Sheila's feet

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The cordless phone (with last call facility) was faulty and sent back to the manufacturer two days before.  Have asked before, but no-one seems to know/have responded as to who found the fault or returned the phone.
Likewise, its return. Can't find any documentation as to the nature of the eventual repair.
This was given as the reason the bedroom phone was bought downstairs. A fortunate coincidence for whoever did the shooting upstairs.
Presumably, the phone hidden under clutter was either faulty or forgotten.

Re blood spatter etc
If Sheila is the killer, we have to accept the 'washing' theory, then wonder about the evidence in respect of the shower/bath, towels, clothes etc.
We all accept that blood analysis is radically different now - in the UK specialist courses weren't on offer until 1988 - but I guesstimate that the initial 'suicide/murder' interpretation resulted in less analysis being undertaken than was the norm for 'murder' back then.     

[chelmsey]

Sheila was described as being "very clean". Ann Eaton described in her statement that the shower had been used as the shower head wasnt put back in its usual position.In her usual suspicious manner,she speculated whether Jeremy had used it to wash the blood off himself but I doubt very much he would have casually done that at the scene of the murders.If Sheila had got "caught short" that day with her period,then it would have IMO been likely that she would have took a shower,putting her smalls in soak etc.I dont know if it is just me,but alot of women prefer to sleep in pjs as opposed to a nightdress when they have they period.As a kind of safety feeling against leakage if you know what I mean? Which leads me again back to the item of clothing hanging on the bannisters!

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Sheila was described as being "very clean". Ann Eaton described in her statement that the shower had been used as the shower head wasnt put back in its usual position.In her usual suspicious manner,she speculated whether Jeremy had used it to wash the blood off himself but I doubt very much he would have casually done that at the scene of the murders.If Sheila had got "caught short" that day with her period,then it would have IMO been likely that she would have took a shower,putting her smalls in soak etc.I dont know if it is just me,but alot of women prefer to sleep in pjs as opposed to a nightdress when they have they period.As a kind of safety feeling against leakage if you know what I mean? Which leads me again back to the item of clothing hanging on the bannisters!

I agree, though trying to remember if PJs were as common for women back in 85? I'm guessing they were, but all my memories are of nightdresses.

Having spent ages looking at the 'garment' on the bannisters, I am fairly sure that they are tights rather than leggings.

I can go with the washing/redressing theory to a point - there's plenty of cases that evidence women putting together their 'best self' before committing suicide. Do if Sheila carried out the killings then carefully washed and re-dressed, why not put on a pair of knickers? The two things do not sit comfortably together. 

[lebaleb]

There was a towel found in the kitchen. It was on top of neville's blood therefore put there after Neville's death. Not by police because Neville's blood would be dry by that time. Could it have been Shiela drying herself after washing??
What kind of hit man would kill 5 people including 2 children for 2000 pounds??? That's way too cheap. Not that I know anything about hitmen. If it were more, where did Jeremy get that kind of cash? I think the hitman theory is a red herring.

[chelmsey]

There was a towel found in the kitchen. It was on top of neville's blood therefore put there after Neville's death. Not by police because Neville's blood would be dry by that time. Could it have been Shiela drying herself after washing??
What kind of hit man would kill 5 people including 2 children for 2000 pounds??? That's way too cheap. Not that I know anything about hitmen. If it were more, where did Jeremy get that kind of cash? I think the hitman theory is a red herring.

That is interesting about the towel! Though there were said to be things drying over the aga and it could have been pulled down from there.Do you know,for the first time ever,Im almost convinced that JB did not do it.No disrespect to him but IMO he comes across as too gutless.

[lebaleb]

The towel couldn't have been pulled down by Neville as it was on top of a pool of his blood.

[Reader]

Not by police because Neville's blood would be dry by that time.

It doessn't follow that the police didn't put it there.