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Not necessarily for show, but to ensure drowning. It was a fail-safe.
but that child already passed away so has to be just consistency
unless you think this was a ritualistic killing -- which I don't.
I know I am overlooking it, but what was the strand of "fabric-like" material in MJM's hand linked to?
I don't think it's been definitively determined. Some thought it was the "cloth bracelet," but I don't think that was it. Check out Reply #6 at this link.
Here's terrible thought and I may be too morbid here but there was a rumor and I don't know if it was fact that there was a shoe impression on the back of SB head. It was postulated that he tried to save himself or struggle from the drowning then maybe pushed back in with the killers foot. What if CB was not passed yet and was placed in the water and almost got up with the less secure binding and was given a finishing blow to the back of the head with the blunt object. That might explain some water in the lungs but not drowning cod.
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There would be no other point in tying each victim up, unless you think this was a ritualistic killing -- which I don't.
This may have been discussed already. If so, I apologize. However, one thing about the bodies was the presence of "secondary" lividity. There was lividity on both the front and back of the bodies. Would one or two hours be enough time to cause a second lividity pattern to form? The bodies were found face down (which would cause lividity on the front) and were placed on either the back or the side when recovered (which would cause lividity on the back or opposite side). However, if one or two hours (the time after recovery until Hale wrote his report) isn't enough time to cause lividity, then the "secondary" lividity (or, if you wish "dual" lividity) would be an indication that the bodies had been moved.
You'd expect to see secondary lividity if the bodies were moved at some time prior to 6 hours after death, which is approximately when lividity becomes "fixed" and will no longer shift if the body is moved. Lividity can begin 30 mins- 1 hr after death.