Scipio I'm not going to pretend that I find it easy to look at the photos and draw any sort of interpretation, let alone correct ones, because I don't.
Is it possible that blood could leak from SC's wounds if officers moved her? I know you don't believe SC was moved but is it possible pathologically based on her wounds? SC's head to the left of NB's bedside cabinet doesn't look right?
I can put my guilty hat on and see things from a different perspective but I do struggle with the bible and burns.
Religion has never played any role in my life whatsoever other that mandatory religious education lessons at school, Sunday school and the Brownies and Guides. I do remember taking the Brownies and Guides very seriously always referring to my handbook about various things
Religion obviously played a significant role in June's life and I can imagine her reaching for her bible in such terrible circumstance to hold as opposed to read.
I did find your post above amusing and you've gone up in the 'like' rankings!
She was moved by the killer. She was dragged flat in order to be able to stick the gun on her and make it appear she shot herself while lying down. That is why there are 2 mutually exclusive blood flows. One flow could only occur while she was seated. The other could only occur while she was lying down. Jeremy only moved her enough to allow her head to clear the table. Your guess is as good as mine as to why he didn't pull her down even further so her head was not next to the table.
All the blood was dry by the time police entered. Nothing they did would result in blood getting anywhere. This is why Mike makes up she was shot after police broke in. Only by making up she died after police broke in would it be possible for blood to change course and get around as police moved her body.
If the Bible had been on the floor then June would likely have bled on it like she did the socks. If the Bible had been there before the pool of blood formed then the blood would have leaked on top of it or around it not under it. There is no way to account for a little blood getting on it, it closing and being reopened to the same exact page and then more blood getting on it after it was reopened other than someone intentionally reopened it to the same page after it was intentionally or accidentally closed and then stuck it in the pool of blood thus getting the additional blood on it. The blood that got on there from sitting in a pool didn't have a mirror image proving it got there after the Bible had been reopened.
That it was closed, reopened to the same exact page and then placed in a pool of blood that formed after Sheila was moved flat but before that pool dried is quite clear. The only thing this tells us is that someone was there moving her body flat and reopened it to stick in the pool of blood. We don't know whether it closed accidentally or intentionally or exactly why it was being done beyond trying to suggest a religious connection of some sort to the deaths. The exact intended motivation doesn't really matter. For the purposes of criminology all that matters is that the body and Bible were moved while the blood was still wet so someone had to be there doing the moving.
June received a serious wound to the head while in bed. The notion she sought out the Bible to sit reading as she was bleeding to death is not credible. This was all a shock not something she was prepared for and understood and faced what was happening. Not that if you are aware that necessarily means you will turn to religion at the end either. When my maternal grandmother was in her final stretch of dying from cancer she stopped praying. She knew the chemo failed and that the end was near so you would think at that point she would be praying to go to heaven or something. She would pray hours a day and watched a religious channel on TV always. She was obsessed "Mother Angelica" had a cult like following. Yet she did neither towards the end. This is not unique. They say there are no atheists in foxholes. I have observed people in harms way praying not to get seriously harmed but if that fails and they are seriously harmed and know they won't make it they don't bother with prayer or even think about it, they think of other things. Even though we expect people to think of religion when very close to death time after time I have encountered people not doing that.
In some ways it is surprising but not if you consider that religion is meant to tell people how to live and also to help people cope with life's stresses. Troubled people are very needy and vulnerable. That is not only how they get mixed up with cults but the kind of people preyed upon by terrorists to become suicide bombers. People who can't cope with life are the kind who commit suicide. It can take the shape of people who can't cope with financial problems, can't cope with being bullied, can't cope with failed relationships,...it is the coward way out when you don't want to hack it anymore. The belief that loved ones are in heaven helps people to cope with the loss of loved ones and the thought of an afterlife makes it easier to accept that you will one day die. This is to help people deal with trials during life. I can't imagine someone dying trying to retrieve a Bible to read or even to hold while dying just seems absurd to me. Now members of some religious cult who were brainwashed into thinking suicide is good and dying int he name of religion holding a Bible or reading it as they wait for poison to take effect or before shooting themselves is about the only way I can see someone seeking out a Bible knowing they are dying. That then is the logical intended suggestion of sticking a Bible near a victim. We know he stuck the gun on her to make it look like she committed suicide. The only logical explanation for the Bible is intending to make it look like there was a religious motivation for the killings.