“Body looks well-preserved.”
“Been some cold snaps last few months. Ground’s frozen.”
(Criminal Minds, S03E13, “Limelight”.)
Okay…first of all, they clearly show the body in question being dug out from under approximately 12-18″ of soil. The ground is frozen, yet the soil they’ve dug up is at best damp, certainly not wet with melted ice, and it appears to have been hand-dug. That had to to require some serious muscle in frozen ground!
More obviously…not only is the vegetation green, there are FFS black-eyed susans blooming right behind the person claiming that the ground is frozen. Apparently, she’s not much of a gardener, or else a goddamned good one. My flowers practically never bloom in frozen ground!