"So, I said to this reporter, 'why would some one commit suicide and go outside? It doesn’t make a lot of sense.'"
Who ever said this is what happened? The word "suicide" was not mentioned until she spoke to a reporter who doesn't do suicide stories. (BTW, since when don't newspapers report suicides? Wouldn't the paper at least include Hugues' death in the obituaries?)
Did Azar or the cops tell the reporter it was their theory that before he went outside he stabbed himself? Did he tell her that's what they said or did Melissa instantaneously deduce this must be what they believed? Why?
"I find it hard to believe that someone would do something to themselves, walk outside and walk back in. I don't know. It just doesn't add up," another friend of Hugues said to a news crew within one week of his death.
Think about these statements a minute. To my knowledge, no one ever determined he stabbed himself and then went outside, certainly not within days. In fact, the "suicide" theory was not “seriously” considered until Nix brought it up, says Azar. And, according to Nix, the Inspector wouldn't talk to her anyway and he had no questions for her.
To make this statement/question as though the authorities arrived at this conclusion, to offer this scenario as the cops' position, only to refute it instantaneously, presumes she knew what they thought, even though they would not communicate with her! Remember? They brushed her off. Nix counters, without the slightest pause or hesitation, that stabbing himself inside his apartment and then going outside makes no sense. Hold on a minute!
Where in the world does she get that idea? For suicide to occur, she says, he must have stabbed himself inside his apartment and then gone outside, which is irrational and cannot be accurate. Excuse me? At this point, she has observed the blood outside on the landing and steps, IMO. However, why doesn't she consider other possibilities? Maybe he stabbed himself and then went inside.
"I can't describe the pain. It was piercing to know that he was dead. That he was so young. I put on my journalist's hat and I called the police department in San Francisco to confirm that he was dead. I screamed, I screamed." This was Monday. Three friends called her Saturday. Two left messages and one called her cell (which she didn't answer.)
COULD YOU WAIT TWO DAYS TO CONFIRM THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE WAS DEAD?
This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, IMO. According to her timeline, she gets the news of this horrific, life-shattering tragedy on June 2, a Saturday. Her one true love has been found slain, left in a pool of blood, all alone. Yet, she waits two days before picking up the phone to try to confirm with the authorities that the love of her life was savagely stabbed to death. For some reason, once her worst fears are confirmed she hops on a plane immediately and returns that day to San Francisco to track down the Inspector for more information. Hold it!
This means from the moment her friends informed her on Saturday, she contained her emotions the rest of Saturday, all day Sunday and finally on Monday she attempts to reach the S.F. police to see if her nightmare is real. She doesn't even call his parents? Odd, especially given that a neighbor of Hugues who had a friend in common with another former employee where he worked, was savvy enough to realize the cops probably did not call his parents in France. Therefore, he calls a person who knew another person who worked with him and then, not knowing what to do, that individual called Melissa. The implication is she will know what to do. She will make sure his folks know what happened, given that the cops likely failed to do their duty, IMO. But, she waits for two days.
