Summing Up And Verdict

[Tom_Wescott]

Rookie, read what I posted. Did I mention anything about strangulation? In my previous post I stated she was rendered unconscious while standing and then laid down. He went to cut her throat (as he was wont to do) and found the jagged stones impeded him. He grabbed her scarf and lifted her neck above the stones and slid his knife under. The fact that her scarf was pulled tight at the moment the knife blade ran across it bears all this out. It's not a complicated crime scene.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[The Rookie Detective]

Rookie, read what I posted. Did I mention anything about strangulation? In my previous post I stated she was rendered unconscious while standing and then laid down. He went to cut her throat (as he was wont to do) and found the jagged stones impeded him. He grabbed her scarf and lifted her neck above the stones and slid his knife under. The fact that her scarf was pulled tight at the moment the knife blade ran across it bears all this out. It's not a complicated crime scene.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

Ah I see


So he lifted her with one hand (his left) by her scarf, and used his right hand to slice her throat at the same time.

So he pulls the scarf tight twice.

The first time, when he renders her unconscious by pulling her scarf tight from behind, and the second time only because the stones physically impede his ability to cut her throat.