As far as I know they were photographed as they were found as that was one of the questions asked in court to which TM replied 'I don't recall' . There was an article in the independent yesterday where Ralph Reigel described the photo of JC in the ambulance as looking as though he had been 'dipped in blood', and if you look at this picture of the brick, you can see a bloody finger print at the top so the perpetrators hand must have been saturated in blood to leave that print.
http://extra.ie/news/irish-news/pictured-inside-jason-corbett-murder-house
This is not at all what I expected. Thanks so much for the picture. I thought they were doing a landscaping project and had new bricks or pavers.
I had bricks "edging" some landscaping in a previous house. Weather erodes them like this and they get chipped and broken. This looks like a weathered brick that has been outside for years.
It looks to me like MM just stepoed outside that front door by the Master bedroom door and picked this out of the "edging." It would have left an empty spot where it had been, but the M's had quick access to the house, so they would have taken care of that.
And if she was doing this as an art project at home, with no school in session...wouldn't she have two bricks...one for each child?
Another point I've been mulling over, as school is about to start this week in the Carolinas. I bet MM was frantic over the kids making that trip to Ireland with JC.
It is so soon after school starts, but JC still has plans made to take them and seemingly, without her. She has to call TL to find out more about the plans. I wonder when school starts in Ireland? I wonder if she feared he would get them over there, start them in school, and come home alone to divorce her. That way the children would be safe from the drama of their marriage ending.
JC's passport on the bedside table is curious. I wonder if in her conversations with TM as they drove down, he told her to find the kids passports and hide them. I agree with the poster who suggested maybe the only one she could find was his. I believe he kept the kids passports at his office...which is telling, in itself, that they were kept separate from his.
While JC cut the grass, MM was looking for those passports...calling TM to get new ideas where to look. But they were not there.
When they arrived, arrogant TM would interrogate JC about his plans, They all argued with him. But this time, they were ignored and JC went to bed.
They must have been collectively furious. They were so superior in their minds and JC was not bending to their will.
I think her fatal mistake with JC was trying to turn the children against him, something her DV tape suggests to me. "Ignore him, we will eat without him, he's nobody, I'm all that matters. I'm your MOM."
He put up with her mental illness, but when he saw her trying to destroy his children's love for him, that was intolerable. That and her changing treatment of young JC.