Good Morning,
I guess my question that got lost was the last one on the previous thread, but I was wondering if anything has been said about a safety gate at the top of the stairs? I thought I read a post by Strach where she said it was closed. Has anyone read anything about this?
I'm trying to think like a profiler after watching a Daryl Hinman marathon last week!~ LOL
I think whoever killed Michelle took care to do certain things after the murder that showed caring for Stephanie. She evidently was left in the room with her mom to have gotten blood on her feet, or at least been able to walk into her mom's bedroom:
a} If there was a gate and it was secured before the killer went back down the stairs, it says to me they wanted the baby safe from harm and seperated from the dog.
b} After the dispatcher on the 911 call told her not to move anything, Meridith said she had moved a pillow. That tells me there was a reason to move it which would have to be she wanted to see something that would be underneath it. Like a face, right, to see if it indeed was her sister.
That would mean the killer took time to toss or set a pillow over whatever it was. Why? Michelle was found on her stomach, but part of her face could have been visible. Tradition says that when someone dies you cover their face, right? I think this was part of the instructions given to whomever actually killed her.
c} The house was not broken into.
To me all these factors, if they are fact, add up to the great possibility that the killer was someone close to Michelle or instructed by someone personally attached to her. It is unusual I think for the bit of decorum with the pillow and concern for the safety of the baby.
Reading through today's posts I see we really have very little to even speculate with which is too bad. We're pulling at straws. But if the Sheriff meant what he said when he used the words 'persons who did this' it intimates more than one person being involved in her death. I take that as fact from what he said. Moving the pillow is a fact. The baby being left with access to her mom, as shown by bloody footprints is a fact {though I think 'all over the house' could have been an exageration caused by the trauma of the scene}.
I also think the office where the fax machine was could have been upstairs adjacent to the MB as it is in so many houses, which is why Meridith possibly headed upstairs.
Scandi
LOL ... well, I guess when I dropped my 'bomb' about another woman, I didn't want the regular egg on my face, heh ... 