Yes. When I listened to the news conference yesterday and heard the police chief mutter that portion I had to replay it 3 times to make sure that is what he said.
I simply couldn't believe none of the local reporters are making a big deal over that fact! One of the reporters specifically asked him about it so why hush it up!
I think the reporting on this case has been anemic, to say the least.
If the killer did in fact dump the body hastily after the police searched the site that changes everything -- that isn't a "message", it is as you said, it is a hasty decision in the last minute. Wonder if the motivation would be heat/smell? Once the police arrived it became obvious people might notice an odd smell from the apartment etc... The average refrigerator could easily not hold a whole body, so perhaps parts needed to be sacrificed.
Precisely. It truly appears to me that the torso had to be sacrificed as police closed in.
This is starting to sound like an off the chain schizophrenic that has totally lost their mind!
That's why I feel like this crime has shades of the Richard Trenton Chase murders.
I also agree on the cannibalism/necro interests. There was no reason to dismember this girl (small person) so unless it was supposed to be a shocking message the only other reason would be a purient interest in the act of dismemberment itself. They should have the rape kit completed by this week (sheesh not sure why it takes that long actually, though apparently the police don't want to release any details about this crime).
Yes! I'm so glad someone else sees it. If she has been dead since last weekend I can think of no other reason for her body to only just now have been disposed of and in the state it was found. Obviously wasn't an attempt to conceal her identity, the dismemberment served a much more sinister purpose.
I also think the neighbor kid innocent. Whomever did this is nuts and doesn't give a hoot about conceiling evidence. They have searched his apartment (probably several times) so I can't imagine that he would be so meticiulous as to NOT leave something of evidence. Plus this dumb kid willfully admitted to prior burglaries, he is a law student and should have known better, if he admitted to that he would likely have admitted to everything after tough grilling.
I agree that McDaniel is a problematic suspect. On the one hand, considering how few people lived in the building and how likely it is that whoever killed Giddings lived close enough to her to observe the search and police presence and dump the remains quickly without seeming out of place at the scene. Also, I am gonna make a bet that the items he burglarized from neighbors were intimate items, likely panties. What else would grab the attention of police as not possibly belonging to him?
If he's a panty thief, well, that doesn't bode well. On the other hand, they have turned his apartment upside down and so far the only thing they can charge him with is burglary of other neighbors, not Giddings. I also agree that if he was so easy to crack about the burglary he'd be easy to crack in general, however, many liars will reveal a small offense in order to appear to be honest about and innocent of a greater offense so we may be looking at that.
If only the media would get on this case, we'd know more, it's insane how little we're hearing, Casey Anthony case or no. Hell, I am obsessively following the Anthony case and have made friends with several of the lawyers involved [not counsel but people like Mark NeJame] due to my obsession but I'm still scouring the internet for any news I can get on the Giddings case! :banghead:
