No, you really shouldn't assume such things, it's just I wouldn't call myself an 'expert'. Yes, kids are frustrating, but this doesn't answer my question to SD, which was, where did you get this information and is it really accurate?
As I said, from the journal "Pediatrics" and from the Child Abuse Prevention Center. Now, specifically, ST said in his deposition that the main proponent of the toilet rage murder scenario, was Richard Krugman, Dean of the University of Colorado Medical School. Take a look here:
[ame="http://www.forumsforjustice.org/forums/showthread.php?t=5858"]The Bonita Papers - Forums For Justice[/ame] about 7/8s down the page.
If it is as you say (not that I believe it), anyone familiar with the household would have know this.
That's true. The questions in my mind are: to what purpose? If it was a kidnapping for ransom, and it went wrong and JB ended up with a fractured skull, then why bother doing all of that stuff to her?
If the panties were unwrapped in the basement, anyone could have seen and used them.
If, yes. But were they in the basement? Wouldn't it make more sense to keep them in JB's room? That's the impression I always got: that they were found in an open pack in one of JB's dresser drawers. So, that raises some questions: did the person go back up after them? And if so, what for? And if they took them with JB down the stairs, why just that one pair?
Yes, that old flashlight again. If it was PR she would have just turned on the lights in her own home. Somewhat less suspicious than walking around in the dark holding a flashlight. Are you suggesting she wrote the RN by the light of the flashlight?
My questions are: was the flashlight even used? Moreover, being seen using a flashlight would only be more suspicious if someone were to actually see the beal of light moving around in the house. Whereas, turning on the lights would have been more noticable. As for what DD is suggesting, I'd have to wait for her response, just like you.
Well, not that I actually believe that it was used, but RDI does - the Swiss Army Knife. Didn't you contend that the tape was in the drawer upstairs (kitchen?) Wouldn't she have needed to go upstairs to get the flashlight? She was carrying an unconscious JBR (presumably wrapped in a blanket) to the basement, so wouldn't really have been able to open doors and carry all that stuff with her in one trip.
This is the pitfall of taking up Fang's challenge, since these questions were addressed to DD and she's the only one who knows the answers. So, I'll have to give it my best shot.
Didn't you contend that the tape was in the drawer upstairs (kitchen?)
I don't know about that. Speaking from experience, I keep mine on a peg over my dad's old workbench. That's where he kept his, so I figured if it ain't broke. But people do keep them in drawers, on top of cabinets, etc. It could have been upstairs. It might not have been.
Wouldn't she have needed to go upstairs to get the flashlight?
Possibly. Unless it was already in her pocket. I have a flashlight in the house, and that's a common place for it when I'm not using it but might have to take it out.
She was carrying an unconscious JBR (presumably wrapped in a blanket) to the basement, so wouldn't really have been able to open doors and carry all that stuff with her in one trip.
Hmm. I don't know about JB being wrapped in the blanket when she was taken down to the basement. My impression is that it was taken out down there and she was wrapped in it then. But you make a good point about not being able to carry all of that stuff in one trip, provided some of it wasn't already there. And it's possible that there were trips up and down, or a single trip, anyway. As for not being able to open a door, I'd say it's likely that all of the doors above the basement floor were already open. But there is evidence that JB was set down at one point in the basement (her urine on the floor just outside the room), so that might be the answer to that one.
