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OK, tomkat -- back for more.
It also sounds to me that, over the nights of these alleged perfect-murder discussions, SM probably changed the scenario from time to time, added to it, etc.
One thing I'm really curious to know is whether SM continued to have these kinds of discussions with other acquaintances -- if there are any similar reports beyond "the Thad Money years".
Me, too -- that is, if it is true that there was not much evidence left behind.
I don't remember any "DNA in the drain" article, to tell the truth -- although there sure may have been one and I have just forgotten. (Do you happen to have a link to one?) I know we read that they were pulling the plumbing and searching the drains, etc., but I don't recall hearing of what, if anything, that yielded. I think most of the assumption that the dismemberment happened in one of the bathrooms, likely Lauren's own, was from the intense LE focus there and from the marks on Lauren's tub (and it being removed).
In my post pondering the implications of "no evidence of dismemberment in a bathroom", I was reaching back only as far as the just-before-Christmas articles and documents, from which we finally learned something about the results of the Luminol exams. Apparently, Luminol reacted with something around the drain in Lauren's tub and on the walls of the tub up to a height of several feet. But the catch is -- was it blood? Was it something else that can react with Luminol (such as bleach, I think)? Had blood been there, but was so obliterated by bleach or Luminol that it would not identify as blood in further kinds of testing?
Weird that you mentioned other apartments not being checked, because, just after reading your series of posts, when I went to link the article about the odor/brush-cutting above, I happened to notice that it also mentions, just in passing, that during that same time (early July), LE also checked every apartment in the complex. If I'd ever registered that, I had forgotten it. I wonder if it wasn't just a quick look-see, though -- doubt they were Luminoling all the bathrooms, for instance!
Or, as you note in another post, if he killed Lauren, maybe it was not to implement a "perfect murder" plan, but in a panic after being caught at something else devious -- and he just then fell into some of the pattern he had worked out in his mind in the "perfect murder" musings.Just some things that come to mind:
a: doesn't seem that all of SM desired scenario has been played out, so he either didnt' do it, didn't do it exactly has he'd dreamed or got excited and screwed up <snipped>
It also sounds to me that, over the nights of these alleged perfect-murder discussions, SM probably changed the scenario from time to time, added to it, etc.
One thing I'm really curious to know is whether SM continued to have these kinds of discussions with other acquaintances -- if there are any similar reports beyond "the Thad Money years".
c: I've always wondered HOW, with some time restraints, dismemberment was carried out in the apts with not much if any evidence left behind from such brutality
Me, too -- that is, if it is true that there was not much evidence left behind.
d: WAS there EVER any evidence that a crime was committed in the bathroom?? or was it assumed by readers because their was mention of DNA found in the bathroom drain in LG apt. If anyone ever used it, there'd be DNA, right? Not necessarily SM DNA in Laurens drain but no doubt Laurens, I dont remember the "DNA in the drain discovery" article ever mentioned blood, may be wrong . When they say DNA didn't necessarily automatically think it had to be blood.
I don't remember any "DNA in the drain" article, to tell the truth -- although there sure may have been one and I have just forgotten. (Do you happen to have a link to one?) I know we read that they were pulling the plumbing and searching the drains, etc., but I don't recall hearing of what, if anything, that yielded. I think most of the assumption that the dismemberment happened in one of the bathrooms, likely Lauren's own, was from the intense LE focus there and from the marks on Lauren's tub (and it being removed).
In my post pondering the implications of "no evidence of dismemberment in a bathroom", I was reaching back only as far as the just-before-Christmas articles and documents, from which we finally learned something about the results of the Luminol exams. Apparently, Luminol reacted with something around the drain in Lauren's tub and on the walls of the tub up to a height of several feet. But the catch is -- was it blood? Was it something else that can react with Luminol (such as bleach, I think)? Had blood been there, but was so obliterated by bleach or Luminol that it would not identify as blood in further kinds of testing?
e: I do find it hard to believe that the crime was commited elsewhere, maybe on the BH grounds, inside or outside, becuase it seems difficult (maybe not they aren't rediculously large) but definitely dumb (clearly in this case) to transport the torso back to the apts had the dismemberment taken place elsewhere, still baffled that there wasn't a huge mess and more discovered by Detectives if it took place inside, but then again, no other apts were checked but the 3
Weird that you mentioned other apartments not being checked, because, just after reading your series of posts, when I went to link the article about the odor/brush-cutting above, I happened to notice that it also mentions, just in passing, that during that same time (early July), LE also checked every apartment in the complex. If I'd ever registered that, I had forgotten it. I wonder if it wasn't just a quick look-see, though -- doubt they were Luminoling all the bathrooms, for instance!