I'd like to put something out there for other posters to look at please. It's a follow-up to a post by BeTrue on the previous thread (sorry, I'm not sure how to link it so I'm putting it here in its entirety in quotes):
"By BeTrue
Looking at the video of the scene, I ask the question, was this heinous attack over very quickly? With all we have now seen, blood spatter seems to stay predominately to one side of the room so
We assume Jason's side of bed, then on down hallway, into bathroom then back up hallway and an obvious attempt to make it out throughout the door which sadly failed.
Small area - Jason hit in bed gets up disorientated heads towards bathroom as I imagine you would in shock to see your head or wash (head injuries can cause people to become extremely un coordinated)
Hit in bathroom, heads back up hallway, trying to get out, heaviest and deadliest blows reigned around doorway causing death.
If I think of it this way it makes sense, but what doesn't make sense to me now is how TM had time to get up there if it played out as blood spatter looks. He would have to be in the room when it started or come to clean up.
And YES I now believe the attack was silent not because of tm lies/ explanation, because the first blow depending on where to the head could have easily left jason completely in shock and dazed, he could have been internally bleeding affecting, speech, movement coordination and it explains to me why he may have had no idea he was walking towards the bathroom and not to the door to freedom or help.
For the first time I feel this sits right with me. SM didn't go up the stairs because tm told her not to she would trample in blood ruin their scene, the clean up he has experience with crime scenes. It also fits better the timeline, if 911 called at three, presuming clean up was hour or more this brings us up to 1.30. JC junior home at 11.30, very plausible after snack, tv jason may not have got to bed be For 1, 1.30
Jmo"
Most of this makes sense to me, but IMO there's a twist. TM states in the trial and in the 20/20 interview that he awoke to 'thumping and noises upstairs' as per the following tweet:
[video=twitter;893597171890737152]https://twitter.com/LexDispatchBC/status/893597171890737152[/video]
Why would there be thumping noises from a choking episode? I believe that what he heard was MMs attack on JC. He wouldn't have known where the mystery bat was, so I'm assuming that MM took that in a (possibly drunken) rage, and started with the bat or the paver. IMO, these were the 'thumps' he heard. He didn't get there 'til the very end. Maybe he transfered MMs words into JCs mouth "I'm going to kill HIM" "I know I shouldn't be doing this".
He's shocked, tries to stop what's happening (so gets spatter on himself), realises that JC is too far gone and she's in deep do-do. She's still raging, saying that he's mistreating her, abusing her (meaning that he's leaving her and taking the kids), and so the story of DV is concocted, staged and he's thinking that his credentials will blind local yokels into accepting the story - mistakenly.
This is the one that sits right with me...