I can also tell you, that although after being interviewed by the police during the early part of September 1985, and bailed pending another matter, that police were still trying to put Jeremy in the frame for the murders. This included an attempt to get digitalized evidence from 6 audio tapes belonging to an answer phone which police had seized from Jeremy's cottage when arrested - police were hoping to find a 15 second period recorded upon one of the tapes, which matched the 15 second call made to Jeremy at his cottage from the scene, so as to prove that Jeremy could have dialed his own telephone number from the scene by use of the Scepter 100 digital phone situated in the upstairs office at the scene (whf), but they found no such evidence...
This also explains why EP needed to find the shortest possible route from WHF to Goldhanger. With MM out of the equation, they needed to make it look as though Jeremy called Goldhanger but when that became difficult to 'make fit' perhaps they decided to lose the phone altogether or at least evidence of the call?
