I don't think it is fair to use BW's recent claim, she didn't say that the comment related to Jeremy at the time and has recently claimed to have seen the silencer and the blood on it. No one else substantiates her presence when the blood was allegedly spotted.
Based on the detail of the claim regarding when and how it supposedly was made I find it credible. It was not an ambiguous claim but a detailed one with the detail being credible not absurd. Judges get to consider such during the appeal process and had it been elicited sooner it would have gotten before a jury for them to judge whether they find it credible or not.
This is one of those situations were we can agree to disagree. It is not one of the main things I rely on though for my argument that Jeremy is guilty. It is a small piece of the puzzle.
Also, statements in the archives explain quite clearly what happened to the phones in WHF
What statements? The only statements I have seen concerning the phones were generlaized statements that when the kitchen phone was borken that it would be replaced by the bedroom phone. But the kitchen phone was not broken it was working fine. It was intentionally unplugged and hidden and replaced by the roatary bedroom phone to give the impression that it was replacing a broken phone but in fact it wasn't broken just hidden.
and as for the silencer, this has to be the most convenient piece of evidence that I have read about in any case.
Then you must not have studied many cases because there are smoking guns like that in sizable numbers of cases. Such evidence is why criminals get caught otherwise the jails would be a lot less full, if crooks were smart they would not be caught.
I already detailed in other threads what it would entail to have planted blood int he suppressor and had that been done why woudl anyone bother also planting paint which isn't necessary since the blood relates to Sheila's death while the paint does not.
Planting it would require:
1) obtaining a sample of Sheila's wet blood or knowing her blood type and obtaining a sample of group A blood from somewhere else (most people don't even know their own blood type)
2) knowing exactly what kind of blood distribution back spatter would leave inside a suppressor and using a device to spray said blood into the suppressor so that it was able to leave microscopic droplets on the first 8 baffles and visible flakes of blood on the inside opening and the first 5-7 baffles so that it would replicate what back spatter would look like. The fact of the matte ris that most peopel including most on this site would not have a clue about that and even though the distribuion of blood is described in the court findings most peopel still would probably just drip blood in the opening and not understand the significance of needed to use a device to spray the blood in.
3) If the suppressor had not been attached back spatter would have been in the rifle. Those planting the evidence had to recognize that blood found in the rifle would refute the suppressor was attached so the rifle would have to be cleaned out before it was sent to the lab or the lab would have to lie and pretend no blood was found.
So this means the family alone could not have carried it out, police would have to have carried it out with the family. There would have to be a conspiracy among police and the family.
Aside from a conspiracy you needed peopel to have some detaile dknowledge to be able to pull it off so that it was not able to be detected.
I find it hard to believe anyone figured out both that they would need to spray blood inside and also to elimiante the blood evidence from the murder weapon. There is no evidence to suggest this happened. For court puposes it is necessary to prove a reasonable likelihood that this occurred. Short of that the suppressor evidence is not able to be rebutted.