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I wasn't responding specifically to your post but rather to point out things often speculated on without any evidence to support the speculation, which then become "facts" and posted in a sticky somewhere. As an example in post #526 it is stated that Suzie's dog was heard to bark at ~1:30 am, and that is simply not true and pure speculation. Even the witness reporting hearing a bark could not state as fact that the dog could be Suzie's dog. We don't know that Suzie's dog was out either time that night and was the one reported to have been seen later that morning. But you would agree that if it was seen then the doggie door was not locked because it had to get back inside the house where it was found by Janelle that day?
You are correct in that we don't know how long Suzie suffered a stomach ache that night. What we can know for certain is that she had it when she left home at ~8:00 pm and that she had it long enough that all of her friends knew she had it, especially Shane Appleby who she spent the most time with. It may be that she tolerated it because it was a night we all only get to have once in our lives, but probably was a deciding factor in her returning to 1717 to sleep instead of staying anywhere else.
What we don't have is any evidence that the girls stayed up snacking at 1717 once they got there. We don't have the proverbial bowl of pineapple & ice tea glass as we do in the JonBenet Ramsey case. There is no evidence that the girls stayed up eating anything. To speculate on that without evidence of support is to alter the timeline on what possibly could have happened.
And unless you know what SPD may be holding back you are simply speculating when you say that they aren't interested in possible points of entry other than the front door?
All I am saying is that we should be careful about speculating about what might have happened without evidence to support it because those speculations have a way of becoming fact and misused by others.
Thank you, I appreciate being reminded of the facts and I totally understand what you mean by speculation becoming "facts". Yes, I do agree if the dog running around the neighborhood was Cinnamon, the doggie door would had to have been unlocked. But conversely, if the dog wasn't Cinnamon, it still could have been locked and the reason why the girls might have opened the door to Suzie's room to let the dog out and back in and this could have been how the perps got in (this is speculation).
I apologize for making things murky. I just feel like the facts have led people nowhere for 20 years and at some point people should take a step back to see what they have forgotten to notice like the aspects of human nature (girls getting ready to go to bed and hanging out for a bit beforehand) and canine nature