Why would JB stage a suicide in June and Ralph´s bedroom and not in Sheila´s own? Something I have always wondered about.
Just had a horrible thought. Putting your thumb into your mouth could be a self-soothing mechanism. It isn´t a given that both twins did not wake up.
The point about why Jeremy moved Sheila into main bedroom is interesting. One thing that people forget is that there were two staircases in WHF: the main staircase near the front entrance that leads to a point between the main and Sheila's room and the second staircase in the kitchen leading up to the back of the house. This second staircase would go past the the twins room towards the main bedroom. Did Jeremy use the second staircase after killing Neville? (Note that in the crime scene photos of the kitchen show the door to this staircase in the kitchen is open). Did he go back upstairs via this staircase to kill the twins? He then may have been confronted by June and Sheila in the main bedroom (Sheila having woken up at this point).
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Another interesting point Ludwig,
However, personally I feel there is a simplistic answer to this. Common to most habitual liars, Bamber overstated his case for Sheila's culpability by making sure her body was found in the same room as one of the victims. It was designed to leave the police with no doubts whatsoever as to exactly who was really responsible for the murders at first glance and to back up the cock n' bull story Bamber had just told to the police outside. It was the same overstatement as the supposed late-night distressed phone call, the amateur dramatics outside the farmhouse when told of the family's fate, the ostentatious display of 'grief' at the funeral and numerous other incidents where Bamber almost fell over himself in an effort to both blame Sheila and remove the finger of suspicion from himself.
We are dealing with a very cunning psychopath in Jeremy Bamber, and to unravel his evil machinations and the murders that he undoubtedly committed, it is necessary to look beyond normal human rationale and step into a much more unfamiliar and darker place. This is what some very well-meaning but hopelessly naive journalists who have written eloquently about Bamber's innocence fail to consider.
