday that a 9-year-old boy that Joseph was watching at the pool on Sunday told police she had an accident on a water slide. “She, unexpectedly, went down the slide behind him.” 
 
 
 
 Joseph collided with him in the water, Racine said. Everything beyond that is absolutely under investigation. “As of right now, so much is not determined,” Sutter said. “And it does appear [that] it took place Sunday afternoon at some point.’’ 
 
 He said the sequence of events after Joseph went underwater and did not resurface was unclear. “There doesn’t appear to be anything suspicious about this as of right now,” District Attorney Sam Sutter said. Investigators are waiting for the results of an autopsy to determine the cause of death, Sutter said. Edward Lambert Jr., the former Fall River mayor and current DCR commissioner, issued a statement Wednesday saying the pool's entire staff “has been placed on administrative leave. "On behalf of the Department of Conservation and Recreation, we express our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Marie Joseph," Lambert said. “We will continue to cooperate fully with local and state law enforcement during their ongoing investigation,’’ he said.
– An inexplicable one from the Boston area: Police think a 36-year-old woman drowned in a public pool on Sunday and was not pulled from the water until Tuesday night, reports the Boston Globe. Nobody noticed the body in the interim, apparently. The victim is 36-year-old Marie Joseph, who went to the Fall River pool with a neighborhood group on Sunday, reports the local News Herald. A 9-year-old boy, her neighbor, tells police that Joseph went down a pool slide, landed on top of him, and went under. He never saw her surface. Somehow, Joseph's body was not spotted until Tuesday night, when passersby saw her floating in the water. The pool had been open on Monday, too. "We’re not certain about anything, other than the fact that we have a death and that this person was at the pool, and what took place with respect to the slide," says an assistant district attorney. "Everything beyond that is absolutely under investigation."