Sandra Lean (Yesterday)
‘I was thinking about this just recently. The police found nothing in the first search, just 4 days after the murder. They took CM's house to pieces, searched the garden, the garage, her car, workplace, etc, etc - nothing. So, six weeks later, they go back in. And do it all over again. This time, the only "incriminating" evidence they find is the bottles of urine, courtesy of the spy in the Mitchell's midst, the FLO (ML) who obtained initial information about the bottles unlawfully - the police claimed she was never alone with LM, CM or SM, but always had another officer with her for corroboration. Yet, she entered Luke's room that day, just him and her, and asked about A bottle - from there, the rest is history. We know the bottles had nothing to do with the murder - second meticulous search. Nothing. Not a molecule of evidence. (By the way, she was alone with individual members of the Mitchell family on several occasions, by her own admission, yet her senior officer swore, on oath, that this never happened).
Well, just in case, 8 months later, they go back AGAIN. This time, they turn up evidence of some cannabis and a knife pouch with a "missing" knife. That's it - still nothing to link Luke to the murder. They already had the receipt for the knife and pouch, which showed they were bought long after Jodi's murder (which is why they didn't find it in the first two searches).
Questions:
What did they think they were going to find, 8 months later, that they didn't find 4 days and six weeks, respectively, after the murder? Is that some sort of admission that the first two searches were somehow half-a$$ed and not thorough enough? Even though they ripped the entire place apart?
How did they ever manage to pass off the "missing knife" as being linked to the murder? (1) It was bought after the murder, (2) it wasn't missing - it was handed to the police, by Luke's SOLICITOR a few days later and (3) the pathologist said, on the stand, that an identical knife to the one claimed to be "missing" was too small to have inflicted the injuries Jodi suffered.
Why was the cannabis found in Luke's room given any credence whatsoever? They wouldn't have had to look very far at all to find households of people linked to the case with much larger quantities of cannabis - if, as the final ridiculous claim became, cannabis was responsible for "making Luke do it," why wasn't that possibility considered for anyone else close to Jodi, who was consuming much more cannabis than Luke?
Those searches, to me, say it all. It wasn't "evidence" they were looking for after the first search - it was anything they could manipulate to fit their emerging narrative (e.g. the officer who said he was specifically told to look for anything Manson related). They simply adjusted that narrative as they went along - hence, a German army shirt and dozens of witnesses became a Parka Jacket with "dozens" of new witnesses (what happened to them?) And the original army shirt witnesses just disappeared into thin air.
It's quite terrifying when you see, step by step, how it was done - nothing whatsoever to do with truth and justice, but everything to do with obtaining a conviction at any cost