Good morning, I agree, I think there was carpet in that room. I was trying to work through (in my mind) the scenario of EB, ALONE, pulling and rolling up the carpet and disposing of it. IMO this would take some strength and time. Plus, since Adam has told us he looked in Zahra's bedroom EVERY night, did he notice the carpet was missing?
If carpet were in the room, wouldn't the spillage of blood (or whatever) have been a considerable amount, enough to go through the carpet down to the floor where LE cut out.
This might be a moot point because LE could have rolled it up and put it in another room in the house. But if that is true, why didn't Adam notice the spot (blood or bleach) on the carpet?
Tying this to TOD, I think the cleanup might have taken 2 weeks. Now maybe I won't get in trouble with mods.
(Bare with me mods, I'm actually getting to being on topic here, I promise.)
BBM
That's part of the reason I wondered if there had been carpet in this room. When we first saw the pictures from inside the bedroom, the 3 things that immediately stood out to me was the removal of the wall section, the removal of the floor section, and the appearance of the floor itself. I just had a hard time envisioning a damaged floor left bare like that on purpose. Call it a gut feeling. EB might have questionable decorating skills, but from everything I've seen of the rest of the house, she seemed to care VERY much that her house reflected her personality and, in her mind anyway, looked good. The one room of the house that we can assume wasn't involved in clean up is the livingroom, so I used that for a base of what I thought the house might have looked like prior to cleanup/trashing by LE. The paint is neat, the carpet matches the paint, care was taken in the placement of mirror and acceosries over the mantle, heck even the items on top of the mantle seemed neatly arranged. Then we look at Zahra's room. One of the window treaments remains on the window nearest the closet. Would she bother to do that, but NOT cover a damaged floor? I just didn't think so. So I started to wonder if there had been carpet. It wasn't until I saw the SWs that I had an AHA moment. LE retrieved carpet fibers. They don't say "a carpet", they don't say "a piece of carpet" , and they don't say " a sample of carpet" , they say FIBERS. So, where would they get carpet fibers from? The now bare floor of Zahra's bedroom. Why would they bother to take those carpet fibers into evidence? To show that there HAD been a carpet in there, and to match the carpet fibers to the carpet (if it were ever found).
(Okay Mods...here's where I get on topic.)
The possibility there there might have been carpet in Zahra's room leads to all sorts of interesting questions about TOD, cleanup, how much AB knew or didn't know, etc. etc. But let's for the time being, just look at it in terms of COD.
In my mind, Zahra is standing in her bedroom ( I say standing because of the height of what we think is blood spatter on wall), EB enters the room in a rage and hits her in the head. Zahra falls to the floor bleeding. EB realizes she really screwed up this time, lifts Zahra onto the mattress, and assess the damage, maybe runs to the bathroom for a towel or something. The whole time, the blood on the carpet is soaking through to the floor. And it would have continued soaking through the carpet down to the floor until it dried. Removing a soiled carpet takes ALOT more time than scrubbing a floor stained with blood, so it might have been a day, maybe more, before she could remove this carpet. Especially true if she's trying to hide all this clean up from AB. Anyway, I think the reason LE observed something on the floor that lead them to cut out that part of floor is because the floor was stained (or water damaged). And I think it was stained because the floor itself couldn't be cleaned right away because it was covered in carpet.
(Hope you guys can follow all that. I'm not sure I laid my thoughts out very well. I've editted 5 times because I rambled on about all sorts of things as I was thinking/typing.)
ETA: And I think you're right, I think there is carpet in her closet. Sure looks like it could be carpet. Whatever it is, it doesn't look like it matches the rest of the floor in the room. I never noticed that before.