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.

[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.

He did not use the scarf to render her unconscious. He used his arm. That's why there was no sign of a struggle and no (known) cries or noise made. Had he used the scarf to render her unconscious, it likely wouldn't have worked and certainly would have led to her dropping the cachous to grab at the scarf. We'd seen marks on her neck from her fingernails tugging at it. The scarf was used by the killer only once when he pulled it tight on her right side, causing the knot on her left side to push tightly into her flesh. As her neck was pulled up and suspended, he drew his knife across one time. Seeing the blood flow, he knew he got the carotid and left.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott