Going over this yet again doesn't change my opinion that it isn't a mirror image. If it was a mirror image folded along what appears to be a crease mark, the image on both sides of that mark would be more or less identical (as in a Rorschach ink blot test... a horrible word to get your tongue around!)... but they're NOT identical! Furthermore, the area around the wound would be far messier from blood oozing out of the wound and not as regular as it appears to be. IMO it seems that someone, whether the killer, policeman, or medical examiner has drawn a thumb or finger (or the end of the rifle plus or minus moderator in the case of the killer) across the wound once or maybe twice from left to right to leave those two blobs indicated by the turquoise arrows. There are also faint lines in the smears from left to right indicating the direction of travel of whatever caused them.
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So I agree with a millenial... for once. millenial LOL!... had to look that one up.
Hoots, shoots or whatever!
Hi Myster
Well I only asked
again in light of new info ie the fact it now seems clear the police moved SC from her found position. If her head was slightly raised against NB's bedside cabinet it might mean her chin was resting in her neck. I thought you raised the possibility of a mirror image in the past but it may have been John. Maybe mirror image is the wrong term but the smearing around the upper wound might have been caused by the folds of flesh connecting.
There's hardly any blood around the lower non-fatal gsw but by comparison an abundance around the upper fatal gsw. Since the upper wound was immediately fatal that rules SC out. All the expert evidence is that SC sustained the gsw's and died circa 3.30am so by the time the police etc observed her any blood would surely have dried? Leaving only the
killer or the rifle/moderator swiping across the skin upon discharge. However Prof Knight at trial said gsw's don't immediately leak blood. Apparently blood vessels contract for a few seconds until blood leaks. Meaning by the time blood started leaking the rifle was probably away from the wound. So we're left with the
killer! I don't see the rifle/moderator sweeping across the skin upon discharge making the mark. I'm looking at a good quality soc image and the marks (dried bloodstain) around the upper wound resemble dried blood stains around the armpit area.
Think a pathologist and blood pattern analyst would have to advise. Looking at the soc image it seems to me there's a lot of swelling in that area either internal from bruising or a build up of blood so I guess once SC's head came to rest against the cabinet it may have caused the mark. Prof Knight did say the heart can continue functioning after the brain ceases to function. Also bearing in mind involuntary movement post death does occur.
The Rorschach ink blot test is a psychological test as opposed to biochemistry? It's the reason I'm loathed to commit to saying what I can see in these images unlike some ie David who claims to see SC's palm print and muzzle impressions from the rifle sans silencer.