That IS an interesting point. We have two pieces of the three sections the brush was broken into. The middle piece was used to make the garrote. And I believe the tapered end is missing. But the BRUSH end was found in the paint tote- and was easily matched to the piece with the cord around it. It is the brush end which identifies the sticks as being broken pieces of a paintbrush. IF someone wanted to hide the fact that it actually WAS a paintbrush that was used to make the garrote, why leave behind the ONE piece that proves it was a paintbrush? AND leave it right there in the paint tote?
This is one of just so many puzzling pieces. The paintbrush was not even needed to make the garrote- it really had no necessary function. She could have been strangled with the cord without making that contraption. The way the cord was knotted didn't seem to allow for any REAL "tighten and release" pattern that one would see with an erotic asphyxiation. So the whole contraption is a puzzle.
Okay DeeDee, you have my mind working here. You are right of course it is a puzzle like the rest of the case...
I take into mind (as Im sure that you do) the adrenaline rush the stager/staggers must have been on, their nerves and panic, perhaps it was put back in the tote by mistake and that person thought they had it with the other piece. The question I guess is why leave it behind if you are going to take the other piece with you? Why break it at all?
Possibly it fits into the restaging. Maybe the first staging found the paintbrush left whole and during the restaging or undoing someone found it far more sinister to break it...
DeeDee, I have a question and maybe you can answer it for me. Did LE find fingerprints on the paintbrush, Ive tried to find a source and have found nothing as of yet? Im curious to know, if Patsys were found as they should have been. Or did it too suffer from lack of, like the RN and flashlight?
That garotte was an after thought. The weapon that was used needed to be a disgusting as what had happened to JBR, in the hopes it would point away from the R's. I mean how could they ever do such a thing and anyone that could, surely was capable of molesting a child and everyone knows affluentual people are not capable (my arse).
Could it be that it was staged to look like one parent and the other turned the tables, placing part of the brush in the tote? (pointing the finger in the other direction)
Ding Dang Dong, :banghead: