Dawn, it is confusing. I believe that by the time it was seen by RK that the laundry bag would have been silty from the flood and with the decompositional fluids etc...it would have been rather...vinyl in appearance, if you catch my meaning. In that scenario, I would have to think the garbage bag was inside the laundry bag. The gray is from being filthy, out in the elements, and having the remains spilled onto/into it.
Well, the August 12th call would have been before the flood, but I see what you are saying.
When I first read it I thought laundry bag inside the garbage bag and here's why. ***coming up, my own opinion, no link available :cow: ***
I think a cloth laundry bag with a body in it would be easier to carry. Not much chance of any appendages (God I am having trouble with these images
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) tearing a hole in the bag. A garbage bag with a oddly shaped, possibly in rigor body in it would be bulky and unwieldy to carry and move. They did not mention shoes in the search warrant (and like I said, I don't think they would unless they only found one and wanted to search for the match) but if she had shoes on, that could definitely rip a garbage bag.
Plus, and I know I am giving KC too much credit here, but I think a laundry bag seems
nicer. I would prefer to bury (or move) a pet's body in a cloth bag than a garbage bag, because it seems more humane. And in a sense, less permanent. You put clothes you plan to wear again in a laundry bag. You put clothes you never want to see again in a garbage bag. I think the first couple of days KC was in complete denial. I have not decided yet rage/accident/premeditated but I do think that immediately following she managed to make herself truly believe it did not happen. "I'll just put this laundry bag in the trunk, and maybe in a couple of days I'll get her back out, good as new. "
However, I think once the leaking started she had no other choice than to put it in a garbage bag. I think she intended to use AL's garbage bag but did not for some reason. I am thinking maybe with body, blanket, and laundry bag it would not all fit into a white kitchen bag easily. Or the white trash bag may have already had a hole and so was not a good choice. So she obtained the black bag and put the laundry bag in. I think she did that after the 2.6 days, and then dumped the whole thing in the woods after the gas can incident.