Madeleine74
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A claim is being made that the way the fiberglass got to the knife edge in the butcher block is via transfer? From the transcript it wasn't window sill straight to *that* knife; the last question posted (was something left out?) was about processing the utility room before moving on to the kitchen. Utility room may include the window but does not mean only the window or window sill.
I do not buy the fiberglass transfer theory. It's a convenient story to try and explain away a piece of evidence, but I do not see any proof of that, just lots of innuendos.
And why is it believed that fiberglass transfers onto a knife edge so easily because maybe someone used a fingerprint brush that maybe/possibly picked up fiberglass from the screen/window sill, but hairs on a sock do not/cannot transfer and therefore if any hair is on that sock it must (MUST) be from an "intruder"? Kind of convenient to use transfer to explain one piece of evidence and then disregard transfer when it's even more likely (sock in the house, outside the house).
I think the folks who believe (or want to believe) Darlie understand that fiberglass is a nail in Darlie's coffin. Therefore it *has* to be there through some mistake or transfer or something/anything besides that someone in the house used that knife to stage the scene. Because if that fiber is there and it's not there through transfer then... game over.
Saying it 'could have' gotten there from transfer is not proof. And posters on the Interwebs suggesting this hold no weight for me. Did an expert opine this on the stand? Was the jury given this viewpoint to consider? If yes, they clearly rejected it.
And even if one decides to discard the fiberglass evidence altogether because they don't trust it, there's still so much else to look at and none of it points to an intruder in the house. I can understand why some people look askance at Darin. Afterall he was the only other adult in the house that night/morning. So if it was an inside job and there was no intruder, it was either Darlie or Darin, right?
Show me the evidence of an intruder. I've not seen it.
Why was the scene staged? Some of it was cleaned up--luminol allowed us to know that. For what reason if not as part of a hasty staging?
I do not buy the fiberglass transfer theory. It's a convenient story to try and explain away a piece of evidence, but I do not see any proof of that, just lots of innuendos.
And why is it believed that fiberglass transfers onto a knife edge so easily because maybe someone used a fingerprint brush that maybe/possibly picked up fiberglass from the screen/window sill, but hairs on a sock do not/cannot transfer and therefore if any hair is on that sock it must (MUST) be from an "intruder"? Kind of convenient to use transfer to explain one piece of evidence and then disregard transfer when it's even more likely (sock in the house, outside the house).
I think the folks who believe (or want to believe) Darlie understand that fiberglass is a nail in Darlie's coffin. Therefore it *has* to be there through some mistake or transfer or something/anything besides that someone in the house used that knife to stage the scene. Because if that fiber is there and it's not there through transfer then... game over.
Saying it 'could have' gotten there from transfer is not proof. And posters on the Interwebs suggesting this hold no weight for me. Did an expert opine this on the stand? Was the jury given this viewpoint to consider? If yes, they clearly rejected it.
And even if one decides to discard the fiberglass evidence altogether because they don't trust it, there's still so much else to look at and none of it points to an intruder in the house. I can understand why some people look askance at Darin. Afterall he was the only other adult in the house that night/morning. So if it was an inside job and there was no intruder, it was either Darlie or Darin, right?
Show me the evidence of an intruder. I've not seen it.
Why was the scene staged? Some of it was cleaned up--luminol allowed us to know that. For what reason if not as part of a hasty staging?