Could it be that the reason LM never went up to Jodi’s body was due to utter shock and terror, rather than him being paranoid and ‘DNA aware’ after murdering her himself? He turned and ran away immediately after he knew it was her, did he not? Indicative of his horror and shock? What was the closest LM ever got to the body that evening/morning before being taken away to the car park and then DKH station? I think, just before finding the body, he supposedly stopped a few yards from a big tree, said he saw something, said he could not identify what it was, moved a little closer and thought it was a mannequin, before finally realising it was Jodi (whereupon he immediately turned and ran away — if SL is to be believed). But, of course, we’ll never know the exact sequence of events, will we? We can only speculate and infer from the info we have, which, let’s face it, won’t be 100% accurate and reliable. Anyway, reverting back to the discovery of the body ... LM was branded a liar because he said he could see a body and its injuries from about 12 ft away and yet SK was parallel to LM (maybe a few steps further forward) and wasn’t treated with the same skepticism and aggression as LM. I suppose it is incriminating, the fact that LM could describe all of Jodi’s clothing — clothing that was scattered some feet away from her body, in the dark, from more than 12 ft away, even with a torch. Maybe Jodi hadn’t changed from school? Maybe Luke had went closer than 12 feet at some point before he was segregated from the others? It is said Luke is highly intelligent, but him describing Jodi’s clothing when he could’ve simply said he didn’t know what she was wearing, seems a bit stupid. Maybe it was a tactic he thought would have worked in his favour, as if it would somehow reinforce the notion that he had nothing to hide? Or maybe, as some have suggested, his psychopathy was such that he was quietly gloating amongst the chaos and trauma and was enjoying playing games with the police. Some people wonder why Luke was treated as the prime suspect almost immediately, but they tend to forget that the police had misinterpreted Luke and the search trio’s calls to the point where, by the time they got to the locus, they were under the impression that Luke had left with jodi earlier in the evening, then said he hadn’t seen her and then found her dead; that LM was out searching for Jodi himself and had found her himself; and then, to compound his problems, he was calm & unemotional during his calls to emergency services, saying he’d found ‘something’ and not found ‘a body’ (what was he thinking?). It seems LM didn’t get off to an auspicious start with the police as a result of these initial misunderstandings. And then there’s his seemingly calm demeanour during all this horror, giving out the impression he didn’t care and was emotionally unaffected by it all. Allegedly just sitting there, nonchalantly texting away on his phone (which was duly noted, btw). Would be interesting, and disturbing, if there was police bodycam footage of the scene of the locus that evening; really is a great pity that the technology wasn’t as it is now. Anyway, I guess the speculation in relation to this case will literally go on for aeons .....
