Okay... I'll start...
a) evidence that was on one of the children (ugh), what was that evidence?
Chris Hayes addressed this in his notes.
One of the children was not touched at first, because there was evidence on him. What was that evidence? At first I thought it might be the sheet with painting, i.e. they wanted to make sure to get good photos of the sheets. BUT painting was noted in the case of both children. SO, what was the evidence?
Was it the ligature? Was this the last victim (also it was the youngest, i.e. did he take out the oldest to the youngest?), thus CC did not remove the ligature to move on to another victim (there were no more, unless he was going to commit suicide -- yeah right)? He just then immediately went to whatever his so-called clean up had to be at that point? Is it possible that LE was trying to fake CC out in some way by saying there was a looped cord along the highway? CC knew where he left the ligature he used, but was LE saying, "Uh, we found the remnant of the cord you didn't use buddy..." Did he maybe leave the actual murder weapon at the scene, but carried and tossed out that which was not used along the highway?
Could the evidence have been a mask that the perp pulled off once he knew there was no longer anyone in the home to resist him?
What other evidence might this have been -- a glove? Something that dropped out of the pocket of the perp onto the bed?
b) other words besides "punished" written in the house, will there be more misspellings, will there be consistent "internet text" type of connections between what was on the walls and CC's internet text habit patterns?
My hope is that there is a cross match in linguistics that is indisputable.
c)
the amount of money contributed to the solicited defense fund? How much came in, really? Did someone actually contribute $250K as rumored? Why would anyone contribute that much? What are people's guesstimates on contributions to this fund and why? Were the contributions made through the church so that people could use them as a write off (this would be inappropriate "earmarking.")
I understand that with some people it is commonplace to gift money at the time of a funeral, i.e. not to gift flowers, not to gift contributions to some group in memoriam, but to gift money to the family due to an understanding of the need for the cost of a funeral.
Is it at all possible that someone actually felt so attached to the RC family or CC that they would actually gift $250K to a defense fund? The viewing and the funeral occurred at a time when suspicions about CC had already begun to arise, but had not been made public. Would someone actually give this huge amount? Who might have the ability? Do you think that anyone that was solicited was told, "Can you believe they interviewed Chris for X hours? You know he is innocent..." What was in the solicitation, what did people hear, and will they talk?
Has anyone in WS ever had an experience in their business or in their church life to see any such huge gift for any such purpose? I can see something like this to help build a church to serve many people over a long course of time, but I just can't see this for a defense fund -- so kinda think the rumor is bogus. BUT... There were some hundreds who went to the viewing, what might have been raised for the defense fund AND were all people solicited or just a select few?
