The description of the evidence that Det Earles found shed a whole new light on SC's sick mind. WTF man? I thought the fingertips (with bone) were maybe sliced off in a defensive move on Charli's part but to find only the fingernail and tips of finger skin is disgusting. He intentionally cut her apart. No longer do I excuse him for being a bonehead. Homeboy has some mental health issues. He sat in front of her mama and lied to her face about her daughter's whereabouts knowing good and well he used that filthy 6 inch knife on his belt to dismember this poor woman.
The way the evidence was left in a line is also very telling. He was sloppy on his way out. Was the soil tested for Charli's blood?
yeah, I had real nausea reading about this. In spite of the many discussions of gruesome details we've had here, I could barely get through the Maui Now article.
You think the spacing of the fingernails in a direction means they were dropped by a moving person? I tend to agree. If they were thrown into the jungle, I'd think they would not be in a linear pattern with about the same spacing, maybe the spacing indicates a stride?
Interesting the police lost a pair of sunglasses and a cell phone in that jungly area. Reading this description of the find was helpful to me, because I now see this was never staged to be found. It was really hard for the police to find what they did, with training on searching a grid pattern methodically. It's very possible that SC went back after finding out some crucial pieces were lost, and could not find them, given that the jungle all looks sort of alike and he was there at night. The police searched for two days, while he had maybe an hour of daylight Tuesday, likely less.
I thought with the jawbone fragments that maybe he left these gruesome items thinking it was so unlikely they would be seen in the thick brush, but the nails have the spacing pattern. I'm imagining a bundle that was loosely wrapped and came apart with movement in the dark, but without a better idea of the scene, that is mere conjecture.
Just want to add that it's tough to dig a hole in this type of jungle. I have tried on land that I owned. There is a web of super tough roots typically. There's no part of tropical jungle where plant life is not competing to grow and taking the real estate above and below the surface. A good spade shovel that is narrow, deep, and pointed is the best tool I have found, and he probably did not have the perfect tools for a burial -- unless he had prepared a hole in advance.
Stull trying to figure it out in spite of the revolting details. Kudos to the officers who crawled through maggots.
