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Let's not forget that CJ was arrested for this crime and that he is still officially the only known suspect. One thing I'd like to know is on what grounds he was originally arrested. His modifying in the direction of vagueness a statement he made about having seen Joanna with two other persons...

I've just been reading the views of criminologist Professor David Wilson here. If I know anything about reading between the lines, he thinks it's CJ. What is on the lines is pretty good reading too.

Today's statements from the police and from the family go out of their way to put an end to speculation on three issues by emphasising that it is known that Joanna reached home safely, that Greg cannot be suspected by those fully informed of the facts, and that Joanna and Greg's relationship was...

OK, here's something completely different, a weird and perverse idea which I don't believe myself and which is just waiting to be shot down in flames: Jo’s relationship with Greg is on the rocks and she’s unhappy about it. He’s gone off, leaving her sad and lonely and...

The precise details of the body disposal seem to be paling into insignificance, especially if we take the majority view that she can't have been lying where she was found for a week. However, it may be worth mentioning one thought about it. A few years ago I drove up the M40 and straight on into...

OK let's take a closer look at the difficulties with this one : 1. It makes the brother an accomplice after the fact by silence about an extremely material fact. 2. It practically requires the murder to be pre-meditated at the time GR leaves Sheffield for his return journey as he would have...

Let's keep neighbours in as a privileged category. I am one of those who have whiffed a rodent in what we know about some of those living nearby. It also occurs to me as a possibility that someone who knew of Greg's departure might have got hold of the wrong end of the stick and assumed that...

I entirely agree with Sgt Jones that Greg cannot be the culprit unless the police have made a total pig's ear of checking his alibi. If he went to Sheffield then returned then went back to Sheffield, that too would be take him through many verifiable points - and makes him way too vulnerable if...

I can see the strength of the arguments against the bf - by far the best placed person to strangle anyone and so easy to find a motive for him. Definitely the first person the police would suspect, even if they are only of mediocre intelligence as some think. But it won't do. Mobile phone...

A few quick remarks : 1. I think that "ligature" is technically used to mean any flexible tool used for strangulation - anything other than hands or rigid articles. In this sense if someone is strangled with a sock, the sock is termed a ligature. But personally I don't buy the sock as the...

Well, let me just point out the difficulties with this theory, Destroyer. 1. Corpse wearing Friday's clothes. 2. Mobile phone records no outgoing calls or texts during weekend. 3. Murderer has to bank on no one having seen Joanna alive during the weekend - but he cannot possibly know that this...

But was the door still on the latch when boyfriend returned and if not, why not ?

Cadfael, can I approach this with a slightly different question: when was physical violence was first used against Joanna? It looks as though we have three possibilities: (i) inside Joanna's flat, either by an intruder or by someone she knew, or (ii) on some other private property, car or home...

Well, the police seem to be trickling out information as part of a deliberate policy. They knew from the moment they found the body that it was wearing no shoes/boots and only one sock, but they have only just released this. They also know the stomach contents, the kind of lock on the door, the...

I'm new to this forum and I agree with whitedove on one essential point - the possibility that Joanna went voluntarily and fully clothed (with all her effects) to somewhere other than her flat and met her death there. Then the murderer uses Joanna's keys to gain access to her flat and to leave...