I think the time has come to point out a few things about how I look at the case, and how I reason.
The general approach out here is to say "No, it need not have been like that, it could have been like this instead".
Actually, I know that quite well.
The neck MAY have been cut first.
The blood MAY have left Nichols at a speed that is consistent with the general meaning of oozing when Neil saw her.
There MAY have been time for another killer.
And so on. In eternity.
What I am doing, is to try and see if the surrounding circumstances fit with Lechmere as the killer. I do this because I think that there are just too many anomalies involved for him not to be a very viable bid. And so, much as things MAY have been the other way around when it comes to the details, that is of inferior interest to me in my work to see if the details may fit Lechmere in the killerīs role.
It is suggested out here that Nichols MAY have been cut twenty minutes before Neil saw her, putting it in the vicinity of 3.25. It is claimed that it would be very odd if the neck was not cut first, and that this therefore MAY and probably WAS the case. It is said that there was an extension of the 15 centimeter pool of blood, reaching in under Nicholsī body, and that Llewellyn MAY have been blissfully unaware of this, although he would probably have been in place as the body was lifted onto the ambulance.
All sorts of things are suggested as alternative possibilities.
Fine. But you must be prepared to have these alternative suggestions challenged. And in the end, when it al has boiled down, we are left with how Neil said that the blood was running as he saw the body, how Mizen said that the blod was still running into the pool under the neck as he arrived, and that Llewellyn opted for a time of death no further removed in time than 30 minutes. And he saw the body att approximately 4.10, leaving us with 3.40 being the earliest possible cutting time as per Llewellyn.
Does that mean that Lechmere can be exonerated? No.
Does it in any way detract from the suggestion that he was the killer? No.
Are we left with any more probable killer, the Phantom killer included? No.
That is all there is to the matter, in the end:
Although it MAY be that Lechmere was not the killer, he is certainly the one and only man that is pointed out by the blood evidence.
Think Iīm done here now.
The general approach out here is to say "No, it need not have been like that, it could have been like this instead".
Actually, I know that quite well.
The neck MAY have been cut first.
The blood MAY have left Nichols at a speed that is consistent with the general meaning of oozing when Neil saw her.
There MAY have been time for another killer.
And so on. In eternity.
What I am doing, is to try and see if the surrounding circumstances fit with Lechmere as the killer. I do this because I think that there are just too many anomalies involved for him not to be a very viable bid. And so, much as things MAY have been the other way around when it comes to the details, that is of inferior interest to me in my work to see if the details may fit Lechmere in the killerīs role.
It is suggested out here that Nichols MAY have been cut twenty minutes before Neil saw her, putting it in the vicinity of 3.25. It is claimed that it would be very odd if the neck was not cut first, and that this therefore MAY and probably WAS the case. It is said that there was an extension of the 15 centimeter pool of blood, reaching in under Nicholsī body, and that Llewellyn MAY have been blissfully unaware of this, although he would probably have been in place as the body was lifted onto the ambulance.
All sorts of things are suggested as alternative possibilities.
Fine. But you must be prepared to have these alternative suggestions challenged. And in the end, when it al has boiled down, we are left with how Neil said that the blood was running as he saw the body, how Mizen said that the blod was still running into the pool under the neck as he arrived, and that Llewellyn opted for a time of death no further removed in time than 30 minutes. And he saw the body att approximately 4.10, leaving us with 3.40 being the earliest possible cutting time as per Llewellyn.
Does that mean that Lechmere can be exonerated? No.
Does it in any way detract from the suggestion that he was the killer? No.
Are we left with any more probable killer, the Phantom killer included? No.
That is all there is to the matter, in the end:
Although it MAY be that Lechmere was not the killer, he is certainly the one and only man that is pointed out by the blood evidence.
Think Iīm done here now.
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