scadagirl28
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NCSBI - Divisions Hope this is it ?! If not I am handing over to the God of mischief lol
NCSBI - Divisions Hope this is it ?! If not I am handing over to the God of mischief lol
NCSBI - Divisions Hope this is it ?! If not I am handing over to the God of mischief lol
I think you’re probably right, but I would say to CHPD: your brilliant selves have gotten nowhere with this case. Let it all out and see what happens!As to why they haven't released TOD, I believe it is a combination of things.
1) The window is probably wide enough to not be definitive. It's probably something like 3 AM to 7 AM, with a "probable" range somewhat narrower than that.
2) At this point, I believe that's a piece of information LE have decided they just are not going to release. There are always bits of information that LE controls in every case, and I think that's one of them here.
The impression I've always gotten here is that LE believes the public could be of assistance in a few, limited ways. Someone recognizing the Paragon image, someone who lived nearby remembering something somebody said about it, somebody remembering a friend who started acting weird right afterwards, etc. To that end, I think they are encouraging of coverage the case gets, to get the word out about it, and to reach people who may know something but hadn't heard about it before.
But I don't think they believe that the public will come up with some new investigatory idea that will help them solve the case, which is why they are so tight-lipped about giving out any additional details about it. For the same reason, I also don't think they care when these shows start exploring theories that they know are wrong-headed; I just don't think they're all that interested in our theorizing. They just want the right person to hear about the case and remember something helpful.
Probably doesn't mean much, but interesting that the document you link to lists the time of crime as "2:40 a.m. to 11 a.m." apparently allowing for possibility of Faith already being dead when KR left apt. at 4:30 am.
Let’s talk some more about time of death. I’ve been doing a little research and reaching out to people knowledgeable on the subject, and there are a few considerations there that I think we should address.
So, first of all, there would have been a Crime Scene Investigator, possibly several of them, at the scene, and they would have attempted to figure the time of death then, based on the condition of the body. They wouldn’t need to try to figure it out from the autopsy like I’m about to. Police almost certainly have a relatively good estimation of it, they just aren’t sharing what it is.
We may be able to guesstimate based on what the autopsy says, but there are a few things we need to account for.
First, the autopsy was done at 9 am the following day, September 8th. Once the body was removed from the crime scene, it would have been taken to the morgue and refrigerated, which would have stopped or very greatly slowed the spread of rigor mortis. So the condition the body is in at the time of the autopsy is going to be pretty much the same as it would have been once it arrived at the morgue.
As to rigor, the autopsy reports “minimal in upper and lower extremities, +2 in jaw.” According to the chart Webthrush provided in post 366, that seems to indicate a time of death right around 7-8 hours: Rigor mortis is firmly established in the face but only beginning to be seen in the rest of the body.
Let’s say that the time of death is 7-8 hours previous based on the autopsy. The question now is “Seven or 8 hours before what time?”
So, next, we have to try to figure that out, and the answer isn’t “11 am.” Faith was found at 11 am, and police arrived on scene about ten minutes later. Once they had secured the scene and determined that a suspicious homicide had occurred, they would have called in experts to process the scene. Here is a website I found that discusses this at length: How long does it take to examine a Crime Scene?
Let me highlight this paragraph: “Most murder scenes will take several days to process properly. Quite apart from the work done by the CSI’s, outside experts will often be called in. A Pathologist, to look at the body in situ before it’s taken for a full post mortem. A Blood Pattern Analysis expert. A Ballistics expert if a gun was involved. If a gun has been left at the scene, that requires special treatment from a Firearms Officer. And so on.”
We don’t know anything at all about the processing of the crime scene. In all the information that’s been released, I can’t recall anything being said on that subject. But given the above, I’d say, conservatively, that Faith’s body probably did not leave the scene and arrive at the morgue for at least 2 hours. At that point, it would have been placed in the refrigerated morgue, but for those 2 hours, it’s still in a room temperature apartment and the death processes are continuing.
So, I think the time we’re counting back from is going to be between 1 and 1:30 pm. Using the 7 to 8 hour range, that gives us a time of death between 5 am and 6:30 am. That window makes sense to me, since it’d be enough time for the perp to ascertain that KR wasn’t coming back and still allow for some time before sunrise.
I like the way you think and research.
I will add a personal anecdote, though, just to muddy the waters. Lol
I live in the area and 15 years ago in Raleigh, my former boss committed suicide. It’s a long story, but I ended up at the scene with a relative and I had to stay as a representative of the family until the body was removed (the relative went to tell my boss’ parents in person). This was clearly a suicide - there was a lengthy note, written by hand and he had been depressed and alcoholic for years. But it took them at least 4 or 5 hours from when they arrived on the scene and found the body for it to be removed.
Medical examiners facing scrutiny
This article was written in 2014...Dr.Deborah Radisch was present during Faith’s autopsy (there were a number of errors on Faith’s autopsy I found)...with so many questions regarding what the report lacks...this article futhers my thoughts that this investigation is botched. This was only one article written about IMO, crappy OCME work. There are a lot more. JMO, we wonder why killers walk around free. JMO, this makes a defense attorneys job pretty easy. #J4F
ETA: wording