Couple of notes as I'm doing more research, got hold of more CS photos than I've been able to get in the past.
There's talk of Suzie going out back through the slider to smoke. If they found cigarettes on the Coke can inside, I don't think she needed to go outside. And there's talk of how some guy brought Cinnamon back to the house that night around the critical time in the course of that evening's events. I don't think this is necessarily the case that the guy brought Cinnamon back to the house, Based on what I saw, the guy didn't even know this was Sherrill's dog, he more removed the dog from his own yard rather than actually placing the dog in Sherrill's yard. There are
a lot of conflicting reports when it comes to Cinnamon that night, from what I can see.
The broken globe. Have a good image now so I can picture exactly where it is. Is it this one here on the wall? Or is the one on the pole? I'm just going to assume the wall for now, but a lot of this discussion-- it won't matter all that much which one it was. Assumng for now the one on the wall.
Hinge on the storm door is such that this door's going to swing towards the living room, door itself didn't break the globe on a swing. Light's to the side, not overhead. I think that broken globe actually does mean something have been back and forth with it, some people wondering if it's a red herring, Don't think so because the positioning of it makes it so it wouldn't be all that easy to break it. But don't think breaking glass to get in the front door was the ruse. Suppose he's flattened himself against the wall by globe/mailbox waiting for the door to open... firstly, it may not open, the actual bulb's not broken, and Sherrill may just turn the light on, take a good look out there, maybe start looking out other windows, he's in full view if he's on that porch in the light. She might spot him, immediately call the police. But say he knows the window is open in Sherrill's room-- or some room-- and it's only going to be a matter of removing the screen. Removal of a screen is potentially going to be pretty quick and easy if he's famliar with the process and if it leaves marks, it's going to be very difficult later to ascertain whether that screen was "tampered with" or not. Depending on the screen, they pop right off in seconds. People often need to pop them off, intruders aren't usually the ones who have a desire to pop them, so how's anyone going to know he did that if he replaces it?
LE had that screen off Sherrill's window only, why? Dusting for prints, good, but why just that one screen? If they don't think anyone came in through the window, why have this one screen specifically off dusting for prints? Did they remove all the other screens in the house to dust for prints? Are they checking it to see if someone popped it off and/or left prints? Because if he did pop a screen off, 100% believe he replaced it before he left. Some sources saying AC was left on in the house when people started showing up,, front door was left unlocked, porch light left on.. Front door is the door jmo he wouldn't have wanted to enter through jmo and I don't think it was originally open. AC won't give enough ventilation after varnishing, I am really wondering if that window was open (this becomes incredibly scary if that window I see in the carport's open, looking at the maps and such, is this window into Suzie's room?), and he drew Sherrill to the living room door with the breaking of glass. By doing so, he would be able to 1) see how light a sleeper she was, and then he could 2) potentially move to the open window, pop the screen, and walk right in there. I don't see how they'd ever know that screen was "tampered with" if he replaced it.
"Staging."
