The unnatural death of Chef Tu Yuangao from Shishou, Hubei, triggered a dramatic "body guarding" and "body snatching" tug-of-war, which led to a disturbance involving more than 40,000 onlookers. After 80 hours, the tug-of-war subsided, but the conjectures and questions it provoked continue to emerge in the absence of authoritative information in local circles...