Wednesday noon
There is no trace or tidings of her at all ... . There has no person , whatever , come forward , so far , who saw her at all , on that day , after she left her mother 's door ... . Now , though we have no evidence that Marie Rogêt was in the land of the living after nine o'clock on Sunday , June the twenty-second , we have proof that , up to that hour , she was alive . On Wednesday noon , at twelve , a female body was discovered afloat on the shore of the Barrière de Roule . This was , even if we presume that Marie Rogêt was thrown into the river within three hours after she left her mother 's house , only three days from the time she left her home -- three days to an hour . But it is folly to suppose that the murder , if murder was committed on her body , could have been consummated soon enough to have enabled her murderers to throw the body into the river before midnight . Those who are guilty of such horrid crimes , choose darkness rather the light ... .