Late Report

From "Perplexing Lateral Thinking Puzzles" by Paul Sloane & Des MacHale.

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A man and his wife went on vacation. Two months later, the man called the police to report the location of a body near the place where he had been on holiday. The police thanked the man and then asked why it had taken him two months to report the body.

What was the reason?

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