Fasinating stuff Jane........
I keep thinking of the word, for some reason "discarded." Like people do all the time when they just want to get rid of a mattress or an old pram.
In true crime circles, they often talk about the way killers dispose of remains can give clues.
Covering the face, for example, is often done as a sign of remorse, and can mean the killer knew the victim.
Displaying the body in certain poses can mean the crime had a sexual motive.
In in the case of Khandalyce, I think there are TWO very different people who have handled her remains.
Hiding remains, keeping them close, not burying or taking to the tip for example. Not leaving them out on the bush. They are laid out somewhere, kept. IMO that indicates a degree of " possessiveness" towards the bones. Perhaps an unwillingness to discard. She was important in some way to whoever caused her death.
The disposal, however, was done by someone else. IMO.
Nice psych profiling, 1968.
I think both the remains and the case containing her clothing were kept by someone who was possessive about her, or dare I say, cared.
I agree that the disposal of them was careless, as in no care, so probably a different person did that.
Who these people were and whether they were responsible for her death is another unknown.
Random thought... is it possible that Khadalyce was left with someone and died due to an accidental cause.
Yet those caring for her knew the situation was is some way "tricky" and so did not report her death to the police, but instead they covered it up and kept her body and the suitcase hidden for years, not knowing what to do about it?
The purchase of a suitcase in Mt Gambier (if that's what was purchased) may have been preparatory to leaving Khandalyce with someone, somewhere.
Thinking on.... you are asked to care for a two year old for a few days but her mother does not return. You wait. You try to call but get no reply.
Something awful happens and the child dies (not speculating what).
Horrified, you keep the child and her suitcase for years, wondering what to do.
Eventually, someone decides to just drop the whole lot on the side of the road out of Wynarka and be done with it.
