Just a thought - re: eating the cake. If he arrived there around 11 (before lunch) likely had to stay for many hours for questioning, etc. maybe even go to police station for prints...(speculation)...long day=hungry. I'm doing a study on overeating and the causes and often people stress eat. If he hadn't eaten all day and brings in a cake in to his home, I could see him mindless gorge on it even if he planned to eat something else. Stress eating, hunger solving, perhaps. Thoughtless. Not in his right mind. Comfort food.
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Only because of the cake he entered AG's garage and then later ate part of "the evidence". - But okay, it isn't dramatic. only worth a little mention.
To me, there is a lot to be said about this cake.
First off, to me again, it seemed that the handyman was kind of balking/making fun of AG because she had given the recipe and had wanted it made exactly according to that recipe.. no room for experimenting with fun flavors, or whatever... likely boring for a certified chef. In other words, a plain jane cake.. was it really that big of a hit that you'd want to sit with your partner and eat the entire thing during one setting?
Secondly, yes, the delivery of that cake was the reasoning for the visit. Their Christmas get-together, so to speak. What did AG have to give to her friend when they presumably exchanged gifts, or was this just a one-way street wherein AG knew ahead of time that her friend would be baking a cake made to AG's specs, but AG had no plans to reciprocate the Christmas gift-giving spirit? But AG was ill around the time of Christmas. I believe she'd been sick 'before' Christmas, and their plans got postponed? Or was it instead that AG was trying to get out of that get-together altogether? How is it that AG was sick before Christmas, but then fine to spend a meal with her other good friend, at her friend's house, I believe it was said with the friend's family as well? But then too sick again to have her get-together with the handyman friend? And also not sick enough to avoid giving her veterinarian friend a hug when she saw him, reportedly during same time period, even though it seemed AG was somewhat of a germiphobe?
When exactly was this special-order cake prepared/baked? How many days had it sat before it was to be gifted to AG, and ultimately eaten?
The friend arrives to the house with the purpose of giving this cake, cake in hand, while he presses the numbers on the garage pad (reportedly known only to AG and himself), ... and then discovers her body splayed in a
pose on the floor, dead. That would sure be enough for me to drop the cake!? But then later, the story changes to that he did not have the cake in hand, and had instead left it in his car. Which is more accurate? The early version of the story, when memory is the freshest? Or the later version, when perhaps memories become clouded? Perhaps police had wondered how he'd managed to keep hold of the cake when caught offguard at the sight of his friend's corpse? After thinking on it, perhaps the memory changed to having left it in the car?
Police very early on, became way too focused on the 'weird guy' who had been 'living' nearby (but still, from memory, I believe it was about 6 miles away?), so perhaps they didn't do all the checks and balances they should have at the beginning, ie by asking to see the cake, etc. As fromGermany has alluded to, if the entire cake was eaten right away after leaving the crimescene with it, was there any evidence at all that the cake actually existed?
The thing Claroon mentioned, about stress-eating... for sure.. I get that. Eat away! But this wasn't just simply a matter of 'eating'. This was eating the very thing that was so highly connected to his good friend of a few years. Eating a thing that couldn't possibly help but invoke memories of everything-Audrey, and everything horrible about that fateful time. I'd love to hear the perspective of a forensic psychologist/psychiatrist to know their thoughts on the immediate and total consumption of that memory-inducing cake. I might suspect that such a cake may be sort of memorialized, not wanting to eat it, as it was the last memory of AG, and it might bring highly charged emotions. Or I might equally suspect that such a cake might be completely discarded, as it was the thing of a most horrible, nightmarish memory that one could only want to forget. But to eat the whole dang thing in one sitting as it has been portrayed? Yes, I'd love to hear professional thoughts on that. imo.
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(What was stopping the couple from putting this cake named after Audrey onto their menu, since it was an independent bakery/cafe, they could create and name whatever they wanted?)
After he was interviewed by police at the scene of the homicide he drove home and along with Alex ate the cake — a "Texas stollen" cinnamon and raisin coffee ring cake.
The couple would like to put a similar dish on their café menu at Saving Thyme and name it after Audrey."
Who killed Audrey Gleave?
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"He says police focused on apparent inconsistencies in his recollection of events, but the shock of seeing his friend's body, and the passage of time, blurred many details for him.
At one point, he said he had carried the cake for Gleave into the garage where he discovered the body, but later said he had left the domed-lid Tupperware in his car the whole time. He's now convinced he must have left the cake in the car.
Who killed Audrey Gleave?
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:from the handyman friend's WS post:
So as early as the beginning of November, she told me she didn't want me to purchase anything for her for Christmas, but only to make this cake for her (because, as she often lamented, she was too lazy to make it herself). With respect to the comments about Audrey being a foodie and the surprise that she would let someone make food for her, I think this can be answered by understanding Audrey's approach to cooking/baking. She was a firm believer in scientific method and repeatability. Her recipes had painstaking detail and permitted no creativity whatsoever. In fact, she despised recipes that left room for the cook's personality. This is why she didn't have any problem asking Alex and I to make the cake for her because had "tried me out" before - asking me to make a spaghetti sauce that she loved to death - and she found that I could reliably follow the recipes she gave me. This hopefully also addresses my bringing the cake despite the fact that she was sick. Because it was such a long-planned thing, it didn't even register with me that she wouldn't be able to eat it until she was better.
CANADA - Canada - Audrey Gleave, 73, Ancaster ON, 30 Dec 2010 #2
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:from the handyman friend's WS post:
@ dotr (#523)
- Some quick info about the scheduling of time to drop off the cake. I had originally planned to visit AG on Christmas day but she had emailed me a day or two prior to call it off because she was so sick. So, on Christmas day I called her to check in and that's when we set the definite time to get together around 10am on Thursday for me to drop it off.
CANADA - Canada - Audrey Gleave, 73, Ancaster ON, 30 Dec 2010 #2
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Audrey did tell me when she gave me the code that I was the only person in the world to have it other than herself and she insisted that I not write it down anywhere and only commit it to memory. She gave it to me - she said - in case I ever needed to come while she was out and get tools out of the garage to work.
CANADA - Canada - Audrey Gleave, 73, Ancaster ON, 30 Dec 2010 #2
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