James, I'm with you until this part:
The killer catches up to her and places his left hand on her forehead, pulls her head back and quickly cuts her throat severing the carotid artery. But the cut is not deep enough or long enough to sever her vocal cords and windpipe. Suzanne grabs her throat and starts screaming.
First of all, my thinking is that if one wound was deemed fatal it probably was the throat wound meaning at that moment she's dead or quickly expiring. But let's assume you are correct and that is not the fatal wound.
Second, if the throat wound was the first stab then blood would have spurted or sprayed out all over the place. Third, you have also just described someone with energy enough to grab her throat and scream. The probability, IMO, is great that one of the following would then take place: 1) she puts up a hand or arm in self defense, 2) she takes a step or two leaving a trail of blood, 3) she falls forward or is knocked forward by the killer lunging at her leaving a trail of blood. Apparently none of these events happened.
Fourth, you then describe the killer stabbing Suzanne multiple times in the head. If she's laid out on the ground knocked out or totally incapacitated, why stab her so many times in a place as tough as the head? Why not the neck, the back, etc.?
Suzanne probably only lay there a few minutes before being spotted. Even though it was a warm night it was still December in New England. Even if it was the summer, blood is not like water; the water content may have been absorbed but the color would have remained. I would also guess the police have chemicals they can spray that would make blood easier to spot. For sake of argument, assuming blood is easily absorbed with little trace into soil, about the only way I can think of for Suzanne to have been felled in place is if someone hit her on the head and knocked her out. I don't see any evidence this happened.
- Jeff |
