Okay, page 23 confirms to me that we got a big ol' case of the unreliable narrator going on here.
I very much doubt it's somehow a mistake the artist made or a way to get around drawing the corpse again. There has to be a reason why there's a police outline and evidence markers on the ground between them where Miya is lying in all other panels.
There's definitely more going on that "just" the weird zombie apocalypse stuff.