The 'Master File'...

[Elizabeth]

Interestingly I'd always had two (guilty) scenarios in my mind...

He took the phone off the hook
He killed them
Went home and cleaned up and composed himself
He then called the police and set the wheels in motion

OR

He killed them
Took the phone off the hook at the last possible moment
Went home
He then called the police and set the wheels in motion
Cleaned himself up in preparation to meet the police (using the drive to compose himself)


One of the issues I have is with the call... Option 1 would be the BEST course of action IF he knew with 100% certainty that BT couldn't give accurate reporting on call information

Option 2 would be be necessary IF he feared BT could give accurate reporting on call information. Not only that, IF he feared such, he'd need an answering machine at the other end in order to ensure the call was logged as having occurred.

Option 1 gives him time to get clean, but increases call detection problems
Option 2 gives him less time to clean, but removes call detection problems, but he also needs to get home as fast as possible in order to avoid leaving a long gap between WHF to Goldhanger call, and Goldhanger to Police call.

IF he chose option 2, there is also another minor risk... that in calling the police, they just happen to be close to Goldhanger and say "we'll pick you up and take you there" - if THAT happened, he's got to get clean VERY rapidly indeed.

TBM - over the years I have read a few times that Jeremy requested the "Police pick him up on the way" in his original call to them. Not sure why he would want that?  Read this in other forums and discussions with no evidence that it is fact (just to clarify!). Apparently the police urged him to make his way there himself and meet them outside which is obviously what happened.

That seems natural to me if he was innocent - who would want to go on their own to a dark place in the early hours of the morning not knowing what they might find when they get there? I'm actually surprised the police told him to go there on his own - after all, there was a risk that he might get injured or killed.

I agree with you, Kaldin. And couldn't that very same reasoning apply to why he drove slowly to the scene, arriving some minutes after the police got there? I've never thought that him driving slowly to WHF went against him, for this very reason. Perhaps there was an innocent explanation for that.

[Kaldin]

I agree with you, Kaldin. And couldn't that very same reasoning apply to why he drove slowly to the scene, arriving some minutes after the police got there? I've never thought that him driving slowly to WHF went against him, for this very reason. Perhaps there was an innocent explanation for that.

Yes, I agree. I can't imagine anyone wanting to get there before the police really. Obviously, if he's innocent, he didn't know if were all dead or if he would find his sister threatening them all with a gun, but even so ...

[Reader]

Some say "on the table" others don't...

In the scullery, according to JB.

[Newbury1]

Some say "on the table" others don't...

In the scullery, according to JB.

In the scullery........ on a settle?

[Kaldin]

Some say "on the table" others don't...

In the scullery, according to JB.

In the scullery........ on a settle?

In the bit next to the back office I think - on a wooden bench.

[clifford]

great post TBM