Thank you! I stand corrected. It is merely stock photography indeed. Danielle X, the photographer who created the theme, called it her “I Love Art Theme”. She uploaded the photo to iStockphoto in 2005 as part of that Web site’s “Love Concept” collection. And she tagged it with the original name of her theme, “I love art” and the words paint and tube. Why is all of the above extremely significant you ask?
Because I spent endless hours these last two days searching iStockphoto, ShutterStock, Dreamstime, GettyImages, and even Google Images. Suffice it to say that I’m quite proficient in the use of search engines going all the way back to Archie; and, yet, no matter how hard I tried, I was not once able to find the photograph used on MaxiesHouse, nor any of the other similar photographs in the same theme - at least not without cheating. In other words, one must already have some knowledge of Rebecca’s case to be able to find them with a reasonable amount of ease and within a reasonable amount of time.
There are literally tens of thousands of stock photographs tagged with such innocuous terms as love and heart. To find such a disturbingly evocative image as that chosen by Dina and her MaxiesHouse posse, one MUST search using an ‘explicit phrase’ that includes all three key words: heart, paint and tube.
Furthermore, Danielle’s theme includes multiple photos of the same painted heart and paint tube taken under varying lighting conditions from different angles, distances, and zoom levels. And only two of them strongly resemble a noose – as seen from the same low angle the killer might’ve seen it while draping it over Rebecca’s head.
Who designed Dina’s Web site? Knowing how much input Dina had in the process could lead to revealing lines of questioning during all the hopefully ridiculously intensive depositions to come. Have you all donated to the fund already?
Thanks again!
