Recent content by aspidistra

I am not that religious that I would beg Jesus to raise someone from the dead. I am too scientific to believe it could happen. But when I found my mother dead in her hospital bed (no one bothered to call me) I threw myself on her and kissed her and cried and washed her body and rearranged her...

The Percy case had a tremendous effect on me because as I recall I was her age at the time and someone got in thru a sliding glass door and they never found the killer. I would cry in the bathroom with the door locked which didn't have a window big enough for someone to climb in, and fall...

So the crime scene photos were taken after Fleet White was in the basement and touched and moved the suitcase? I have never read this. Lou Smit uses the photo of the suitcase under the window in his presentation of how the killer got in and out. He believes the killer moved it there to boost...

In one police interview, Patsy said she took off the velvet pants JBR wore to the party. She found some long johns (also called long underwear or pajama bottoms) and put them on. There is no mention of socks. She remained sleeping in the shirt she wore to the party, and was found dead in the...

He said he came in through the same window you can see in the crime scene photos, with the suitcase under it. It's the window with the grate on the outside. He also left through the window. He said he chose the window as he used to work in construction and knew most basement windows are not...

What bloodhounds? Are any of them at all interested in the case anymore? Mary Lacy says that Karr's family provided an alibi, and the dna doesn't match. Then a couple days later Karr's ex wife admits they were separated and he might not have been with her at Xmas. What else might she not know...

The stun gun was a theory. I hate theories where you have to do weird tests and manipulate the results to make them fit. The stun gun is and always will remain just a theory. I know they were sincere in trying to explain the marks on her body. Why did they not just think harder of other possible...

If she remained asleep it's obvious neither parent read to her. Patsy testified that she said a prayer. Columbo or Sherlock Holmes would have had the case solved within 4 months of the murder.

I know only parts of the questions in the first post and a couple in this post. Helgoth's death is constantly being discussed as a possible murder. Oliva's dna did not match so he was cleared. I did not see JBR's feet mentioned at all by anyone except Karr - ever. Just like the hair, totally...

Karr said the marks were all from the jewelry he wore (a ring) when trying to revive her, or the first device he used to strangle her, which he took with him. A lot of people post photos showing tests on a pig, that it could all be from a stun gun. I don't buy it. No need to use a stun gun if...

I am 100% sure he wrote it and is INVOLVED with the murder. That document posted here shows that Patsy's handwriting samples are nothing like the ransom note. I'm not impressed. By the way she also had no motive. I digress. But I nearly gasped a couple weeks ago when I compared the yearbook...

Cyril Wecht clipped her nails? I thought he just wrote a book about the autopsy, and was not there for it at all. If there was a butterfly clip on JBR, and I do see it in the photo, I'm fed up with yet another sham or mixup or plain sloppy reporting job. It should have been in the autopsy...

People pick and choose what to focus on, don't they? Like the pineapple bowl and the ransom note. While ignoring the hair. It's peculiar.

I like your premise of getting rid of misconceptions. I don't think all of it can be settled even with earnest debate among experts. There are still some experts who think the head blow came first. There are some who disagree whether the autopsy points to prior sexual abuse or abuse only on...

Here is something no one talks about. This is not the definition of a sham and a duvet, as any homemaker knows. We've been told a comforter was in the suitcase. Now, what was really in the suitcase and why? Has it been ruled out as having anything to do with the killer's/kidnapper's plans or...