Brooke Bennett, 12 yrs. old Randolph, VT #11

[evelyn24]

But he knew MJ was a RSO, if we expect Cassandra to call 911 immediately because she was last with MJ, why wouldnt the same be expected of Jim?

I'm not sure Jim Bennett was called before the LE was called.
Was he??

 

[SeriouslySearching]

Since they couldn't ID her by dental records I am thinking it is possible he poured acid over the body after he placed it in the grave. Acid would eat away the teeth and alot of the evidence...and provide quick decomp.

It is possible she didn't have current dental records. However, as sick as he is and as well planned as this was...you can't tell what he would do to her body.

 

[DeltaDawn]

I think if they had found a tape prior to finding her body he would have been charged then and there with murder and rape.

I think that since finding the body they have found the evidence of the tape or the tape itself. Meaning they now either have the harddrive to his computer or Kevin in Texas has produced the laptop....there is still alot we don't know for certain.

 

[Medea]

Since they couldn't ID her by dental records I am thinking it is possible he poured acid over the body after he placed it in the grave. Acid would eat away the teeth and alot of the evidence...and provide quick decomp.

Not sure we know for sure they couldn't ID her via dental records, this was something a commentator speculated on...but i was wondering the same thing about pouring some kind of chemical on her.

Maybe that is part of the reason also that the Feds are charging him...kidnapping leading to death is still a DP charge and they won't need a COD or to prove rape. Her body might have been too far gone for any of that...

 

[Medea]

I think that since finding the body they have found the evidence of the tape or the tape itself. Meaning they now either have the harddrive to his computer or Kevin in Texas has produced the laptop....there is still alot we don't know for certain.

Nobody has said anything about filming, all we know is that there are stills of AR and her boyfriend. I don't doubt that Jacques probably did film himself and AR, but at this point, a tape of Brooke's death seems too far fetched to me.

I think they will find Gagnon's safe and laptop...assuming Kevin G. is telling the truth about just having put it in a dumpster...not sure about Jacques harddrive unless he burried it in the woods or something.

 

[Carrington]

"I actually viewed her yesterday and it's just.... I felt her. I felt that she was still with me. It's been awful," says Cassandra Gagnon, Brooke's mother.

http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=8623432

 

[DeltaDawn]

I think he and Gagnon and AR are just still in shock that they were even caught at this point..they really didn't think Cassandra would be on this as soon as she was and I believe they thought the most that would happen everyone would be searching for Brooke with some boy she met on the internet. I am sure he had schooled AR in just what to say about this boy, the party planned, Brooke taking off on this wild ride and affair with this person, you can only imagine what he had planned to say........it just makes me sick. This is one case I have to take in very small doses. I need to just walk away from the computer for awhile and then I keep coming back.

 

[SuziQ]

IIRC, Cassandra said she viewed her (Brooke). I'm wondering how that was possible. Even under the best of circumstances, at this time of year and almost a week, her body could not be in that good of shape.

 

[evelyn24]

Oh, good point! I never thought of him taking a photo of the burial site or filming there. Could be right. We just know it was something found at the house that led them to her and that would make sense.

Yes, that's right!! LE came out at the presser and said something at MJ's house lead them to Brooke. Whatever it was they found lead them right to her.

 

[Cornflower]

I´m sorry if there has been a discussion about this earlier, but I´ve been thinking about where he/they actually killed Brooke. IMO it sounds very strange that they would kill her at their home where anyone could just walk in? They had relatives and friends nearby, Denise could have come home earlier etc. How did they know that they could torture and kill Brooke without any interruptions? I also believe that MJ planned to hurt Brooke not just for a day but as long as he could. Did AR tell the truth about MJ and Brooke getting upstairs? What if Brooke was never taken back to the house but they drove somewhere else?

 

[DeltaDawn]

IIRC, Cassandra said she viewed her (Brooke). I'm wondering how that was possible. Even under the best of circumstances, at this time of year and almost a week, her body could not be in that good of shape.

I thought that was weird too SuzyQ..but I think Cassandra doesn't always phrase things the way other people do. I doubt that she physically viewed the body..if decomp was that bad they wouldn't have let her.. Usually if someone is brutally bludgeoned, decomp, or decapitated they don't let family view the individual. Maybe her body was there and mostly covered and she only saw a hand or a foot.

I guess we will know if they are able to hold an open casket funeral that she wasn't as decomposed as has been noted.

 

[Carrington]

I do not think she was killed right away.

 

[SuziQ]

Did AR tell the truth about MJ and Brooke getting upstairs? What if Brooke was never taken back to the house but they drove somewhere else?

That makes alot of sense.

 

[evelyn24]

I´m sorry if there has been a discussion about this earlier, but I´ve been thinking about where he/they actually killed Brooke. IMO it sounds very strange that they would kill her at their home where anyone could just walk in? They had relatives and friends nearby, Denise could have come home earlier etc. How did they know that they could torture and kill Brooke without any interruptions? I also believe that MJ planned to hurt Brooke not just for a day but as long as he could. Did AR tell the truth about MJ and Brooke getting upstairs? What if Brooke was never taken back to the house but they drove somewhere else?

I doubt AR told the truth about Brooke being taken back to her home and going upstairs with MJ. I bet the equipment was set up somewhere else, and that's where they took her.
I don't think they took her back to the house, then transported her to another location.

 

[SeriouslySearching]

What if upstairs meant the attic instead of the second story? I noticed there is a space over the garages. There he would not be as apt to worry about Denise or Savanna coming home.

Also, I noted on several of the photos of MJ's house that a screen from one of the upstairs windows was laying on the porch roof. Anyone else notice that? Could Brooke have tried to get out a window at one point?

 

[Medea]

I doubt AR told the truth about Brooke being taken back to her home and going upstairs with MJ. I bet the equipment was set up somewhere else, and that's where they took her.
I don't think they took her back to the house, then transported her to another location.

I don't think AR is smart enough to improvise, once the story Jacques gave her fell apart, she did what the typical not too smart criminal does...she tells the truth but leaves the end out.

I'm sure LE have talked to her boyfriend and his family to determine what he said, what his movements were, etc. and what he says happened. He could have been part of the attack as well, but it seems like he was just a dupe for AR and Jacques.

I disagree that Brooke was not taken to his house. I think she was taken to the house, she was taken upstairs and then, maybe she was moved but I tend to think that his house is his comfort zone....this is where all the planning and plotting and emailing came from.

Plus, who cares if Denise came home?! What's she going to do? Look the other way and start dinner.

 

[Cornflower]

What if upstairs meant the attic instead of the second story? I noticed there is a space over the garages. There he would not be as apt to worry about Denise or Savanna coming home.

That´s possible. It would have been perfect for him to have Brooke there to be tortured and he could easily switch from his "normal" life to live his sick fantasy just by going to the attic.

 

[SeriouslySearching]

And the evidence would be out of view of others in the house. I doubt that Denise or Savanna ever went into the attic area much.

 

[vickycopsy]

In an earlier thread someone on here mentioned "snuff" film. Forgive me for being so ignorant of porn terminology, but what exactly is a "snuff" film?

Thanks..
Vic

 

[SeriouslySearching]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_movie

In 2000, an Italian police operation broke up a gang of child pornographers based in Russia who, it was claimed, were also offering snuff films for sale to their clients in Italy, Germany, America and Britain. It is unclear whether anything other than child pornography films were ever seized.[12]

(Bolded by me)