I don’t think you can compare this case with the Jodi Jones case. And you certainly can’t compare the circumstances in which they were both found. The boyfriend in the case you posted was 100 miles away from his girlfriend who was hiking alone in secluded snowy terrain. Moreover, he didn’t find the body until 10 months after she went missing (4 months at its lowest, if you factor in that this was when it became feasible for him to physically search for her personally, after the heavy snow disappeared between nov 2020 and April 2021). Luke Mitchell, on the other hand, found Jodi’s body within 40 mins! Now, per se, Luke finding the body within 40 minutes is, imo, is not enough to be overly incriminating, but it is still suspicious, especially when taken together with the rest of the circumstantial evidence against him. Jodi’s body while admittedly being found ‘off the beaten path’, it was not off the beaten path for locals. And many locals used this secluded woodland area behind the V to walk their dogs (Gd’s father, for example) and it was a common area for gangs of youths to gather, and yet Luke was the only person to find it despite more than 6 hours having elapsed since Jodi was last seen alive. The crux of the matter is that only a local would know to hide the body there, and Luke did know this area well and found the body within a few seconds of climbing over that V; it’s like he was a robot programmed to find Jodi. Very suspicious, imo, and it’s even more suspicious when you consider all the other circumstantial evidence used against him. In fact, many people consider Luke to be highly intelligent, but I’m of the opinion that he displayed stupidity by finding Jodi as quickly as he did. Why didn’t he distance himself from it? Maybe he thought at the time it would’ve worked in his favour? I mean, sure, it was only a matter of time before the other circumstanstial evidence caught up with him, but it was still a strange and stupid thing for him to do, imo. Luke’s emotions at the scene of the body just slight (slight intonation in his voice whe saying, “I’ve found something!” and Janine saying that Luke’s eyes were larger than normal; notice these are the signs of someone who isn’t all that perturbed or distressed by the finding of a mutilated body — Luke was acting normal throughout it all according JAJ and, by the ambulance crew’s account, Luke was nonchalantly texting away on his phone. And then there were Luke’s taunts to the police (ridiculing them that they’d never solve the case, being forensically aware, and calling them ‘retards’ for allowing the bins to be emptied so soon; a young man in control, being calculated, underhand, deceitful, cocky, lippy, advanced for his age, undisciplined by his mother, spoiled, man about the house, left to his own devices most of the time, having a very short temper and used to getting his own way. A recipe for disaster, was it not?
Btw, not to be morbid, but does anyone have a photo, video, a link, etc, of the exact spot where Jodi’s body lay on the evening golf 30.06.03? I’ve seen some pics & videos of the woodland behind the V, but does anyone have a pic of the exact location?
The main cause of miscarriages of justice is when Police suffer from 'confirmation bias' which is very clearly what happened with Mitchell's case. I remember a couple of years ago you were less than convinced about whether LM was guilty or not (unless I've mixed you up with someone else). I assume you've read the transcripts. The evidence of Janine Jones would have canned laughter over it if it wasn't a murder trial. Consider this:
1. Most of her answers in Court were "I don't know".
2. She claimed in Court LM showed no reaction to the body being discovered, but her original statement said "everyone was in hysterics".
3. Janine Jones claimed in Court she did not know of Roan's Dyke Path. So she lived with her mother for about 16 years less than 5m walk away and was never told by her mother not to go up the path when she was a child or teenager? Seriously? Janine knew Jodi used the path to meet Luke as well, but apparently doesn't know this path?
4. Neither Janine Jones nor Alice Walker could explain why they went straight to Roan's Dyke Path, nor why whilst walking up said path towards the V, failed to even look in the wooded area before the wall. If a body was going to be found it wasn't going to be on the path - obviously.
[Name removed] and [Name removed]'s answers also consisted of nothing other than "I don't remember" and "I don't know".
Don't you think there is something wrong with all this with 4 people in particular seemingly being hit by amnesia?