Jansus, I spend a great deal of time playing devil's advocate because most of the time it isn't my opinion which is needed, but clarification. I started to find that more and more it felt as if I was making excuses for Jeremy. Looking at it closely, I'm finding it increasingly difficult to accept that Neville phoned him with such shocking news but he phones Julie, getting her out of bed at an unholy hour and doesn't mention it, other than cryptically. It started to feel as if he was buying time, as with the delay in calling the police. He seems not to have mentioned the boys when telling the police who was in the house. I can accept that at his age he may not have been too interested in them, but this was a potentially dangerous situation.
Thank you April for your honest answer - I am always interested to see if it is the "bigger picture" or the small details that change peoples minds.
I did see a comment excusing Julie for her reaction on the night because she was confused by being woken up early in the morning and had probably been smoking cannabis , that's why she changed her mind about the timings and the wording of the call. But no one is willing to apply that reasoning to Jeremy. Perhaps he had smoked pot as well and was not really with it , but did not really want to admit that to the police?
It would be interesting to write a timeline of what apparently happened that night between the alleged calls and the police arriving - if we took the original statements from Jeremy and Julie and the police - but unfortunately Julie changing her mind and the police changing theirs means we can really do that.
I still feel that if Jeremy is innocent then Sheila had not started shooting when Neville called - and he did not think she would . He just felt he needed help to calm her .
If Jeremy is guilty - then trying to "set the call" as his alibi seems daft to me - he could just have left them all to be found in the morning - no time of death and the same scenario . And if he was going to use the call I don't think he would have let the police try and confuse him in their questioning because he would have known 100% the time of his call and his call to Julie.
My overwhelming feeling as well is that he would have no way of knowing that as he would be leaving what seems to be such an obviously staged scene that the police would suss out something was wrong straight away - so he would of course be a suspect and therefore his planning would have had to have been so meticulous he would not have made the mistakes that he obviously did.
I know certain posters make a big deal of the bible being on top of the blood and the body having been moved - and I would agree that would be incriminating - but there is the fact that three officers commented about the bible/rifle/head being different in the photos . As much as those comments are being dismissed they did happen and they were experienced officers - why would they comment at all if they did not think there was a problem? If the police moved the body /bible/rifle before the photographs then we are not looking at the original crime scene exactly as it was and I think that
could be possible.
IMO
I respect NEARLY everyones opinions on here . Because as we have to remind ourselves because MOST of what is posted is opinions unless there are documents to back it up.
There I of course one other possible scenario that Jeremy could never admit to because it would mean he is guilty and that is that Julie was actually in on everything from the start and was going to benefit financially - but she decided to turn him in because he jilted her . Don't think it is likely - but then again what is logical about murder - nothing as far as I can see.
