Let me add that we have a sort of corroborating info to the FBI records.
Going back 6 years, in the discussions in the first few months after the murder, there was a lot of speculation about how MB was killed. We wondered if she had been shot. In the 1st PC, a media member asked "Did you say she had been shot?" - answer was "I did not say that" - it sounded like the media member had heard something, and LE had danced around the question. Then "Do we know how the victim was killed?" - answer "We're not releasing any information on her injuries right now." Another inexplicable dance. (And apparently "right now" has evolved into "ever.") Some time later we heard about the SW with the "puncture wounds" mentioned, and assumed it was a stabbing/beating. But then we had to make sense of why they had pursued guns and kept gun info out of the public view in records requests, because why would there be any LE interest in guns if (per our impression at the time) MB was not shot. It made no sense to us, back then.
We didn't question it at the time, but the tools we saw perp carrying were very minimal -- a crowbar, a hammer, a flashlight, and that's about it. While any of those could certainly be used to strike someone, none of those would be things we would readily associate with "puncture" wounds. We just assumed perp had something used to create such wounds, but not focusing on what exactly we thought it was, or how it all fit.
So, gotta mention, if we go back in and layer the FBI's info into the equation of everything else that occurred at the outset, some things make way better sense now. That's secondary evidence towards knowing the answer, but it's in a way corroborating what the FBI has.
Going back 6 years, in the discussions in the first few months after the murder, there was a lot of speculation about how MB was killed. We wondered if she had been shot. In the 1st PC, a media member asked "Did you say she had been shot?" - answer was "I did not say that" - it sounded like the media member had heard something, and LE had danced around the question. Then "Do we know how the victim was killed?" - answer "We're not releasing any information on her injuries right now." Another inexplicable dance. (And apparently "right now" has evolved into "ever.") Some time later we heard about the SW with the "puncture wounds" mentioned, and assumed it was a stabbing/beating. But then we had to make sense of why they had pursued guns and kept gun info out of the public view in records requests, because why would there be any LE interest in guns if (per our impression at the time) MB was not shot. It made no sense to us, back then.
We didn't question it at the time, but the tools we saw perp carrying were very minimal -- a crowbar, a hammer, a flashlight, and that's about it. While any of those could certainly be used to strike someone, none of those would be things we would readily associate with "puncture" wounds. We just assumed perp had something used to create such wounds, but not focusing on what exactly we thought it was, or how it all fit.
So, gotta mention, if we go back in and layer the FBI's info into the equation of everything else that occurred at the outset, some things make way better sense now. That's secondary evidence towards knowing the answer, but it's in a way corroborating what the FBI has.