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It is the first episode description - Killer Fantasy
It is the first episode description - Killer Fantasy
I checked with 3 Spanish woodcarver artisans here in Santa Fe (area). SF is about 6 1/2 hours from Westminster, Co.
Their opinion (not mine)
hand made
off set is not unique
looked like it had been in water
electric saw used to cut top, bottom and sides (chipped where saw cut)
hole drilled with an electric drill
hole in the wrong place for a necklace - would tip forward
hole too new looking to have been worn with leather/chain
"thought" it might have been used as a pocket cross
thickness threw them off for a necklace too - way too thick
3 lines - they had no clue - too crudely made
zig zag on back - best guess (since I told them it "could" be connected to a murder) was it's the old symbol for fear. Just a guess though since too crudely made.
Left Westminster LE email and phone # with them and asked them to check around with others.
It doesn't appear to say. Just that it's related.
Totally could be bought at a fair, etc. It is just that many who do craft fairs also list on Etsy.
I don't think religion has anything to do with the cross. We might be putting too much emphasis on the cross representing Christian faith rather than a fashionable item or gang related, imo. Or he/she could have left it there to throw off LE and the public.
IMO, the perp is not a priest.
It does say. Note the last part and the use of the word killer.
I didn't know Jessica's family was Catholic. But I didn't watch the memorial.
I don't think religion has anything to do with the cross. We might be putting too much emphasis on the cross representing Christian faith rather than a fashionable item or gang related, imo. Or he/she could have left it there to throw off LE and the public.
IMO, the perp is not a priest.
My first thought was that LE should be checking places which cater to hippier bohemian types - there are head shops and hippie-ish jewelry stores all over Boulder and Denver. I wouldn't be surprised if the cross came from one of those. Most of those places sell handmade jewelry, I knew a few people who made jewelry and sold it to those type of shops when I lived in Denver/Boulder.I too had the same thought........a religious older man would probably wear a gold cross on a gold chain...
These type of crosses are popular with younger hippier, bohemian types and worn with a black leather flat string.....I actually have a wooden cross like this that had one of the flat leather shoelace ties. They are probably more popular with girls, so maybe he took it from a girlfriends, sisters collection or similar.
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I agree completely. People who are very religious, only kinda religious, or not religious at all wear crosses or things with crosses on them.
In re-examining this photo, I'm now asking myself the following:
When was this photo taken?
If it was taken just as the crime scene was found, and investigation began, they wouldn't have had the firetruck there yet - so the markers could still be from the WM truck. I don't think they required the firetruck til later as it was there for light. I'm thinking its early on as the tarp that showed up in later photos over the culvert isn't pictured here yet.
either that, or this was when the crime scene was wrapping up? Can we get a date on this photo somehow?
That might solve the issue of whether the orange marks are for the WM truck's original position, or the firetruck?
Right. LE is trying to connect the two cases through the cross. It could be the first victim lost a cross and this cross was with Jessica.
Still, crosses are a Christian symbol, be it positive or negative.