Brendan admitted helping clean up a stain he said " could have " been blood but thought LOOKED LIKE fluid from a car. ( read from the pages you provided here. ) Furthermore, it took all but 15 minutes to throw down some old clothes that " didn't fit any more " and wipe the floor " with their feet " before tossing the rags into the fire with their fingers.
No disrespect intended..however WHAT part of this is SO DAMNING to him? Throw in also the " open ended questions " B.S. and I just don't get it?
Don't worry, no disrespect taken.
Now, looked at on its own? There is nothing damning about this at all. Just two people, cleaning up a stain that one of them has no idea what it is, nor why it is so important, that it must be cleaned up on a Monday evening.
Now it is my turn to caveat what I am about to type, with the hope you do not take this the wrong way.
On its own? Cleaning a stain in the garage is nothing. However, add a few coincidences & 'memory lapses' and it should give any inquisitive mind, cause for concern. Avery's garage was like the junk yard and his trailer, a real mess. Debris lay all around and its lack of cleanliness was in keeping with its surroundings.
Avery & Dassey decide to clean a 3 ft by 3ft stain on the floor of this garage, on the same day that Teresa is last seen alive. They also decide to have a bonfire at the same time. Coincidence? Possibly, but not as much as a coincidence as them both 'forgetting' to tell LE during the initial interviews on the 5th & 6th of November. One of them forgetting? Maybe. Both of them????
It does not end there.
You would think, that if you had a fire and forgot about it, a policeman asking you when was the last time you actually had a fire, might make you think a little more. Given the last fire you had was with your Nephew, and you both drove around your property in a Golf Buggy collecting material for it, including a car seat, branches, tyres & a cabinet, that it might jog your memory. Here, I am going to use the word kindly and say it was just a coincidence that Avery forgot about this.
The night of the fire though, is not just a random night though. By sheer coincidence, the night of the fire is Halloween. Quite a memorable evening by all accounts and one that Dassey might remember as he recalled his Brother going Trick or Treating. Coincidentally, Dassey's Mother was away for most of the early evening, visiting her Boyfriends Mother in hospital. However both she and her Boyfriend, did recall the bonfire, which is another (albeit unfortunate) coincidence.
Now another memory lapse. Avery was asked what he was wearing that night, during those first interviews on the 5th & 6th of November. He says he could not remember. Fair enough. He has only been asked about that night a couple of times in TV interviews & a call from LE in the last couple of days. He forgot. Sure. No problem. By sheer coincidence, he has some clothes in the boot/ trunk of his car. However, his memory actually stands him in good stead here, because when asked if he was wearing any of those on Halloween less than a week ago, he is adamant that they were not the ones.
Now, this is where memory lapse works in a mysterious way. He can't remember what he was wearing, but he can remember what he wasn't, if you catch my drift. This by the way, is the night he had a bonfire with his nephew, who remembered changing out of the clothes he wore to school, put some clean jeans on out of his drawer, but then changed out of them again later in the evening, despite saying they were not covered in any of the substance he was helping to clean. (He did get bleach on them, but as you will know, bleach only shows itself after a wash.)
Back to the coincidences (which might make a policeman a little suspicious.) The same night, that two people coincidentally have a bonfire but don't tell LE, two separate people (Radant & Fabian) see the fire. One of whom, tells LE before the car was found. Speaking of coincidences, the car that was found, belonged to the girl Avery told police in early November, had been to his property several times. Memory lapse alert: During those interviews he could only vaguely describe her. (When asked what she looked like, he said 'Kinda Skinny.... Like my Sister' and her hair was 'Darker and kinda shorter.' )Coincidentally, he had been asked about her by a TV crew days earlier, and her picture was plastered all over the TV for the previous 48 hours since she had been reported missing. (Ask Barb, she called home & told Dassey to put the TV on.) I don't know wether that is both a coincidence she was on the TV and /or bad memory that he couldn't remember the detail.
Coincidentally, the two other appointments Teresa had that day, could recall she wore a white shirt, blues jeans and a waist length dark jacket. Stephen Schmitz & JoEllen Zipperer, both gave statements describing what Teresa wore that day. Avery is the only only out of the three that cannot remember.
Back to the fire. Coincidentally, there was a burn barrel next to the site of the bonfire. This also was in use on Halloween, and by some coincidence, some personal possessions of the missing Woman, were found in that barrel. You have guessed it, Avery forgets about using this and says that stuff was planted in that and the pit. The last thing he forgets for now? His mad chained up Dog that would not let investigators near the fire pit. Avery coincidentally forgot that the person he claims planted evidence, would have had the same issue with his dog.
I could go on. The biggest frustration I have in this case is that many people look at evidence in isolation. Not to accuse you of it Dexter, but a Jury in each trial had many things to consider. Not least, the amount of coincidences and early Amnesia of the two protagonists.
Cleaning the garage floor? No problem. Cleaning it the same night as a girl goes missing and is murdered, whilst 'forgetting' major events that evening?? A fishy as a Salmon having been eaten by a Tuna in a Sardine factory......
