Not looking to be launched into by anyone here... but is there any proof that John ever entered the house?
I didn't follow the first trial and only started taking an interest after the 2nd trial ended.
"is there any proof that John ever entered the house?" ... Two points about your question itself to speak to what you probably want to know: (1) we should make it about "house and garage" which are in the same building with entrances in similar places, but which would offer different situations once inside, and (2) as for "proof," having something like that would require that LE went inside and looked for evidence, which they did not do (so obviously it's impossible to have proof if you don't look for anything) -- but we do have quite a bit of other evidence outside that was given in the trial (much of it from cw witnesses) that pointed in that direction. Let me quote from turaj's reply and then add to it.
A car did not kill him but what did is still a mystery.
"A car did not kill him but what did is still a mystery." --- That fact is a big part of what makes us look closer at the idea he went in the house. His injuries were NOT from a vehicle - every witness agreed in one way or another that how he was injured was NOT what a person looks like when hit by a vehicle. Nor was the "supposed" damage to the tail light supported by testimony and pictures of what her car looked like before Proctor took it. Nor was the claimed damage possible by hitting an arm or any other scenario the cw could conjure (they kept changing their story). Most importantly, the FBI/Feds had hired their own investigation to figure it out, using the best experts in the business, who said no way was he hit by her vehicle, it was impossible to have happened based on the injuries he had and the damage on the car.
So if he was NOT hit, by a vehicle, then how did he die? What we do know...
1 He was going to a party, and driven there by KR.
2 She said he exited the car and went inside, and she waited a while for him to come back out but he never did. We can minimize that since it's from the defendant, of course, but that's her story.
3 Others who pulled up behind KR saw her alone in her car, no JOK in it, no JOK anywhere in sight, just like she said.
[On following items, I think I'm keeping straight which device told which, but it was confusing]
4 His phone seems to indicate he generally went towards the house when he exited the vehicle. Then at 12:24 the signal location was lost, for 12 minutes, most common reason for that is entering a building.
5 His watch data at about the same time showed that he exited the vehicle, then took 36 steps, which happens to be the approx distance from the road to the house.
6 When he was found in the morning on the lawn, he had major dog bites on his arm (testified by several who would know, contradicted by none, more evidence of it prevented by JudgeB from being given) and there was a dog with a history of attacking people inside the house -- but again, no LE cared to look inside, so we have no way of knowing what the dog and dog area might have looked like.
7 Medical testimony said his head wound would have incapacitated him almost immediately (so he didn't go anywhere and wasn't mobile on his own after it happened) and he would have died soon thereafter, but the dog wounds happened BEFORE he died (which made sense, as by appearance they would seem to have happened with him trying to defend himself and having his arm out trying to fend off a dog attack). No way that sort of stuff can happen in that sequence on the lawn.
8 There's evidence that he had loss of blood and lots of vomit, and perhaps was in a sitting position as he bled before he died, but the lawn site doesn't show any of that. The lawn also doesn't have a way for him to have sustained the irregular head wound as it was on his head (although the garage apparently does - testimony JudgeB prevented from being given and shown).
9 There was a lot of really weird, inconsistent, lies and irrational explanations, from those in the house, with activities that don't fit their story. Odd calls and actions and "butt dials." Something happened, and they are hiding a lot.
I'm sure there's even more.
But the BEST explanation of what happened, imo, in light of the fact that he was definitely NOT hit by a vehicle, and with what else we have heard (despite the LE failure to even look) is that something bad happened inside the house or garage that night, with the dog involved.
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