rbarber17
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The trunk is easily explained. There was only one reason they opened it the way they did. They had a girl burned alive already. They had to make sure there wasn't another person in the trunk. There was an urgency in ripping it open instead of waiting to get in through the backseat after knocking the fire down.
I think you may be right about that, SeriouslySearching. If you compare the pictures of the trunk lid in DeDee's Post #635 you will note that the earlier photo taken at the M&M on December 6th shows the trunk lid gapped open (assumed to be in the CS "as left" condition) but not bent. Compare that to the subsequent photo taken in the impound lot, where it had been pried open further, at least based on the bulging bent area and the increased opening size. So the first gap was made just large enough to shine a flashlight inside to be sure no other victims were inside the trunk at the CS, agreed. But the second enlargement of that opening several hours later, when there was no fire to knock down and no time issues, was to look for something else inside. Surely the car would have been cooled down by then. Why not just go through the back seat, if indeed it was wide open then, as some have suggested?
There remains the secondary issue about what means was used to enlarge that gap. Some have suggested either a tire iron or a crowbar was used, while others claim the frame from either a unicycle or a velocipede was used. The two camps have decided to agree to disagree on this.
JMO