Recent content by s. simon

Starry, sorry. Click page 1. That will get you there.

Starry, If you want to know what really happened, you have to go back to May 8,2014. It only takes a few clicks. First, go back to the beginning of this thread series (click "Prev"). Above all of the previous threads of this format you will see the beginning thread in a different format at the...

Starry, I appreciate your reply. To my knowledge, the final coroner's report on this case said neither the murder nor the beheading took place in the garage. Sheriff Sills searched Putnam County thoroughly for the scene of the murder, but could not find it. A simple explanation would be that it...

You are correct up to a point, and then you get it wrong. Just as the ring size of a fat finger must be larger than for that same finger when it was smaller, the roughly half circle resulting from printing the fat finger has a larger half circumference and will produce a wider print on flat...

I know one thing that solves this case, but it is way outside the box. What if the male victim of this case was misidentified ? No member of the family ever saw the body to my knowledge. The identification was based on fingerprints and two distinguishing body marks. Now I think the...

Yes, and they used none of these with the exception of 70 year old fingerprints. Why ??

Vedder, I don't know the answer to this. I probably should have pointed out that the flat spot was at the tip of his little finger (I think on the opposite side from the nail). If this spot was flattened in a vise after death I just don't know how obvious it would be. I don't think any bones...

I have been reading and thinking about this case for years. Over that time I have become fond of both Dermonds as well as their relationship with each other. I have thought of a possible solution to the case which follows, but both my heart and soul completely reject this solution. Russell...

That's what he observed. I agree with you that most beheadings involve rage, where the head is hacked off. This one did not. Could not that fact be this case's equivalent of the dog that did not bark in the night time ?

I don't see rage. SS said : "For instance, the clinical way in which Russell Dermond was beheaded would seemingly indicate the work of a professional. But the haphazard way in which his wife’s body was disposed of, weighed down by a pair of 30-pound concrete blocks, doesn’t point...

colette, I think a pro would not have used an identifiable weapon; an amateur would have probably been caught by now.

Taking the head as proof also makes little sense, given the media attention to a murder in this neighborhood would bring. Proof is trivial under these conditions. I think cutting off the head was done to confuse identification of the male body.