Melquiades
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I believe if was a freak accident with emphasis on freak.
The way I see it, she trips over her dog who yelps and runs away, hitting the chair in panic. Her phone falls and slides away.
She falls into the nook from the unrailed edge, falling face first into the piggy bank at an upward angle. The piggy bank hits the wall with force leaving a dent and gets lodged into her face. While lodged into her face, it turns toward the basement in the direction Amanda is falling, but dislodges before in can fall off the ledge. Amanda is now in the basement with a bleeding head wound, while also under the influence of canabis and migraines. She is bleeding and probably very disoriented. Maybe she thinks she could wait out the pain before going upsatairs, because she doesn't want to risk another fall. Unfortunately, she ends up bleeding out in the 44 hours until she is discovered.
As for her pets not going down, I'm not sure if they ever mentioned if they were afraid of the basement (some pets are). But her dog got hurt and now can probably smell blood and blood can't mean anything good. Not all pets are superheroes who come to aid.
Yeah, I’m in much the same mindset.
Weird accident is by far the most likely explanation. She unquestionably went face-first into the piggy bank, suffered a severe cut, and then despite being able to get to her feet eventually died from blood loss. Concussion and cannabis use are probably the reason she didn’t make it back up the stairs. Perfect storm of unlucky fall, bad/illegal house design, and unlucky injury.
This wasn’t a premeditated murder. You don’t go to kill someone and then do it by giving them a survivable fall down the stairs and then don’t even check if they’re actually dead. It makes no sense.
The only opening I’d see away from the accident is if she startled an intruder, he threw her out of the way and down the stairs, and then bolted out of the house not knowing the result of the fall. But based on the phone conversation she was having an accident seems much more likely.
The dogs not going downstairs is a total red herring. It might seem weird or counterintuitive relative to what people expect from their own pets, but we know from the husband’s testimony that the dogs were in the house when he got home and they obviously just didn’t go down there. It’s what happened, likely because they were spooked.