Wow WF, you've really run with this LHP thing haven't you? I've been trying to get someone (anyone) to take this seriously most of the time I've been on this forum, but I just get fobbed off with the 'she was investigated and cleared' or she wasn't 'smart' enough. There are a couple of things about what you have said that I'd like to comment on.
She'd just gotten a $300 gift 2 months earlier
I think you'll find that this was the previous year not the October of '96.
I find it strangely disquieting that LHP asked for a $2000 loan on Dec. 24 because she had a fight with her sister. That's alot of money. That's a weird time, the day before Christmas.
Now you mention it..... You've got to wonder if she was waiting for PR to give her another "Christmas Bonus" and when it wasn't forthcoming, she out and out asked her for the dough.
She had no other sources who could loan her $2000? She knew the Rs were headed out of town in 2 days. She discovered just 1 day before Christmas that she needed that much money? For what? Was her "fight" confirmed? Pat would be returning soon. Was she desperate?
Maybe she overspent on Christmas presents, expecting another bonus? But you make a good point about the 'reason' being investigated. Do you REALLY think the BPD would have looked into it? Nah, they were too busy working out how to lynch the Rs. Anyway, it'd be simple to word up her sister to back her up after JBR's killing.
How would you feel calling your employer/ friend? Christmas eve day to ask for a loan of two thousand dollars? Doesn't sit well with me. Doesn't have the ring of truth to it, to me. Frankly, I would struggle to ask my best friend for a 2 grand loan, anytime.
You'd probably be surprised how often this happens. Most people call it "an advance on my wages" rather than a loan. What you say is right though, the fact that she had the affront to ask PR for it speaks volumes I think, especially as at $50 per week repayment it would take her the best part of a year to repay it as it was a little under 25% of her weekly wage.
She could slip in and out of the kitchen pretty quickly. I expect she had a pretty good idea whether the Rs would be able to hear her.
Again, Pat said she would leave it for her on the 26th. LHP knew they planned to leave early that morning. She knew the house, had a key, knew where the money was supposed to be placed, knew where the "room" was,
Yes to all the above.
knew what the cord looked like and where it was
No, I'll stop you here. The cord wasn't sourced to the house. The only way LHP would have known about it is if she was the one to buy it and remember, the killer took it with him.
knew where she herself put the Swiss army knife, (Kind of inappropriate for her to hide it, I think. It wasn't hers, after all.) And, would you then tell your boss, his mother, that you had confiscated the child's knife when the mother herself decided against taking it away? Whether right or wrong, he is not your child. Plus, taking it away implies to the mom that she didn't agree with her mothering style, at least in this case.
Again, I'd be surprised if the swiss army knife was actually BR's. His had his name on it and unless I'm mistaken, this is not the one found in the basement. You are right about her confiscating it. She was, afterall, just the cleaning lady, not the nanny as far as I understand, so disciplining the kids would have been WAY outside her provence. Not only that, it was only LHP that saw all the whittling, PR said she had only once seen some bits of whittled wood. What's the bet LHP 'confiscated' it to her own home?
She admits finding Pat, just recently, extremely upset because J accused her of being a lousy housekeeper and cook. Also, she referred to Joni as a brat and mentions how Joni told her to get lost a couple times, "I'll get the door, not you." or something like that.
Yep, all that I agree with. She didn't seem to like them very much really and disagreed with how JBR was raised and the pagents. She thought herself better than them to a degree.
The allegations she put in writing about Pat's personal life in the first chapter of the book that won't get published, or so it seems, are filthy and utterly disgusting. Tells me something ain't right, at all.
Absolutely - and has no ring of truth to it at all, sounds like a fertile and rather sexually explicit imagination. Makes my skin crawl to think she may have been left in charge of those children at any time at all, especially with that creepy husband around.
Is it too late to polygraph her SD? Is it out of the question?
Why are you addressing this question to SD? Is he a Cop?
