PrimeSuspect
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There are a few clues which, for me, point to him being in full control. It would puzzle me if this was an out of control event.
One is that he seems to have had a plan worked out for dealing with the family one by one, drawing them in and using the element of surprise, and dealing with the men first. Not only that but it was frenzied but not so frenzied that he lost sense of what the others were doing and having to manage them before they got away.
Two is that he may have worn gloves, because he put gloves on the imaginary intruder and I think it would have been really difficult to wipe fingerprints off the axe handle without it being obvious that blood that was there had been wiped away too. We know he went for at least one walk, and it would have been easy to hide gloves in someone's bin or a bush or buried them somewhere.
Three is that he had awareness of reality and therefore didn't have the courage to really hurt himself, or to phone emergency services until much later and four is that he remembers the events and the sequence.
On another note I'm intrigued that he left the attack on Marli out of his statements. He could not bring himself to lie about her because he didn't know if she would survive and remember, so he just left it out.
I'm hoping we will hear a medical opinion on Marli's ability to have survived the cut to her jugular vein, and whether it had to have been inflicted later than the head injuries.
I've been mulling over this for days.
Marli is the only one with her throat cut, why so much effort to kill her but not HvB? The intruders mission was to ensure Martin, Teresa, Rudi, and Marli die because....??!! One intruder clumsily fought with HvB even though there was another man doing nothing downstairs, maybe even two according to HvB!
Did HvB cut Marli's throat just before or not long after he made the call to emergency? He must have done the rounds to make sure every one was dead, Marli was still breathing, he went downstairs and took a knife from the block, returned to her and cut her throat. He then inflicted the wounds on himself.
And, Sasha the dog, where was she? There's no police report that she was covered in blood, so why not? Was she in the bathroom with HvB and she remained there the whole time?
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