Of course they do but they were unable to get their story straight. Even now you have BW stating that she saw the silencer with blood on it. I'm certainly not buying that.
They couldn't recall whether BW saw it or not because it wasn't significant. They admit she was there so she could very well have seen it. If there were some grand conspiracy then they would have said she saw it and police would have made sure they had her put such in her statement. They didn't need her or Cock to put it in their statements because they had the statements from the person who found it and the people who were given custody of it and turned it over to police. that is all that was needed.
You have not posted anything rational to challenge the moderator with at all the most you do is post you choose not to accept it though you can't find anything to actually use to attack it. What you choose to believe makes no difference at all. In a debate what matters is what evidence can be brought to bear.
People keep saying they are not suggesting the family planted the blood but choose not to believe the moderator evidence. To be able to rationally discount the moderator one has to believe the evidence was planted and would need to set forth who they think did it and how.
What I see are people who don't want to accept the moderator evidence and are struggling to find a way to justify what they choose to believe as opposed to following the evidence where it leads.
If police decided to plant evidence in the moderator they would simply have made up finding it themselves prior to turning the house over to the family. By rights they should have taken all the firearms related materials anyway. Telling the family to lie would make no sense at all. In the meantime the evidence it was analyzed in the lab and paint and human blood found on July 13 and the police notified the 14th is ironclad. I see no one able to deal with such.
The only one who has come up with a plausible planting scenario that takes all the evidence into account is me. That scenario requires:
1) the family to have planted human blood in the opening, on the face and paint on the knurled edge so that the lab was able to find such on July 13.
2) the lab to have planted more blood on the 8 baffles ad the flake in between baffles 1 and 2 in order to simulate drawback
3) conceal that blood was found inside the rifle muzzle
So there needs to have been 2 distinct plantings of evidence and a concealing of blood found in the rifle.
No one who wants to discount the moderator wants to face this because they know the chances to 2 plantings occurring are so remote.
People who want to discount it raise some cloud of suspicion which is a amorphous, non-specific and unclear. That demonstrates not only speculation but ill defined speculation to boot.
My scenario is surely speculation because there is no evidence it occurred but at least it is a well thought out speculation which if there were evidence to prove then it would actually undermine the moderator and since I constructed it around the evidence this makes it plausible in the theoretical sense.