Satan's Chimney Question......Possibl e Spoiler

lol yes it was a bit of a trickle rather than a torrent of water, but then he could still have slipped an fell an the levels of water in those streams in the highlands can fluctuate. on camping holidays ive seen the level rise in some when it rains, others it rises a few days after the rains as it takes a few days for all the water to come down from the hills and mountains an meet, so it could be they just assume the water level had been higher. or maybe he just didnt have that many injuries, the stone lowered slowly and carefully may have only suffocated and broken a few ribs before the body supported the weight. probably damage to the skull and ribs which are first place the stone would rest, maybe a few other snaps, but this could still be covered by a fall. when crossing those streams people often try to stand on larger stones abouve the water level to avoid getting wet, but the stones may still be wet and slippery from water splashing on them and you can fall, as my sister did in the lake district and nearly ended up in hospital herself. really the safest way to cross is tred in the water on the small pebbles, they spread your weight over them an give way less rather than sliding across the smooth surface of a larger stone. anyways yes maybe the injuries would be strange and not match entirely, but with no reason to suspect foul play, no motive for murder, its plausible it could just be written off as anamolous injuries, improbable from such a fall, but not impossible :p as jonathon might say. it was only with understanding who might have a reason to want to harm him and a plausible chain of events of how he could of died with those injuries that it comes to light that it was foul play. if the police didnt know about a big heavy stone falling from someones ceiling, it would be hard to figure how someone found in the middle of nowhere might have been crushed by some kind of mill stone lol, not enough pieces of the puzzle.

yes, the lack of blood is weird, i think maybe that is a mistake and they just didnt want to make the scene gory, but again, the stone was moving very slowly, it didnt strike the body, it could have simply come to rest on the body and crushed and suffocated without causing any lacerations as would happen if you fell hard against a stone or were struck suddenly. in which case it would be accurate there would not have been much blood, though there probably in reality would have been at least some coming from the mouth if the lungs were damaged struggling for breath. i forget the time and place but there was a method of execution which essentially was to place weights on someones chest so they couldnt breath in and they would die with almost no injury, as opposed to say hanging or beheading, theyd simply asphyxiate, it could be the same happened, that some of the stones weight was already supported so it simply sat atop the body causing death, or the chains stopped it ever so slightly above the ground. so i think it could be an accurate depiction, but it depends on preference, after all with television, especially a show from a decade ago, there would have been some desire to not be too gory, so something that in reality would cause a lot of blood might only cause some blood, and something which may cause some blood may cause no blood. still it could be accurate with how slowly the stone moves, after all a rather large weight can be held by something rather weak if it is lowered very gradually, even something that would be splattered by a smaller weight being dropped forcefully on it.