Dr. Wecht has already testified that the damage to Rebecca's neck was severe enough to indicate she had been hanged. She just wasn't dropped the full 9 feet as if she had jumped. It would not have been difficult for Adam to lower her from the balcony with enough force to damage her neck.
JMO, some things may have happened in the guest house, an altercation or something, but Keith Greer pointed out that spots of Rebecca's menstrual blood were found on the carpeting in the balcony room, enough to indicate she had been lying there nude on the floor for a while. There were also spots of her blood in the hallway going to the room from the master bedroom. Greer has speculated she came out of the shower in a towel into the master bedroom. Something caused her to go to the door, where there was an altercation, her towel was dropped and she was led down the hall to the murder room. The spots of her menstrual blood and the towel show how she was forced through the house and onto the floor of the murder room.
For Adam to do that, then bind her up and haul her out to the guest house seems unnecessary and rather risky. Carrying her nude and bound in ropes out through the courtyard, a neighbor may have seen them. It seems like a lot of work and unnecessary moving of her..
But it's possible he asked her to come to the guest house after arriving home (or she went there to see if he needed anything). He may have come on to her. She may have been insulted, resisted his advances, then returned to the house. He may have felt angry and rejected, so went into the mansion and accosted her after she came out of the shower.
Heads up - Graphic - apologies
Hi Betty, I agree with you on many aspects, including that the initial assault took place in the upstairs room. I believe there was an initial struggle, RZ had just got out of the shower and was surprised. The towel fell when she was first confronted, the blood drops happened here.
I would propose that RZ was restrained in the wicker Chair, and suffocated and rendered unconcious with the plastic bag. (think auto erotic asphyxiation?)
RZ DNA is found inside the bag, but not outside it.
Why inside ( due to breath, skin, saliva?) but not outside? Gloved hands of the perpetrator? And why the bag at all...what was it there for, what was its purpose?
The chair was possibly tipped to the right in the struggle. Perhaps her legs were taped to the chair legs ( tape residue only on the front of her legs, the chair legs would prevent the back having residue). In the struggle with the bag on her head and maybe a T-shirt tying her hands behind her back, ( clothing was used as a gag also) and the chair tips to the right....she hits her head on the right side in the struggle, thick pile carpeted flooring would give the same blunt force injuries as found. The diminishing sizes of the four injuries could be a result of her gradually losing conciousness.
She is released from the chair, unconscious. The bag is taken off, left where it fell, as is the chair. The assault with the knife, the sexual assault takes place, no injury as no resistance as she is unconcious.
She is picked up and carried in cover of darkness to the guest house, locked in the storage room while the perpetrator goes to get the rope from the garage...
This initial assault upstairs could require just clothing and sports tape.
The fingerprints on the knife blades indicate RZ came round again when she was tied up, and had a chance to try and cut herself free. There was no rope fragments or rope fray in the bedroom, so where is it? I think it was in the guest house that was not checked by the police.
Theory of the order -
Called from downstairs,
Goes onto balcony to respond, leaves footprints on
Cold wet condensation covered balcony floor,
stands on one foot as speaks over balcony,
can I come up to speak with you?
Confronted in the bedroom door way
Argument, Threatened,
Drops towel to defend herself,
Bound with tape and clothing,
Possible painting of message, ( paint tube was found under the plastic bag)
Screams for help,
Threatened again and gaged,
suffocated with bag from behind,
Chair falls to right, causing head injury on the right of the head,
Sexually Assaulted while unconcious,
Moved under cover of darkness to windowless, concrete built storage room while still unconcious,
Then bound with rope, hog tied,
Left for a period of time,
Comes round,
Tries to free herself with knife,
Discovered, Strangled,
Left for a period of time while deceased,
bedroom and bed, upstairs is staged
Perpetrator cuts hog tie - finds rigor Mortis unexpectedly, she will not hang straight,
Decides to lay her on grass and say she was cut down to fit with the narrative.
Waited for daybreak...
Im so sorry this is so brutal, its so sad...its just my opinion and hypotheses did how it may have all happened...
I welcome any and all feedback...
