Yeah, no....I am pretty open to scenarios or possibilities and change my mind occasionally. Just sometimes I get a Eureka moment and eliminate certain options because I know those for a fact don't make sense once I revisit and look at things logically....
But I haven't settled yet on the exact reason for the size 12s; talking it out on here and getting other perspectives is what we're doing right?
Undoing is a possibility if you have remorse, yes. And some elements of the way she was found do look like undoing. But you have a good point, because if it was just undoing, she could have been put in clean undies her own size. Whereas that out of place size seems to indicate staging.
Interesting to note:
From Forensic Pathology Review, Volume 4 by Michael Tsokos -
http://books.google.com/books?id=XYdeDw7HVmYC&pg=PA202&lpg=PA202&dq=undoing+versus+staging+in+a+crime&source=bl&ots=WEs1FusLwe&sig=0R-MvS-99OGchoHDvFHt-nAJe8I&hl=en&ei=jQyGTufmGcuJsALu9rmwDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
....."Undoing behavior should be differentiated from acts of staging or posing.
Staging is defined as the purposeful alteration of the crime scene to make it appear to be something it is not.
Posing means the positioning of a victim's body - usually in a degrading position - for the offender's own pleasure or to shock the finder of the body.
.....the four cases demonstrated here confirm the hypothesis of preceding deep emotional relations between victim and offender leading to undoing behavior: exclusively the female partner or ex-partner was killed in the cases presented here....
...However, the differential diagnosis of deception factors and false tracks should not be disregarded. One single behavior should never be interpreted outside its context, because the same behavior may be part of an offender's modus operandi for the purpose of destroying trace evidence, whereas in another case it can be a form of undoing behavior. Therefore, a behavior's meaning to the offender can only be interpreted when regarded in its context.
And check this:
http://books.google.com/books?id=XYdeDw7HVmYC&pg=PA202&lpg=PA202&dq=undoing+versus+staging+in+a+crime&source=bl&ots=WEs1FusLwe&sig=0R-MvS-99OGchoHDvFHt-nAJe8I&hl=en&ei=jQyGTufmGcuJsALu9rmwDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
....."Staging is when someone purposely alters the crime scene prior to the arrival of police. there are two reasons why someone employs staging, to redirect the investigation away from the most logical suspect or to protect the victim's or victim's family. The second reason for staging is to protect the victim's family and is employed most frequently with rape-murder crimes or auerotic fatalities. The offender of a sexual homicide frequently leaves the victim in a degrading position.
This type of staging is also prevalent with autoerotic fatalities. The victim may be removed from the apparatus that caused death.
Finally, the investigator should discern whether a crime scene is truly disorganized or whether the offender staged it to appear careless and haphazard. This determination not only helps direct the analysis to the underlying motive but also helps to shape the offender profile. However, the recognition of staging especially with a shrewd offender can be difficult. The investigator must scrutinize all factors of the crime if there is reason to believe it has been staged. Forensics, Victimology and minute crime scene details become critical to the detection of staging.
...Staging Red Flags
An offender who stages a crime scene usually makes mistakes because he stages it to look the way he thinks a crime scene should look. While doing this, the offender experiences a great deal of stress and dont not have time to fit all the pieces together logically. Inconsistencies will begin appearing at the crime scene with forensics and with the overall picture of the offense.
These contradictions will often serve as the red flags of staging and prevent misguidance of the investigation.
The crime scene often will contain these red flags in the form of crime scene inconsistencies.
Another red flag apparent with many staged domestic murders is the fatal assault of the wife and/or children by an intruder while the husband escapes without injury or with a nonfatal injury. If the offender does not first target or if that person suffers the least amount of injury, the police investigator should especially examine all other crime scene indicators. In addition, the investigator should scrutinize forensics and Victimology with particular attention.
Forensic results that do not fit the crime should cause the investigator to think about staging. The presence of a personal type assault utilizing a weapon of opportunity when the initial motive for the offense appears to be for material gain should raise suspicion. This type of assault also includes manual or ligature strangulation, facial beating and excessive trauma beyond that necessary to cause death (over kill) sexual and domestic homicides will demonstrate forensic findings of this type:
a close range, personalized assault
The victim is the primary focus of the offender.
This type of offender often will attempt to stage a sexual or domestic homicide to appear motivated by criminal enterprise.
This does not imply that personal-type assaults never happen during the commission of a property crime, but usually the criminal enterprise offender prefers a quick clean kill that reduces his time at the scene. Any forensic red flags after careful analysis should be placed in context with Victimology and crime scene information.
Investigators often will find forensic discrepancies when a subject stages a rape/murder. The offender frequently positions the victim to infer sexual assault has occurred. an offender who has a close relationship with the victim will often only partially remove the victims clothing. He rarely leaves the victim nude. Autopsy demonstrates a lack of sexual assault. With a staged sexual assault, there is usually no evidence of any sexual activity and an absence of seminal fluids in the body orifice".
And here's a real irony - the source for the above: Crime Classification Manual By John E Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess and Robert K Ressler Lexington Books 1992.
HA!