But after 2 or 3 blows to the head it would be obvious that 15 were not needed.
Maybe many of them were to a different part of her body. He was determined to inflict maximum damage... not quickly.
Once at our HS baseball game a batgirl (picks up bats after batter hits) was hit in the mouth by the on-deck hitter (next hitter in order) standing off to the side. Knocked like 4 or 5 of her front teeth. It was accidental, not at maximum strength, and devastating all at once. Think what a grown man could do to a head using maximum strength... horrible.
You’d be surprised. Sometimes a person can die just hitting their head with a minor fall. Sometimes they can be beaten repeatedly in the head with major force and it takes a while. It depends on angle, etc.
Someone posted an example here of a woman who survived after being beaten with a bat or hammer (I can’t recall) and suffering her head being crushed, jaw bashed in, disfiguring injuries, eye socket broken and displaced, etc.
She was beaten repeatedly.
By the mention of blood everywhere I have always suspected Kelsey was trying to get away as he beat her to death.
But I also thought the state expert in the Jodi Arias trial got it wrong. I think she shot him in the head in the shower with a 22 and it didn’t kill him. So he staggered out and she began stabbing him. Still didn’t kill him so he crawled down the hallway and she slit his throat.
People who hunt know a 22 to the head doesn’t always kill a deer that quickly or even at all sometimes.
Neither do blows with heavy objects. Often but not always.
I think Kelsey struggled to get away and kept trying to crawl as he beat her like a rat he was trying to kill. Based on comments he made to KK even he seemed surprised it was as hard to kill her that way as it was.
Her comment “Please stop” is similar to other comments I’ve heard that people suddenly attacked and dying make. “Oh, oh, oh.” “Why?” “No!” “Hey! Hey!” “What are you doing?” “Don’t” “Help me.” “Call 911” “I love you.”
I think the first blow hurt badly and gave her a serious head injury but it took a while to kill her and she tried to save herself.
It’s appalling.