Mike if the rifle was moved to check for signs of life that i can understand, what possible reason is there to replace the rifle in a different position, a crime scene contaminated by blundering idiots.
Well...
I can assure you and everyone else that I have (seen) a photograph of Sheila on the bed with only a solitary wound to her throat at a time when no rifle was on her body. I have also seen a different photograph of Sheila on the bed at a time when the was no blood running from the corners of her mouth - again, there was no rifle on the body at this time...
It should be clear to everybody and anybody, therefore, that somewhere in the chain of events which took place after the two photographs I have been speaking about were taken, Sheila sustained or received the second fatal shot under the chin, which according to the pathologist, Peter Venezis, was the shot that killed her, instantaneously. It should also be clear that it was the pathologists opinion that the other lower wound was non fatal in nature, and that there was or had been opportunity for a substantial bloodloss before the second fatal chin shot was inflicted. He qualified this during his trial testimony by drawing attention to the considerable amount of blood which stained the upper right part of her nightdress, adding that Sheila could have walked around for sometime, in between both shots being sustained, or he used words to that effect, adding that there was evidence of a delay (as described) between both shots by reference to bruising of the skin around the lower entry wound which informed him that Sheila survived the initial shot to the neck and that she only died once the fatal shot beneath the chin was sustained. I feel I should also draw attention to how the pathologist accounted for how the bloodstain on the front upper part of Sheila`s nightdress got there? He suggested that the use of her arm and right hand had contributed to it.. .
He also commented on the lack or absence of any vertical trails of blood on the nightdress which suggests that she had not been walking immediately around much after receiving the original shot? I would just like to say that I agree with his interpretation, but I would seek to give a reason for this which was/ is that as soon as Sheila received the first shot she. Fell down and brougjt the fingers of her right hand to her neck and fell slightly on her right side which enabled the bloostain on the front upper right hand side to be created or generated. It is quite possible that Sheila remained in that position for quite some time, long enough for the police yto think that she had committed suicide, and long enough for the blood on the nighjtdress to have dried, so tjat when she regained consciousness and walked aout blood did not run vertically down the front of her nightdress..
