It was a joke Steve lighten up. For me it is the forensics above all the other issues. I cannot see how he could have done it without contamination. He was tested that night. The report shows he had not washed yet he was able to commit the crime without any, ANY contamination from blood or DNA evidence. Quite a feat for someone high on cannabis, stoned out of his mind and killing in a frenzied attack for the first time.
With a weapon that was not sufficient to produce the wounds found and would have damaged the killers hand. That it according to the pathologist.
A lot of people seem to think that the killer would’ve had to have been covered in blood, which is simply not true. SL mentions in IB that the locus had surprisingly little blood on ground (as it had likely been absorbed into the damp soil). Sure, there was blood spray on the wall, Jodi’s neck was bloody, her t-shirt was heavily bloodstained and there were droplets of blood on branches at and near the locus, but it wasn’t the bloodbath that a lot of people were led to believe. Likewise, the killer didn’t emerge from the soc blood-soaked: if this had been the case, Lf&RW would have said so in their statements. I think lm’s parka jacket was probably slightly blood-stained and lm was smart enough to realise that he would have forensic traces on him, so disappeared into the woodlands at 1740 (immediately after the lf&rw sighting) and quickly cleaned up at the small river there and then got his mother or brother to have clothes ready for him to change into quickly in that garage of theirs or in the front hallway of the house, with LM being extremely careful not to leave any incriminating dna traces in or near his house, and then he was back on nbattle rd with clean clothes on (green bomber jacket, black baggy jeans and white snowboarding boots) in time for 6 separate sightings, the first one being by the 3 boys on pushbikes who knew him. So, no — no bloodbath murder scene, no blood-soaked killer and no killer going home and having a long relaxing shower (lm would be wise enough to realise he would risk leaving dna in the shower’s plumbing system, so opted to clean up at the small river in thecwoodland behind that gate on nbattle rd where lf&rw spotted him). Lm’s pyke knife that went missing could have easily inflicted all those wounds, and the reason the police forensics said he hadn’t washed was because he hadn’t really washed; he had quickly cleaned up at that small river in the woodland — enough to remove all incriminating dna traces — and then he went out and delibertately got dirty again with David High and David Tulloch at the abbey between 1930 and 2100 (these boys testified in court that LM was a lot cleaner than he normally was, that night).
