Listening to the following got me thinking about MB as the perp with DB re-setting the scene to absolve his mother.
http://stuff.libsyn.com/mrs-bain-the-diary-and-the-devilIt features a psychologist and educational consultant who was acquainted with RB and agreed to help the family. She visited the home once only and described it is as dirty and cluttered with dirty underpants mixed up with old food and fat dripping down walls. The children run around naked and she described the scene as "chaos". She agreed to interview each member of the family and make reccommendations as to what type of therapy was required. She described MB as the dangerous one who wanted to get inside everyone's mind and control them and describes a pathological dysfunction never before witnessed. MB apparently talked non-stop and didn't appear to listen and was worried her children were developing their own thoughts and no longer under her control. She also constantly put RB down and yet she wanted to resume her sex life with him!? &%+((£
The parents apparently thought the outside world was full of evil and they created a wonderful protective environment from outside influences for their children.
She also described RB as pathologically dysfunctional.
She described DB as close to his mother and the only one of the children who showed respect towards his father.
It seems to me the parents were suffering from depression and mental illness and one or the other was reponsible for the murders.
65 Every street was set out on two levels. MB, DB, LB and SB slept upstairs and AB downstairs. RB slept outside the property in a campervan.
The order of the shootings has never been established. If MB was the perp with DB out on his paper round and RB still in his campervan this wound mean MB would need to shoot 2 victims upstairs: LB and SB and 1 victim downstairs: AB. She would then wait until RB entered in the morning as per his normal routine and shoot him. This is far more doable imo than either RB or DB shooting three victims upstairs: MB, LB and SB and 1 victim downstairs: AB.
The bloody footprints, which measured 280mm, were mostly just outside and inside MB's bedroom. RB's foot was said to measure 270mm and DB's 300mm. Did the 280mm represent MB's foot?
This could explain so much:
- A right-handed person 'committing suicide' with a gunshot to the left temple.
- DB's delay in calling emergency services
- DB's fingerprints supposedly found in blood on the rifle.
- MB sustained a gsw to the eye "an eye for an eye"!
I don't know much about the case so Samson will probably be able to blow the above out of the water with one sentence. Also would a very overweight MB be in a position to overpower SB? But this might explain the blood smears around the door frames from a large person blustering around.