Hi LilyMacBloom :seeya: ... As I understand the situation,
we all have the luxury, here, of speculating from behind our screen names, signing in, signing out, and walking away from our computers - back to our "real" lives. It seems PK was upset when our sleuthing began to have an impact on his real life, and expressed this in a way that prompted the pulling of the threads for review. I don't have the specifics, because those, of course, vanished with Threads 4, 5, and 6. It doesn't take a genius, however, to understand the cautionary tone of the first post on this thread.
IMO, PK was generous enough to actually appear here and endeavour to answer questions as best he could, only to find that if anything, it intensified suspicions about him personally and in relation to Audrey's murder. We've parsed every answer and cross-compared each detail to the brink of ridiculousness - again MOO - and so I for one "get it" if PK has retreated to lurking as a guest, or perhaps fled this altogether and tried to get on with his life.
My view is an unpopular one here: that PK, while a POI among others, was indeed a close and treasured friend of Audrey's, a young man who is exceptional enough to be studying toward a doctoral degree in the sciences. He had the
extreme misfortune of being the one to discover a nightmarish scene, the kind I think would, if it were I that discovered an elderly friend deceased in such a manner, would be traumatizing for a lifetime. PK has borne the justifiable scrutiny of LE and repeated inquiry. Apparently, the evidence is not strong enough to take him into custody. He has, it seems to me, done his best to not go off the rails and go on living his life. None of us can know what he has been through.
However, there appears to be a spirit here of, "For lack of anyone more obvious as a POI, we'll proceed with trial by WS." Which is why we've exhaustively analyzed doors and benches and cakes and garage-door entry codes. I have been surprised that this thread has thus far not gone the way of the others, and will guess that is partly why we have not seen anymore from PK.
Apologies for this rant, which is coming from a place of feeling totally fed up with "the cake, the cake, the cake," and what the H its relevance is to the murder. So, I'll be taking a vacation from this thread myself,:doorhide: with hopes that an eventual arrest will be made, some of us perhaps proven correct, some of us proven to be inaccurate, and justice claimed for Audrey - which is the most important achievement here. :silenced:
Peace out.

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