TLM has had years of experience thinking on her feet. She's been fighting for her life (violently) for years, has been in and out of "the system", had street smarts to spare. She didn't have to plan in advance to stage this.
So, theoretically - she bludgeons Tori and decides when all is said and done that she's going to make it look like "You're in this now as far as I am" (or whatever the exact quote was). She removes Tori's lower clothing, stuffs them in a garbage bag with the hammer. Thinking on her feet. Theoretically.
Maybe she grabs a couple of bottle caps and tosses them in Tori's garbage bag. She had green tea. Maybe she never drank any water. But why bother even disposing of them? Take them with you. Your own fingerprints on bottle caps is not a crime. Those caps make my hinky meter go off big time.
If you had committed this horrendous crime, what would you do first, dispose of the body, or leave it lying there while you clean up the other evidence? I know that hiding that body would be my first priority. She was put in garbage bags, carried to her final resting place, and covered in rocks. THEN, one would go about gathering weapon, bloody clothes, cigarette butts, and bottle caps. Too late to put in Tori's garbage bags.
OR ...
Perhaps it was TLM who sexually assaulted Tori. There would still be no DNA evidence and it would explain the lack of clothing. Perhaps.
Why would she NOT want to blame him? You think a sociopath would prefer to take all the blame herself? She's not stupid enough to think that there was zero chance they'd get caught. Remember, for the first while she told LE she knew nothing about this crime. She then told them that she was an innocent dupe, doing MTR's bidding, and he is the one who raped and killed Tori. She stuck to this story for two years before changing it again. It sure doesn't sound to me like someone who'd hesitate to place blame wherever she can ... as the mood suits her.
But, that's JMO.
But again, the jury would have to assume that TLM was solely responsible for the kidnapping for some reason and they have not been given any evidence to that effect. They'd have to believe that Victoria went along with the abduction as if she was being babysat by a trusted friend. That at no point during her ride to Guelph was she ever scared or worried that she was being driven away from Woodstock by two virtual strangers. They'd have to believe that at no point, until after they had left Guelph, was Victoria ever being hidden on the floor of the backseat. Even though there are no witnesses, either BA or anyone who either drove or walked past the car on the highway, in the TH or in the HD parking lot, who ever saw Victoria in the car.
And you'd also have to believe that MR took one very long walk, very far from the scene of the crime as to not have heard or seen anything amiss. He didn't hear Victoria utter a yell or scream, he didn't hear TLM removing her clothing and possibly sexually assaulting her, kicking her, opening his trunk, removing items from a shopping bag and wielding a hammer to her.
Then you'd have to believe that he returned from his long walk to this scene and because a teenage, gangsta drug addict told him, a 28yr old adult man, that he was just as involved, he agreed to help clean up the crime scene, dispose of a child and drive back to Woodstock, never to speak of what he had seen. Even though by the next day, the entire town, the local LE and the OPP were in a panic trying to locate her.
And he kept quiet about what he knew, perpetuating the rumour that her mother had a large drug debt and that she was likely missing because of that. He converted his car to a two seater, just because, and met a new woman within 5 days of the crime and just went on with his life as if nothing happened.
And of course when he was arrested, he did absolutely nothing to tell his side of the story and clear his name of the sexual assault when he had the chance to do so by leading LE to the crime scene and Victoria's remains.
All of the above scenario defies all logic IMO.
MOO
