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https://nineplanets.org/moon/phase/11-3-2023/ According to this link, the moon, though not full, was giving a substantial amount of light—if it had risen? Looks like it hadn’t. Wouldn’t mind if someone else checked that I read the charts correctly...

I wonder what her husband said about why she wasn’t around any more. Or, of course, they could have separated long before age was killed.

I think that we often see judges who are extremely concerned to protect the integrity of the court proceedings, so the trial results don’t get overturned on appeal. In practice, I think that tends to make them look as though they favor the defense, even though that’s not their motivation. All MOO

<modsnip: Quoted post was removed> I suspect that @Boxer is pointing out a little problem with the plan.

My guess is that they wanted something so weird that it’d get lots of attention in the media. The more, the better.

@katydid23 asked for: A: ritual sacrifices B: in recent memory A church bombing in the 1960s, in my opinion, satisfies neither of these criteria.

Church bombing 55+ years ago? That hardly seems relevant, or recent. MOO

Somehow, I doubt it. MOO

Wasn’t it definitely murder in the course of kidnapping? “Down the hill.”

That’s what I was visualizing, a ‘this is the last straw!’ meltdown of frustration and despair.

Right. In my opinion, the defense is not trying to get it thrown out because the sheath evidence is bad evidence. They are desperately trying to get it thrown out, because it is such good evidence. MOO

<snipped for focus> How did that word ‘always’ slip into the discussion? I believe that people have made the point, over and over, that each case is different. In this case, however, single-person DNA, on the snap of the sheath, indicates that the person did actually touch the snap of the...

Wouldn’t the two-on-one-side flats occur when you sideswiped the same road hazard with front and back tires on the same side? To me, that doesn’t sound like anything strange. (Not that I’ve done it!)

Thank you very much for your amazing discussions of genetics. By the way, ‘gallus’ in this context should be the domestic chicken. ;)

Do we know enough about the terrain yet to completely rule out the idea that the Tacoma may have simply broken down from mechanical issues, leaving the two to have to try to walk out, and that the Tacoma was later washed into an inaccessible place by floodwaters from Hurricane Hillary?

Julian has a SD County sheriff’s substation. And I feel confident that it’s simply a community within the county, not a city.

Well, finding JRF’s ID with the remains isn’t good enough, in this day and age, for an official identification. However, from a practical standpoint, it does, just as you said, rule out Mickey’s remains. I’d guess that they feel morally certain that it’s JRF, but feel no need to rush a DNA...

That’s what we tend to feel, when LE is doing its job properly. MOO

Thinking about what direction they might have gone, if they were both in Julian. This is an extreme long shot, but if she had any interest in animals, zoos, conservation, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park is a 45 minute drive from Julian, with some terrain that might be able to conceal an accident.

There are steep drop-offs on the roads leading out of Julian, whether you might be heading back to the desert, or heading toward the coast. That’s been my tentative theory. And as people have pointed out, the underside of a vehicle is a very neutral color, and if the vehicle is almost buried in...