DeeDee249,
Not unless the bashing is intended as a fake cause of death? It appears to me that JonBenet was deliberately killed e.g. no medical assistance, then either whacked on the head or garroted, and with the interval between each injury event being small, the major concern seems to have been in finishing JonBenet off?
So does this suggest that the head blow came second, otherwise the internal bleeding and swelling would have been greater?
If the headblow occurred first either accidently or intentionally but not intended to be mortal, why was JonBenet denied medical assistance, whilst when Burke whacked her with a golf club, she was off to hospital immediately?
If you look at the following pictures then one thing seems apparent:
Picture 1.
Note the bruising
beneath the ligature furrow, it appears on either side of her neck, and is
not circumferential, there is a gap between the bruising.
Picture 2.
This is a sideview of neck and garrote, note how less embedded the furrow actually appears?
Picture 3.
Now although it appears obvious there is only
one circumferential furrow to be seen on the
back of her neck. Should there not be two, the other corresponding with the bruising beneath the ligature furrow at the front of her neck as seen on
Picture 1.?
Does the bruising lying beneath the ligature furrow, as seen on pictures 1 and 2, suggest a manual strangulation, with the garroting intended to mask this event?
This assumption seems consistent with the forensic evidence and any consequent staging?
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