Yeah, I know -- me either.
I'd normally say I was happy to help, but it's hard to feel much that way when the whole story is so sad and nightmarish. The documents don't contain happy news, but the quietness is unsettling, considering what took place.
Reading through the documents, there are quite a few extra details that I don't recall reading elsewhere before. For instance:
- Andrew apparently re-enacted the crime in his home for the police, using a stuffed animal in place of his brother.
- A deputy was able to observe blood near the trunk area of his car.
- Andrew described to them that some blood had also transferred to a chair in their home, and had gotten on a gray sweatshirt that he'd been wearing, which he changed out of and put in a clothes closet.
- He put the gloves that he used to strangle his brother on a chair in the room he shared with Conner.
- The bag he taped around Conner's neck was a dark bag.
- His initial story was that he took his brother's body and put it behind "the recycling thing" before he went to the girlfriend's, but the autopsy results showed that the body had spent time resting in different positions other than the one in which it was finally found, so he admitted he had lied and that the body had actually been in his trunk while at his girlfriend's.
- A friend went with him at one point after he confessed the murder to them (name blanked out at one point, but later a first name traditionally used for males and beginning with "J" later appears), and the two of them supposedly couldn't find the body. (Note: It didn't sound like it was especially well-hidden, so I wonder why. I also wonder if the friend was instrumental in convincing Andrew to visit the police station, since it doesn't appear that anyone else is being or has been charged in the matter.)
- The parents were at the police station at more than one point, initially signing a waiver granting permission for Andrew to talk to the police.
- The parents were given the chance to talk with Andrew privately, which his mother did.
- He'd gone into his father's room on
two separate occasions while his father was sleeping the morning of the 29th of November, both times with the intent of killing him with a knife.
- The father was asked to look at an autopsy photo of Conner to identify him.
- The father declined the opportunity to speak with Andrew at the time of a subsequent interview.
