Some information I found in early newspapers:
Holly rode the bus home the day of the murder arriving home about 2:45?
I wonder if police asked the bus driver if anyone else got off at that stop, that normally didn’t?
There was a phone service man working on the lines the day of the murder…….he was cleared. The following morning after the murder of Holly a neighbor said she got a call for Holly Branagan, @ 7 am the lines were crossed. If this is true then why did Sean keep getting a busy signal.
Police said in an early report Holly was on the phone with a friend when the door bell rang she put down the phone in her bedroom and went to the door, picked up the down stairs phone and told the girl she had a visitor and she would call her back, this was 4:30
If this report is true, how did she call the office @ 4:45 to check and see if her father left? Maybe it wasn't Holly that made that call???? Maybe it was the murderer calling checking to make sure Holly's dad was out of town? This could have been a set up? This person knew Sean was not going to be home?
When the police came to the house, the bedroom phone was off the hook. (Really makes me think the friend on the other end, knew much more then she is saying.)
How many girls that age say I have a visitor?
Newspaper reports said locked doors.
Sean called from a neighbors home.
Knife came from a kitchen drawer.
One bathroom light on.
While there were a few defensive wounds on Holly’s hands the police said there wasn’t a huge struggle. Grandfather clock in the hall way was broken and stopped at 5:20
Could this clock have been staged and set at that time? One report said it all took place in the kitchen area, but the clock was in the hallway.
Small amount of marijuana was found in Holly’s pocketbook, the police didn’t make a big deal of this and I am not either, but I wonder if any drugs were in her system during the autopsy? Friends said she was a good girl smoked and drank a little, but that was it. The reason I bring this up is the police saying there was not a huge struggle, if she was high, it would have slowed her down and her response time would explain only a few defensive wounds. It would also be reasonable that whoever did this was someone she got high with....someone of that group of friends.
A few of Holly’s friends said they were getting threatening phone calls after Holly was murdered, I wonder if this is true?
A few friends got lawyers, why? Why as a parent, why would you get your child a lawyer? Could it be because you remember how your child was acting that day, or you seen something that wasn’t right like bloody clothes? I wonder if these parents that got lawyers, if the friends were of a small group that was hanging together that day? I wonder how many got lawyers? Remember back in 79 you didn’t hear a lot about people getting convicted without cause. Unless the police were coming a number of times talking to my child, or trying to make it sound like it was more then it was I would not get my child a lawyer.
Early reports say the police have no way of knowing if more than one person was involved and they haven ruled out a strong woman.
I must say I have a hard time with this one, they can’t tell if more then one person was in the house? The killer/killers must have taken the time to clean up pretty well, there had to be foot prints in blood she was stabbed in the front and found face down with the blade broken in her upper right back. The small number of defense wounds really bother me, unless she was stabbed once or twice in the front and turned to run leaving the remainder of the wounds being in her back. Seems like someone could have been holding her arms behind her back, she could have broke free once for the small amount of wounds on her hands. I hope they checked her body for bruises and signs of a fight, it appears to me they were only looking at the crime scene. I am not busting the police department here but by their own mouths they said we have never seen anything like this and we are a small department.
Could the police tell if this person was left handed or right handed by the angle of the blade?
Anyone know if Holly was seeing anyone? Could she have been seeing an older man, say one that had a wife or girlfriend?