Some here may recall last year when I had tried to figure out the shape and size of the object that caused the fractures to JonBenets skull in this thread. If you do, you might remember that I had shown why I came to the conclusion that the object was a cylinder whose diameter was between 1/2 and 1. If that conclusion is correct, it would eliminate the three items that are most commonly believed to be the weapon (a golf club, the Maglite, and one of the two bats found). Because of a picture taken in the basement showing that a new water heater had been installed recently and that there was new and old associated piping in the area, I think the weapon was a short section of leftover pipe -- something the investigators didnt think to look for. If you dont remember all this (or werent here at WS then), you might want to review some of the discussions on this thread, or my numbered posts showing how arrived at this conclusion. Essentially though it ended with my belief that the weapon used was probably overlooked by investigators because they didnt know the shape of what was used, and we couldnt see it in the photos that were available to us.
Last week someone posted a screen capture (which I saved to my files) from a TV program showing the same area of the boiler room taken from a slightly different angle. (Sorry I dont remember who posted it -- I couldnt find it when I went back looking for it.) I dont know exactly when the photo was taken in relation to December 26, 1996, so maybe someone can help figure that out. Here is what I think (because of its number) was the one of the first photos of the area taken by BPD (notice the stacked window screens/frames in the bottom left corner of the photo):
The following photo was taken some time after the previous one, and the stacked window screens/frames have been removed from the area. In it, along the bottom you can also see the top of a 5-gallon pail that was probably used during the plumbing repair and installation of the new water heater.
This photo was taken from a slightly different angle showing all the way back to the corner of the boiler room:
The following screen capture was made from a program on NBC. It looks like it might have been from a video, but I dont know anything about it. Take a look at it and see if you dont see the same thing I see leaning up against the wall to the side of the freezer shown in the bottom left of the photo:
Here it is with a red circle around it:
My questions would be:
- Is that a section of iron pipe left over from the water heater installation/repair?
- When was it placed there?
- If it was moved there by the CSIs, where was it before?
- Was it in that location when the other photos were taken and it simply wasnt seen?
- Did the police completely overlook it when they were searching for a weapon?
- If it was taken into evidence, did they check it for fingerprints, fiber evidence, DNA?
I dont think they even considered this. If they had, it should have been listed as collected evidence on the search warrants. Here is a list of what they
did take into evidence when they went back (after the autopsy revealed the head wound) looking for what might have been possibly used as a bludgeon:
- Black sheet metal from wine cellar (39KKY)
- baseball bat (3GLI)
- golf clubs (4GLI)
- red clay brick (48BAB)
- baseball bat (74BAB)
- hammer (6BAH)
- flashlight (20JRB)
- golf club (79BAH)
- (BLACKED OUT ITEMs)
I think they should have been looking for a short section of pipe with an outside diameter of 1/2 to 1. I also think that may be shown it in that last photo.