Compassionate Reader
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Right! Sorry. Sometimes while I'm typing another post is made, which can lead to confusion! I guess I should be clearer.
I think I mentioned this before, but my theory is that the three boys went swimming somewhere in the Robin Hood area (maybe Devil's Den), and that CB took off his medical bracelet before entering the water. IIRC, MM was carrying a watch on the day of the murders, and that watch was never found either. Watches and medical bracelets (when they are strung on jewelry wire) are items that should be removed before entering the water, while a friendship bracelet can stay on.
Swimming might have occurred, but the retention pond was for waste from the BB. I'm not sure that would have been a good place to swim, either. At least two of the boys had pools at home. If they wanted to swim, why not swim there?
One of those things may have been the emasculation of CB, if it was post-mortem. TH worked in a slaughter house for several years in his younger life, so I don't think he would have been too squeamish to do that. If the emasculation was ante-mortem, it's a whole different story. I agree that even TH wouldn't do that.
Lethalmatthew wrote:
Thread: Questions on JD and SJ post #28
Can't agree with this LM. This was a violent crime, even if some of the wounds are animal predation, these three boys were beaten in a horrendous fashion. The person who killed these three boys was way over the border of mental or emotional rationality, or all rationality was distorted, to say the least. The thought that someone would be prepared to dismember post mortem, but not ante-mortem (which would also include an unconscious state), does not fit IMO.
If the emasculation occurred ante-mortem, we would possibly have a different motive, but not necessarily a different perp. A post-mortem emasculation, could point to a necrophiliac-sexual motive, where as an ante-mortem emasculation would tend more in the direction of a sadistic-sexual motive.
If the death of these three boys was an uncontrolled response, (which I don't believe it was, one boy, yes, three boys no way), the emasculation does not make sense. Would the perp have the need to do something this extreme to stage it as a sex crime ?. There would be simpler ways I think.
In this case, I would tend towards animal predation.
If the emasculation was carried out consciously by a sex offender, why not all three boys ? If someone indulges in doing this sort of thing, why miss the opportunity ?
We also have the possibility that part of the injuries to CB's genitals was done by the perp., the other part was animal predation. This would possibly explain why animal predation only occurred on CB's genitals.
TH in the slaughter house ? Could have a bearing, but doesn't have to mean a thing.
I find something else far more disturbing, and that is the slashing of PH's clothes, down to her underwear, possibly with a box cutter, motive: Jealousy.
I only know this sort of thing from serial killers, very disturbing.
In the initial case, the emasculation was pushed towards being ante-mortem, we all know why. Later, the defence team pushed it in the direction of post-mortem animal predation, which is feasible IMO, but not definite. Either way, we will probably never know. If a general motive could be found, maybe the personality of the perp would give us more of an idea if this could have occurred for a certain reason.