UK UK- Janet Brown, 51, research nurse, found nude, gagged, handcuffed & bludgeoned to death, @ home, Buckinghamshire,10 April '95, *DNA, new initiative*

[tes1984]

IMO, if they weren't lying in a prominent position such as the hall table, where the husband would have seen them the last time he was there, how would a home invader know about them, look for them, or find them?

I find it a strange comment by the husband. Was he suggesting his wife got out the handcuffs to play master/slave with someone, when he wasn't home?

I was wondering if the handcuffs were in Janet's jewellery box or in a drawer of her dressing table. The killer makes Janet put on jewellery so perhaps he spots the handcuffs?

It is a very strange comment though. Why didn't he ask about them when he first saw them years earlier?

The master/slave scenario is very interesting. Handcuffs weren't unusual amongst consenting couples, but the husband doesn't know why they might have been there.

 

[Cedars]

I was wondering if the handcuffs were in Janet's jewellery box or in a drawer of her dressing table. The killer makes Janet put on jewellery so perhaps he spots the handcuffs?

It is a very strange comment though. Why didn't he ask about them when he first saw them years earlier?

The master/slave scenario is very interesting. Handcuffs weren't unusual amongst consenting couples, but the husband doesn't know why they might have been there.

Yes, however I personally can't imagine a 50 year old woman keeping a random, useless pair of handcuffs with her jewelry or underwear. Any more than she'd keep duct tape, an old hammer or a knife...You want to have pretty things in the places where you keep your pretty things. And your female children will definitely go look through your jewelry box, normally with your permission.

I interpreted the husband's comment as indicating that once upon a time they used the handcuffs as a couple. Why else would anyone own them? To tie up burglars you've captured - or discipline the children when they were younger? (irony).

 

[Rush4087]

I too find the husband's comment(s) about the handcuffs strange. Is there an exact quote of what he said somewhere?