Good points, all. The child's room is where any innocent person would look, not where someone who KNEW where she was would look. That person would look where he knew she was. And he did.
You're right about LA allowing them to go in the room. After all, the home was swarming with people who shouldn't have been there, all of them contaminating the crime scene and destroying evidence. (like wiping down the kitchen counters) This is exactly the effect the Rs wanted.
Has anyone here ever seen the movie (or read the book) "Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil"? It's a good movie- it involves a murder, and a contaminated crime scene along with sloppy LE work. And the defendant gets acquitted, because of the sloppy police work. There is a memorable scene where the defense attorney shows a set of crime scene photos to a witness at the trial. He points out a cat wandering in and out of the blood on the floor, and a reporter walking in and out of the room as well. There were so many people there who didn't belong there that there was no way the crime scene was pristine. And there were also mistakes made in handling the body as well (I recall it was an error in bagging the hands, which is done to prevent loss of evidence on the hands and under the fingernails - and which I believe WAS done with JBR. ) This movie reminds me of the JBR case- a wealthy man goes free after committing a murder. The difference is in that case, the murderer admitted the killing but said it was in self-defense.
