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The Telegraph has also learned that authorities found what resembled fingernail scratches on McDaniel, two sources familiar with the murder investigation say. Police found the marks on McDaniels torso when he was booked into the Bibb County jail on burglary charges.
Torso.. What resembled to be fingernail scratches were found on SM's torso when he was being booked into Bibb Co.. He was arrested July,1.. Lauren's disappearance as well as IMO most likely died as well late night of June 25 or wee early morning hours of June 26.. That is almost a full week length of time to have passed between the murder(where and when I feel most likely the scrape/scratch injuries were received on SM's torso).. Almost a full week is a good amount of time to have passed giving fingernail scratches a pretty good amount of time to have been healed IMO.. I am actually surprised they were still visible.. Of course I am thinking of just "scratches" when given the situation and I feel that if they are indeed as what police suspect they that they are.. Then I'd say it could be quite likely these were defensive wounds inflicted by the victim onto her perpetrator during the attack/murder.. Therefor I could see it possibly for them to be quite significant in nature meaning that in fighting for one's life and only to be able to sadly maneuver one's self into a position that the victim could only retaliate at that time with her nails.. I imagine that they could be quite deep and/or severe injuries inflicted as an attempt to wound her perp..
I must say something that immediately struck me when I very first heard that this was thought to have been found on SM(the scratches on his torso).. I must admit my very first intuition was the bright young woman, even at this time in fighting for her very life was possibly thinking "outside the box" of the moment at hand.. Possibly realizing that she may not get out of the situation alive and was grasping amd attempting to leave behind clues by having her perpetrators DNA under her fingernails.. Some may find that far fetched, but infact it's been proven to be the case in several cases over the years that it was only the victims possibly thinking about what would become of this killer if she weren't able to survive the attack, thus leading them to cleverly leave behind evidence of their perp in a place such as under her nails..
So, while I feel at least it is a possibility of why the scratches were inflicted as definitely number one to attempt to wound her perp and possibly number two to leave behind his DNA under her nails.. Just as Lauren may have been knowledgable of cases with this exact type DNA link as to solving murders.. So, too would SM quite likely have that same knowledge as well.. Therefor he took measures to prohibit this from being left to find and trace back to him.. He ensured there'd be no analysis going to be done of Lauren's fingernail scrapings..
This makes me terribly saddened to think about what wouldve or could've been going thru her mind in the moments such as this and others leading up to her losing consciousness..
So, when looking at the scratches on SM's torso from thAt perspective(done out of self defense and/or in thinking ahead and ensuring DNA from the perp under her fingernails) from that view I can easily see how that there's a great possibility those type injuries would not have been completely and quickly healed in under a week's time as a small surface scratch normally would be.. But rather there's a great chance they were pretty deep claw marks that had been healing for nearly that week's time since they were inflicted.. Indicating she really put up a fight of resistance (even thru what I imagine to be an ambush style attack with her at a disadvantage and left vulnerable).. Even tho she still fought like hell as well as dug her nails into his skin hoping that he'd not stand a chance of not being found out as her murderer..
Just some thoughts and opinions(and nothing more) in speaking of some of the newer info that has come to light..