Okay, here is my list of questions that I would love to have answers to! :
MAX: a) As far as we know, Max was on his own when he fell/jumped,
but, did 'Ocean' the dog have something to do with it ...... maybe jumping up at Max while he was balanced on the banister? Did Max say the dog's name because he
had been involved in the fall, or did Rebecca say he said that, to implicate the dog?
In the recording of Max's aunt describing the evening she arrived in town and Rebecca picked her up from the airport(train station?), the aunt said that while they were driving along she asked Rebecca
where exactly Max fell from. Rebecca replied '
from the bedroom' , which the aunt thought was odd, didn't make any sense. However, the aunt also said that Rebecca was having trouble finding her way to the hospital and in the end she(the aunt), ended up holding a map and guiding her. The aunt said she was asking Rebecca lots of questions(about Max's fall), but not getting any answers. I think this is understandable given the stressful driving conditions ...... so when Rebecca said 'from the bedroom', was she replying to the question 'How did Max get hold of the skateboard/scooter, I thought it had been taken from him?'. (I think I'm right in saying the scooter thing had been taken off him because of some misbehaviour with it previously).
c) In the pictures of Max's supposed 'method' of falling, the size of the model used in comparison to the height of the railings doesn't seem plausible ..... I don't think a child(or an adult for that matter), could run at the railings and simply
tip over them. Banisters are designed, after all, to keep people safe!
d)
Could Max's death have been staged? Was he already dead and then
thrown from the landing? (I don't think that's what happened, I'm just asking the question because I'm not sure it's been raised as a possibility before).
e) Could Rebecca's sister have been involved at the time of his death ...... egging him on to do something daring on the banisters? Maybe even helping him up there?
f) I think you're right to ask who was in the house at the time of Max's demise, Duncansmom ......... any staff, for instance? or delivery men?
'Ocean' : Just a brief word: the dog was put into kennels
on Jonah's insistence the day after the fall. Was this a simple 'there's a lot going on at the moment with Max seriously ill in hospital, let's have one less thing to think about and put the dog in kennels',
or, as someone commenting in one of the links suggests: so that the dog wasn't around to make a noise about anything untoward that then subsequently happened in the house i.e. the murder of Rebecca?
ADAM SHACKNAI : a) I think this is of great significance!! : when the Coronado Police Chief first spoke to Adam and commiserated with him(on being the one to find Rebecca's body), the first thing Adam did was curse and say, ' I don't think my bedside manner is that bad!' ........ WTF!! (beg your pardon
). He certainly felt very comfortable and relaxed around the
Police Chief to say
that, didn't he?!! Was he getting that in as soon as he could, to put the thought in the police's mind
right from the word 'go' that this was a sex game gone wrong? Because, as I have discovered, sometimes 'suicide' becomes the official verdict 'to spare the family's blushes' if the story of a kinky sex game was made public!!
Where was Adam standing when he supposedly cut Rebecca's body down? On the balcony? On the ground? On the little outside table, maybe?
c) Where did he get the knife from to cut the rope? Why were there
two knifes in the 'balcony' bedroom, and a third on the ground near the body? What were they all used for and where did they come from?
REBECCA : a) Two things that point
away from her death being a suicide: she didn't leave a farewell/explanatory note(I don't count the painted words on the door), and she was naked, which points more to humiliation and/or revenge by a murderer. To say nothing of wearing a shirt round her neck which had been used as a
gag ...... why would a suicide gag themselves?
In the hours leading up to her death, Rebecca received a series of phone calls and text messages. Who were they to? from? Did Adam in fact, send any of them? Why was there no record of the voicemail Jonah said he sent to Rebecca? Did he ever send it? If it was erased, who did that?
c) The video of the 'rope demo'(to show how it
was possible for Rebecca to have tied her hands at the front, removed one hand and then put it back through behind her back), is all fine and dandy
as far as it goes! I would like to see someone demonstrate exactly how Rebecca was supposed to have tied her wrists
and her ankles and her neck and then get herself to the balcony railings and tip herself over. Now that would be very revealing. So ....... was the very limited demo given to throw people off the 'suicide' conclusion? or were the police just slack in their investigations?
d) Regarding the knots and loops made in the rope: we know Adam is a tugboat captain, but was Rebecca an experienced yachtswoman? Was she used to using ropes? Or was she experienced in bondage games and therefore familiar with binding herself so that it looked impressive but was easy to get free of? Although all this does not explain being able to hop across to the balcony and tip herself over
!
e) I think the tape residue
could be from plasters applied to tiny wounds received when kneeling on the carpet full of chandelier fragments next to Max, but I'm keeping an open mind about that .......
MATERIAL EVIDENCE: a) There was blaring music coming from the house on the night of the murder ...... to drown out screams? Where exactly was the music playing? Rebecca's room? the guesthouse?
I question the claim by the police that the writing on the door couldn't be analysed. I bet if they looked outside their county they could find someone! I bet it's possible to tell if the writer was left- or right-handed at the very least! Possibly a good estimation of their height, too. To say nothing of who did the brushes belong to? They don't look like a child's brushes
or make-up brushes, so what
were they used for? and where had they come from? was Rebecca an amateur artist? that should be easy enough to establish.
c) Max's aunt said she texted Rebecca at
9:30pm on the evening of the day she arrived, but phone records show that it was actually
10:41pm when the text was sent ....... pretty late to be going round to the house to speak to Rebecca about Max's fall(which is what the aunt claimed to be doing), especially when Rebecca had not answered her phone call
or the text ........ which most people would interpret as 'she's gone to bed, she's had a stressful day, I'll call in the morning'. But no, the aunt claims to have gone to the house and, when she didn't get a reply from knocking, walked around the back .......
why would she do that? Seems pretty odd to me.
d) The red/orange rope: from the photographs this definitely looks to me like the type of synthetic rope used on boats/yachts(I'm not saying it isn't used in other situations, by the way!).
The way the rope is attached to the bed leg is interesting: why would you start by making a loop? This is not the way Joe/Josephine Public would tie a rope! This has been tied by someone who is familiar with ropes and uses them regularly.
The photo of the rope resting on the top of the balcony railings: the railings look pretty dusty/dirty/rusty ..... there are some patches to the left of the rope where the dirt has been recently scuffed away, but around the rope
there is no scuffing! This means that the rope has been placed gently there and then not touched. This cannot be the place it was in when Rebecca went over the balcony(obviously), but it also cannot be the position it was in when Adam had just cut her down ..... there would have been a lot of movement while he was cutting through the rope. This is why I think she
never was hanging ....... I think Adam
said that he found her hanging
and cut her down because that gives a good 'alibi' for his fingerprints/DNA being on her, the rope, the balcony, etc etc.
e) The police say that Rebecca, and I quote them: 'bent over the rail and slid over'. Try and picture that ........ assuming it was even possible, wouldn't most of the dirt on the top of the railing get rubbed off during this manoeuvre?
f) The plastic bag on the bedroom floor: where had it come from? who put it there? (there seems to be some paint on it), any fingerprints on it? had it been used to suffocate Rebecca?
g) I don't know if this is of value or not: in the recording of Adam's 911 call, at one point the operator asks Adam if she(Rebecca), is dead. Adam replies 'yes, she's dead' but then he can be heard saying(to Rebecca), 'Are you dead?'. This sounded absolutely bizarre to me. I know people say odd things when under stress, so maybe it's nothing *shrugs*
Two thoughts to finish with: the police collected a
lot of evidence but didn't bother testing a lot of it ....... why not? As a unit they seem to be lazy? amateurish? definitely
not thorough!
Second thing: if
both sides are screaming for the case to be re-opened and gone through in more detail, surely there is something badly wrong with the original handling of the case?
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regi, on 24 January 2013 - 05:09 PM, said:
