This latest article ...wow, this raises different emotions in me.
As far as a criminal trial, what's discussed here (at least, as far as it is discussed) is pretty much non-evidence, IMO. Traces of blood -- human? -- in an otherwise "pristine" fridge -- so no "traces" of lettuce, soda, mayonnaise, butter? And the former tenant isn't gonna tell us whether he had yet cleaned his refrigerator.... Hair that "looks like" SM's ...OK.
It's odd to me that civil cases go forward before a criminal trial commences ... I know they can, in the absence of a conviction, as with the OJ civil suit, but this really strikes me as, maybe, premature. I'm not faulting the Giddings family, it's the system of it that seems strange. The whole thing against the apartment complex (from what we read here in the article, anyhow) seems predicated on SM being the killer. What if he wasn't? Just for example, say a traveling serial killer picked Lauren up while she was out running, killed and dismembered her at a motel, returned the torso (all just for the sake of making a point here). Say the blood in the fridge is beef blood, no torso was ever there. Would the apartment complex logically bear any responsibility?
Some of you attorneys refresh my memory -- what is the standard of proof in a civil case? I know it's not "beyond reasonable doubt" -- what is the term?
And look at that headline: "Blood, hair found in refrigerator of Giddings' neighbor". What does that suggest (especially to someone who might not bother to read on and find out which neighbor). Before the bond-hearing-post-controversy clam-up, I had never thought the Telegraph appeared biased in this case... I thought accusations otherwise were not well founded. But after that -- and now this headline -- I really, really have my doubts about the paper's agenda here.
And, oh, yeah -- just how did they gain access to the contents of this letter? Did someone think it would be in their best interest to share it ...? Not disclosing that, are we.
BB is saying the master key she lost gardening was not one fitting the new master key system installed around the time Lauren and Stephen moved in, right? That, to her knowledge, no master key of that system was missing?