The question is also could the killer have had an accomplice as well? One doing the killing the other one canvassing the house looking for the diaries, cleaning up the crime scene? If there had been two, than the cleaning up job would have been quicker for sure. But then, why was the blood stain on the door missed?
All things we don't know.
You can rule out her falling against the rock. When the body was moved, the imprint of her head was visible on the ground due to the force of the block.
He pulled clumps of her hair right out.
Who has proved that though?
What this case totally lacks is a trial, where all evidence is tested and questioned.
As it is, anything and everything is up for debate because from the Gaurds to the Press to the Pathologist, no one is trusted.
The problem with this is that she must have locked herself out. There is no evidence that the killer let himself in afterwards and placed the keys in the lock. He had no reason to do so anyway.
Just wondering, where does Ian Bailey live these days? Drunk in a homeless shelter? or able to do something constructive? Did the lawsuits drain him completely?
Why would she be locked out? The crime scene photos show the front door on the latch - again something that makes it look she went outside of her own volition.
And the frantic chase down the front field, unless it was particularly dry weather that week why was there nothing found? Not a boot print, not even a half a print. And if the killer lifted a 25kg block to add to his own weight, not even so much as a heel indent observed.
Either there was no evidence because there was no killer or I'm all in with Jim Wallace and a full on Garda cover up.
Paris Match quoting Superintendent JP Twomey....."The door was locked. It would be impossible for anyone to re-enter as the keys were on the inside of the door"
Ya because someone couldn't have walked through an open door searched the house and pulled the door out to cover their tracks.
It's awfully strange how AGS try to control the narrative with obvious half truths.
Yes. Hair loss, facial injuries, almost lost an eye.
No bloody footprints in the house. It seems pretty straightforward to me. She opened the door, was grabbed and dragged out by the hair, pulled out the door trying to resist.
Possibly.
Or they took off their shoes.
Or the door was left open and the wind blew it shut.
Youre right... there should be prints in typical Irish weather.
I wonder if anyone on the thread have a weather app access that could give the weather for that week. Could it have been frosty and so hard ground?
Bloody footprints are you actually for real? This isn't the shining. Your literally just making up compete cobblers.
The killer would have had blood on his clothes and footwear. There was also blood on the outside of the door behind the handle. Jim Sheridan speculated that the killer tried to get in after the murder but was locked out.
She put her boots on and went out the back door,
the keys were in the lock in the front door.
I`m not sure how you can say which door she went out. I seem to remember either Sheridan or Foster saying she went out the door that faced Alfie`s place, that she answered a knock to that door because she thought there was something wrong with him or Shirley.
Dogs barking out of character could be easily explained by having better hearing than humans and potentially hearing someone being attacked in the distance..
Dogs can hear 4 or 5 times better than humans.. if you've ever lived in the countryside you'd often hear dogs barking in winter when foxes are calling in the distance..
Good point, as far as I remember it was near freezing temperatures that night. But let's picture, for an example, Ian Bailey standing outside her door that night. What do we guess he weighs? At least 14 or 15 stone I'd say. And then him charging down that front field after her like a randy wounded bull.
Yet not a trace of a bootmark left on that ground.
It's worth a consideration. Somebody must have taken the time to clean up the crime scene and knew what he was doing. Not only Bailey but also Sophie must have left tracks of some sort, that is especially if Sophie was running and Bailey chasing after her.
Nobody can clean up boot prints in a field in the dark. Either there was nothing there or the cops pretended there was nothing there.
over 15 stone I'd guess - he's a big man
Or there was all sorts of footprints about the place from whoever was doing the fencing work
It's a bit like the lack of fingerprints / DNA evidence and the theory of the Gards deliberately not finding anything.....
Lots of people seem to be doing the same thing the Gardaí did at the time - starting with a person and trying to create a narrative to fit that person to the crime, blinding themselves to other possibilities.
If the crime is ever to be solved investigators need to work forward from the available evidence with an open mind.
Again, picture Bailey charging down that field in the dark, and tell me how he left nothing behind.
Dr Harbison continued. He identified two possible weapons near the body: "Beside the deceased's left shoulder and head was a flat slate like a stone which was heavily blood stained . . . Between the deceased's body and the wire fence and within 9in of her left hand was a 9in cavity block." The block rested on the dead woman's blue dressing gown, and appeared to have been taken from a hut built around an electric water pump, 20-30ft further up the hill.
Looks like the flat slate stone was the final weapon used.
Looks like someone knew about the loose blocks (say) 25feet further up the lane in the dark.... as pointed out 3000 posts ago.
And remember that the she supposedly came across the front paddock which would have brought her onto the lane at a lower point if I'm correct.
Morning killing 8-9am (December)
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He identified two possible weapons near the body:
Note well that word possible. These guys don't use words in their reports lightly.
The state pathologist identified 2 bloodstained rocks, in close proximity to the body, as possible murder weapons.
In most murder cases, there would be gunshot, stab, blunt force trauma. A murder weapon might be a knife, axe, etc. But in this case, it's much more vague. Two nearby rocks. Maybe.
Or that block was already there beside the gate,to keep the it open
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