Dingoes ‘not likely’ to have caused Canadian teen’s death, autopsy reveals
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-23/canadian-teen-piper-james-likely-died-from-drowning-on-kgari/106256020?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other
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Well…. They said that is was ‘not likely’ Dingoes in the 80’s and it turned out to be…
But did they steal her baby?!
Water in the lungs. She drowned. End of speculation right there.
Did I really read a journo write the water could be from puncture wounds from the Dingoes. Are we really this cooked these days ?
That beach is utterly treacherous- poor woman – there needs to be a significant amount of education about Australia’s beaches for overseas visitors. People have no idea what they’re wading
into.
That’s so sad.
There’s strange internet outrage over this in some corners of the internet. Random Americans personally offended by this and wanting the govt to cull the dingos.
Did she perhaps go into the sea to avoid the Dingoes?
This is so sad. She was reveling in a dream experience.
There’s enough focus on this that they will look further. Why did she drown? It’s very easy for good swimmers to get in trouble in surf and rips. There have been irukandji detected that far south recently. Box jellyfish are less likely.
If the tide was ebbing, it’s entirely plausible that she found herself in trouble in the surf, tragically drowned, and the tide left her body where the dingos found her. They’re not going to pass on a juicy feed like that.
Absolute tragedy.
Her friends will blame themselves for ever. They should have persuaded her not to go alone.
So very sad.
Never swim alone is a message I stress to young travelers who pass through the town I live in.