Who started this rumour about Ann Eaton taking home dirty laundry?
The police did not treat it as a rumour Grahame.
There are documents pre trial in which discussion takes place over what the defence might claim in that the silencer and the knickers were taken to the Eatons home and that blood from the knickers could have been used to contaminate the silencer by the relatives.
Now that discussion would not have taken place unless the police had evidence to support it.