What I think has happened is probably that at between 18:25 to 18:35 the Liverpool Echo is delivered. William goes out at 18:45, he HASN'T murdered her.
If he's guilty he's let the intended killer in as he goes out of the back door or arrives a bit after, perhaps then William needs to stay out because he has agreed on a set amount of time for the killer to do his thing and can't return until after then. If he's innocent well, then he hasn't of course.
Julia now goes into the kitchen, she reads the Echo which was that day's date with the pages opened on the kitchen table. As she's reading it there's a knock which she answers. In likelihood William has not read it because he said he wasn't sure if the newspaper had been delivered and secondly, I don't think he'd be casually reading the paper minutes before murdering his wife and trying to ensure everything is set up perfectly...
So she leaves the paper open on the kitchen table which is how it was found and answers the door. While on acid I got the sense it was a person she knew at the door. Logically it makes sense it would be a stranger though - but instinctively I feel otherwise. There is brief chatter on the doorstep and she lets him in and leads him into the parlour.
The kitchen is now unoccupied leaving it free for intruders to thieve from the box.
Julia lights the fire for the visitor - then ??? - then she hears a sound, probably from the kitchen because the kitchen is one room over from the parlour and there's signs of disturbance in there.
She is either down by the fire naturally and I don't know why, or she's been hit by something like a punch or pushed down and then hit with a deadly strike as she tries to get up. In the latter scenario I can imagine the attacker grabbing the nearest thing to hand to hit her with, or something he had brought with him, quickly drawing that out from his pocket or something of that nature.
Her stomach contents are as they are because she's been killed at a later time. The fact McFall EVER put the time of death at 19:50 (in his initial report) is dodgy because he thinks Julia's age is 55 which would mean he's calculated rigor as slower than it would be. Also judging by the trial he did not take into account that she was sickly and frail either, which also makes the calculation slower than it should be. I also do not think he accounted for the fire having been on which would put things the other way (slower onset right?) But the majority of things suggest a later time of death. Especially the stomach contents.
It would suggests the killer has arrived at the house later than you'd think. You'd think he would turn up barely after Wallace has left - or conversely that he spent some considerable time in there before she was bumped off... Which would align with the burning as the fireplace would be fully heated up.
I do not know the rest or the blanks.
Lily Hall testifies there is an accomplice, don't forget that. And Anne Parsons saw two people running from the scene at around the time oddly fast.
If he's guilty he's let the intended killer in as he goes out of the back door or arrives a bit after, perhaps then William needs to stay out because he has agreed on a set amount of time for the killer to do his thing and can't return until after then. If he's innocent well, then he hasn't of course.
Julia now goes into the kitchen, she reads the Echo which was that day's date with the pages opened on the kitchen table. As she's reading it there's a knock which she answers. In likelihood William has not read it because he said he wasn't sure if the newspaper had been delivered and secondly, I don't think he'd be casually reading the paper minutes before murdering his wife and trying to ensure everything is set up perfectly...
So she leaves the paper open on the kitchen table which is how it was found and answers the door. While on acid I got the sense it was a person she knew at the door. Logically it makes sense it would be a stranger though - but instinctively I feel otherwise. There is brief chatter on the doorstep and she lets him in and leads him into the parlour.
The kitchen is now unoccupied leaving it free for intruders to thieve from the box.
Julia lights the fire for the visitor - then ??? - then she hears a sound, probably from the kitchen because the kitchen is one room over from the parlour and there's signs of disturbance in there.
She is either down by the fire naturally and I don't know why, or she's been hit by something like a punch or pushed down and then hit with a deadly strike as she tries to get up. In the latter scenario I can imagine the attacker grabbing the nearest thing to hand to hit her with, or something he had brought with him, quickly drawing that out from his pocket or something of that nature.
Her stomach contents are as they are because she's been killed at a later time. The fact McFall EVER put the time of death at 19:50 (in his initial report) is dodgy because he thinks Julia's age is 55 which would mean he's calculated rigor as slower than it would be. Also judging by the trial he did not take into account that she was sickly and frail either, which also makes the calculation slower than it should be. I also do not think he accounted for the fire having been on which would put things the other way (slower onset right?) But the majority of things suggest a later time of death. Especially the stomach contents.
It would suggests the killer has arrived at the house later than you'd think. You'd think he would turn up barely after Wallace has left - or conversely that he spent some considerable time in there before she was bumped off... Which would align with the burning as the fireplace would be fully heated up.
I do not know the rest or the blanks.
Lily Hall testifies there is an accomplice, don't forget that. And Anne Parsons saw two people running from the scene at around the time oddly fast.
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