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1st March 2015, 12:07 AM | #281 |
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This has become an intractible problem for me studying the case. 11pm seems impossible, as does 2 30 am
But 11pm sounds ideal to reconcile the computer evidence, and the habitual evidence. The stomach is completely empty with a 250 mg solid meal in 2 to 4 hours, and contents should be unrecognisable after 2 hours. I read scores of clinical studies attempting to understand how Meredith Kercher could eat at 6pm and have an empty duodenum at the earliest time she could die, 9pm, and none of them supported the contention. She supposedly ate a meal roughly equivalent to that required by the standard standard gastric test. I concluded she probably ate a lot later, along with her desert, at 7 30pm. None of this makes any sense, it seems murder victims have unique metabolisms, a concept obviously unsustainable by causal relationships. A specific study I quoted earlier in the thread, states The pizza would take roughly two hours to digest within the stomach and if the autopsy was performed and showed that the pizza was still in the stomach then it would be safe to assume the deceased died within two hours http://www.exploreforensics.co.uk/st...-evidence.html Obviously in this case, with two victims, the data is huge, and there is a deep mystery. |
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Except prostitutes are paid to do or say what you want
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1st March 2015, 01:11 AM | #288 |
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No, I didn't say it was tame, I said the citation you gave for the "silhouette" said nothing at all about a silhouette and certainly didn't make it sound like the curtains were soaked in blood as you seem to be implying. Hence, it was tamer.
Repeat: do you have a cite for this? I haven't seen anything that suggests this in what you've posted. Where did you see the photos if they're no longer available? As I understand it, your belief in his guilt is that the crime scene was so violent and blood-soaked that the murders could only have been committed by someone close to the victims. Fine. I just want to see some evidence for this belief and so far you haven't provided any. I'm prepared to go along with this silhouette / super-violent crime scene thing, but not on hearsay. |
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As I said earlier as long as we don't have to pay compo the slimey murdering scum can do whatever he wants.
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1st March 2015, 02:07 AM | #290 |
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The photos have never been available to view to the public, and never will be as far as I'm aware.
Hearsay is all you're going to get aside from the evidence presented in court, but do note that the violence and blood have nothing to do with evidence for Lundy or someone close to have committed the crime - all the blood proves is that someone had a massive clean-up after the event. Pah; he'll get a job no problems, same as all the other murderers who do. Soulan Pownceby made the goddamned Olympic team after he'd got out of jail and there was a murderer on the X Factor last week. There are enough supporters of Lundy that he will have no trouble at all. I understand he has even got a girlfriend now. Is she showing up in court? You need to learn more about human nature. Oscar Psitorius was turning up to court with his new woman, as was Simon Gittany, and as no doubt Gable Tostee will do. Jesus, even Charles Manson has no trouble finding women, even if the latest one only did want him for his body. As Mark Twain said over a century ago - no matter how vile a crime has been committed, there will always be supporters of the perpetrator. (referring to support for Injun Joe in Tom Sawyer) |
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So how and when did you see the photos? I thought you said you hadn't been following the evidence? Re: second paragraph. The evidence presented in court (according to the news reports of it anyway) is not consistent with the idea you've been presenting that the murderer was soaked from head to toe in blood. So what does make you think it was Lundy? Your emphasis on the violence seemed to be in response to people asking why you're so sure. So why are you so sure, if that's not it? Is it just the supposed premeditation? Why would that make it indisputably Lundy? |
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There is no "correct" way to grieve; everyone's reactions to loss is personal to them.
The general public of Australia convicted Lindy Chamberlain in their own minds because she didn't act the way they expected. The way she was publicly treated was a disgrace, and reflected very badly on Australians as a whole. |
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Two days after my father died I was back at school, cracking jokes and confusing my friends with my "weird" behaviour. I repressed that grief.
Anyone who thinks they know how someone should react to death / murder / shocking news of any kind is mistaken. |
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Your grief was unexceptional, but very personal, it is quite hard for people to correctly perceive how rapidly their passing will be accomodated in the lives of others...
which is weird here. We have an uninvolved Lundy to imagine. And an involved Lundy. The thread is starved of anyone that has a physically involved Lundy. Three permutations. |
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Suggesting that just because someone is a sex worker she would be willing to lie and help someone cover up a vicious murder? That isn't helpful.
There are sex workers out there who would tell a lie like that, just like there are non-sex workers who would as well. Most would not. We're talking about two completely different universes of "crime." |
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The Lindy Chamberlain case has caused me to severely wish that nothing suspicious ever happens to a loved one (other then of course just not wanting anything bad to happen to a loved one) because apparently I grieve like so many people have just up and decided an innocent person is supposed to grieve like.
I grieve hard, but I get very outwardly calm and have odds fits of dark humor, it's just how I cope. So I doubt a jury would have to work hard to convince themselves of me doing some nefarious. No one should take a quick trip on a short rope because they didn't throw themselves on the coffin as it was being lowered into the ground or show up to the trail dressed in Victorian Mourning Wear and communicate entirely through heaving sobs. |
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I'm exactly the same way and have had exactly the same thought.
People would do well to read a little into the psychology of grief. The so-called "5 stages of grief" are basically woo, and by no means universal even when they do loosely apply. Grief is as diverse as the people who experience it. Putting people under a microscope during a process like that just isn't going to go well in 99.9999999% of cases. The court of public opinion is basically a mob. For the record, I'm not saying this guy didn't do it. I have no idea. I find the case interesting. I'm just pointing out what I perceive as errors in thinking where I see them. Even if he did do it, how he grieved on camera is no kind of evidence. |
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Demeanor "evidence" is pure bunk. I suppose one has to follow quite a few murder investigations to appreciate how naive it is to imagine one can divine guilt by observing how a suspect behaves.
The reference I like to cite is Maggie Haines, a college girl who joked with police and munched donuts after her entire family was knifed to death by a mysterious intruder whom she had not even seen. Maggie fled into the night while the attack was in progress. She escaped the carnage without injury, her story did not fit with the evidence at the crime scene, and her demeanor seemed to be that of a cold and self-absorbed psychopath. She immediately made herself a suspect, but she didn't do it. Alec Kreider, a teenage friend of one of the murder victims, did it for kicks. When police talked to him, he seemed genuinely concerned and baffled by the murders. He did not in any way attract suspicion. After a few months, however, Kreider became suicidal and was committed to a psychiatric facility, where he confessed to the murders. His confession was corroborated by physical evidence and a knowledge of facts that had not been released to the public. The Lundy case sounds more like murder for cause than a thrill killing, but I'm far from sure about that. The crime scene photos would tell us a lot. Lundy's demeanor tells us nothing. The facts of his alibi tell us he could not plausibly have done what prosecutors claim he did. I won't waste much time trying to clue in people who think they can tell Lundy is guilty just by looking at him. Websleuths is thataway ->] Meanwhile, those of us who wonder what really happened have an interesting murder case to examine. We need much more information than what we have. We may have to accept that we'll never know. |
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Already answered - see above.
It's not the way Lundy acted, but the inconsistency of his actions. One second unable to stand unsupported, then when the cameras are off, switching to a totally different, cheerful mode. Lundy was putting on an act for the public. That is not consistent with a grieving father & husband. |
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Humour me, which answer specifically?
ETA: every time I've been through the grieving process, which is more times than typical for someone my age, unforch, my behaviour has been so wildly inconsistent that it's surprised me. Literally going from bawling my eyes out one minute to laughing and joking the next. I don't think the human brain is capable of feeling one emotion continually for long periods of time. |
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By the way, The Atheist, do you have references for Lundy's behaviour at that time? How did he know when the cameras were off, and how does anyone else know how he behaved if it was not on camera?
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This is not uncommon. People react in different ways, and something like this is often a psychological defence mechanism against having to deal with a reality they desperately want to reject.
Lundy's behaviour was unusual, but not unheard of; anyone old enough to have been to a few funerals of friends and family will recognise it - a person who was inconsolable one moment, recovered and happy the next. Grief is often an emotional roller-coaster, the person grieving is just along for the ride and has no control over where their grief is taking them. The problem for the observer is that they only get a snapshot of the person's grief, a few moments, and then they are trying to extrapolate that into a judgement of the griever's personality. Making such judgements is fraught with error. http://thoughtcatalog.com/katherine-...u-about-grief/ |
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Its obvious to you perhaps. You are biased, and you project that bias onto your interpretation of how he has behaved,
You think he's guilty therefore he must be acting therefore he must be guilty. This is another example of boot-strapping. I'll bet you didn't think that when you saw him before he was even a suspect. Fortunately, the way people behave when they grieve is not evidence in a court of Law. The way he collapsed and needed support can easily be interpreted as being overcome with grief. I collapsed at work and had to be help up when my Mum phoned me and told me that my Dad had died suddenly. If you had seen me, I guess you would have said I was acting too. |
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What's "obvious" acting? If you feel he was insincere in his grief, that's simply a subjective opinion and holds even less water than the half-blind psychic who says she saw him running down the street after the killings dressed as a woman.
Unless the Crown can provide some solid physical evidence linking Lundy to the murders, even give some plausible way he could have committed them from 150km away, he can be the king of ham for all I care. |
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And the fact that someone is acting differently when cameras are on this doesn't mean they are putting on a show. Being filmed can just make someone nervous, agitated or amplifying an emotional state they are already in.
But as always it's a shame that everyone who can "just tell" guilt from innocence at a glance never wind up on juries. I was afraid from the moment this subforum was suggested that it was going to quickly devolve into nothing but armchair lawyers, criminologist, and psychologists. |
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Mate, you know it and I know it, but I'm loving the people who are trying to make it out as natural. I wish I knew where those videos were, because it was so goddamned blatantly obvious.
All I can say is, thank christ the scumbag at least served ten years. Gotta say, the bad news is, he looks a lot better now than when he went to jail. A huge shame someone didn't shank him while he was in there. C'est la vie. |
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Chris Morrison says use email and FB instead of skype. Unlikely to have much but you never know.
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My brothers and I were gathered at my parents house when we got the call from the nursing home that my dad had died. I don't recall anyone breaking down. In fact, we had a pleasant sad, but humorous conversation.
The day of his funeral, I was back and forth between jovial and joking and completely non-functional. Certain events, particularly when they gave my mom the flag at the grave site, made me break down. This lasted for a few minutes each time, and then I was back to normal. That day was oddly back and forth between smiling and joking and sobbing uncontrollably. It's almost bipolar. Now, consider this: How much worse must it be if the deceased was murdered? You're still going through this bipolar roller coaster ride, but now you're doing so with police, reporters and amateur internet psychologists watching your behavior thinking they can solve the crime based on how you act. It just might occur to you that it would be in your best interest to appear the way you think everyone expects you to appear. |
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I saw it when it first aired, but can't find it anywhere now. Here's the kind of "special insight" you can expect from the episode (from a review):
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It hardly matters what operating system was used. All modern PC's store shutdown/power down times as a matter of course. Even if you unplug it from the wall socket, capacitors ensure that the PC still has time to write the power-down time to the logs.
The computer may have powered down after a power surge. It might have been shut down manually. It might even have been instructed to shut down remotely. There simply isn't enough information to conclude anything about the computer shut down time and what it means. If we had confirmation that the shut-down was a properly controlled, user-initiated shut-down, we can at least narrow the possibilities, but the information we have to hand so far can tell us nothing about whom or what caused the computer to turn off. |
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