Corrected entry: In the concluding moments of the film (and during the closing credits) the police officers and detectives investigating the murder act rather strangely. After the victim's car is dragged out of the swamp, even though they now know that the body is in the car's trunk, no one bothers to open the trunk. No one even pays much attention to the car. The tow truck just hauls the vehicle away with the body still crumpled up inside. The car is pulled out of shot for a moment, but it's not a long enough period of time for the trunk to have been opened or for the body to have been removed. This may simply be a very poorly run police force. Most police operations would have remained on the scene for hours more and a coroner would have been present.
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Correction: You just answered your own mistake. This may have been a poorly run police force. On the other hand, knowing the body is in the trunk, it would be easier to take the car to the forensics lab intact, rather than taking the body out of the crime scene, and possibly destroying evidence.
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