Originally posted by WallaceWackedHer
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Ive never gone for the Sayers idea of the prank call I’m afraid. It’s too much of a stretch for me to think that, in less than a day, Wallace compiles a plan then murders his wife or arranges for the murder of his wife on the strength of a random call. It’s a bridge too far for me. I don’t think that we have any good reason to believe that Johnston was the housebreaker or that he’d talk about it loudly enough to have been heard through the walls.
If Wallace had told Julia to prepare the Parlour then surely she’d have done it pretty much as soon as he’d left allowing an hour for the fire to build and warm the room thoroughly? So Johnston couldn’t have expected a long wait. I can’t see him wearing the mackintosh unless it was against the blood spatter?
I can’t see why Johnston would have met William at the entry when he would see him at the house anyway?
I agree that Wallace might have prepared Parry or Marsden as potential fall guys.
Of course the problem with the Monday’s trams is that the police ignored them. A huge failing.
I agree that Wallace was probably more familiar with the Menlove Gardens area than he let on but I wouldn’t go so far as to say that he knew it like the back of his hand. He had a set insurance route which never included that area.
On Parry I still come back to the same issue. If I’d entered into a conspiracy with you to commit a crime that last thing that I’d want is for you to have been arrested and put under intensive questioning. Especially as different people react differently under pressure. If I was then exonerated I certainly wouldn’t persist in saying - it was WWH that did it. This really makes no sense to me.
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