Neville's kitchen fight injuries. Was it possible for Sheila to commit these ?

[adam]

The main injuries caused by Neville's horrific beating are -

Black eyes.

Broken nose.

Linear bruising to the cheeks.  Possibly from a hard object like a gun.

Lacerations to the head.

Linear type bruising to the right forearm. Possibly from a hard object such as a gun.

Bruising to the left wrist.

Bruising to the forearm.

Three circular burn type marks to the back.

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The judge said Neville put up 'a ferocious fight for life'. So Sheila would have had to negate Neville with this beating while Neville was still alive.

If the judge was wrong and Neville did not fight back, then why would Sheila give him this beating ? She just needed to shoot him again to kill him.

The view that Sheila killed him with eight bullets then gave a dead man this beating is warped.  Realistically Neville did put up a ferocious fight for life and Sheila had to give him the above injuries. The crime scene, with upturned chairs supports this.


Having established that Sheila had a massive struggle with Neville, while he was alive, the following questions need to be answered -

1:

Is it reasonable that Sheila would not have any  facial or body injuries ?

2:

Is it realistic that Sheila had no marks on her feet ? 

3

Is it reasonable that Sheila would have no damage to her nightie ?

4:

Was Sheila physically strong enough to commit these injuries ? Broken noses, skin bruising and black eyes only occur after massive blows from a fist or another object.

5:

Did Sheila have the time to commit these injuries and kill everyone else, and herself in a short space of time after Neville's phone call and before the police arrived ?

6:

Is it realistic that none of Neville's blood was on Sheila ?

7:

Why did Sheila put circular burn marks on Neville's back,  but not on anyone else's ?


The answer to the first six questions are 'no'. Meaning Sheila could not have committed this beating.

The answer to the seventh question, is that Sheila wanted to make sure Neville was dead.As he had survived the bullets from upstairs. Would Sheila in a psychotic rage have been rational enough to be able decide to do this ?

In conclusion, Sheila did not struggle with Neville.

[scipio_usmc]

If Sheila were the one who beat Nevil then:

A) her nails would have have some sort of trauma to them
B) one of her hands would have had damage of some sort from the stock breaking and also at least the beginning of blisters unless wearing gloves but no gloves she could have been wearing were found
C) She would have had medium velocity spatter from Nevill on her clothing and body.

The lack of such is what tells us she didn't do it and that is why the struggle wound up being such a blunder.  If he disabled Nevill right away and the struggle never occurred then the lack of damage to her hands and spatter would not matter.  It only matters because of the beating.

The struggle also was a blunder because it revealed the moderator was attached during the struggle because only with the moderator attached was the weapon long enough to break the ceiling light and also it got red paint on it from the mantle when it scratched against the mantle.

So it wound up having significant impact.