Originally posted by bolo
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Like others, I think we can strike possibility number 3 from the list as the surviving evidence doesn’t go well with it. As you say, according to the evidence, there was some blood on it, as if he’d wiped his hands and knife on it, while a lot of blood should be expected if he’d actually used it as a bandage because he cut himself.
Furthermore, the evidence suggests a murderer who was very to-the-point, didn’t waste any time and was very practical. He doesn’t seem to have cared at all about communicating with either the police or anybody else. He seems to have done what he did because he felt like it and, quite probably, enjoyed the notoriety as an extra as he went along. So, in that sense I don’t think he cut off the piece of apron to authenticate any message.
What makes the most sense to me is that he cut it off so that he would not have to wipe especially the stinking faeces off his hands & knife (and, possibly, also off the organs) on the spot, but could do that while he was getting away or did so when he thought he’d put enough distance between himself and the crime scene.
Cheers,
Frank
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