09-07-2020, 09:25 PM
Pg 304-305
"The critical pineapple evidence was discussed by another detective. "The $118,000 question is this: When and where was that fresh pineapple consumed?" he asked. There were three theories-that she ate it before leaving the house at 5 P.M., at the Whites', or after she returned home.
If the fruit was consumed before she left for the Whites' party, then given the rate of digestion that obviously stopped with her death, the evidence would indicate that she was probably killed shortly after she arrived home. This would have been the very outside edge of the time frame for the time of death. An intruder would have been incredibly bold to do it this way as the rest of the family prepared for bed.
We knew pineapple was not served at the Whites' party, which ruled out the second option.
That would indicate that she ate it between the time she returned home about 10 P.M. and the time she died. But if that were the case, then she wasn't carried straight to bed, asleep, as her parents claimed. She ate the pineapple, it was digested, and then she was killed. This was the only way the evidence made sense.
Another part to the theory that she ate it after returning home seemed even more incredible to me. This scenario would have her awakened sometime during the night after being put to bed, eating the pineapple, digesting it for two to five hours, and then being killed by an intruder at some time before Patsy found the note.
MY COMMENT - - Thomas thought the pineapple had been eaten before leaving home - - and his BORG self accepted it because he could make it, in his mind, point to the parents.
His thought was that the murder must have taken place shortly after the family got home (in order for the pineapple to be where it was in the digestive system) and that it was not some incredibly bold intruder but an angry Mom.
"The critical pineapple evidence was discussed by another detective. "The $118,000 question is this: When and where was that fresh pineapple consumed?" he asked. There were three theories-that she ate it before leaving the house at 5 P.M., at the Whites', or after she returned home.
If the fruit was consumed before she left for the Whites' party, then given the rate of digestion that obviously stopped with her death, the evidence would indicate that she was probably killed shortly after she arrived home. This would have been the very outside edge of the time frame for the time of death. An intruder would have been incredibly bold to do it this way as the rest of the family prepared for bed.
We knew pineapple was not served at the Whites' party, which ruled out the second option.
That would indicate that she ate it between the time she returned home about 10 P.M. and the time she died. But if that were the case, then she wasn't carried straight to bed, asleep, as her parents claimed. She ate the pineapple, it was digested, and then she was killed. This was the only way the evidence made sense.
Another part to the theory that she ate it after returning home seemed even more incredible to me. This scenario would have her awakened sometime during the night after being put to bed, eating the pineapple, digesting it for two to five hours, and then being killed by an intruder at some time before Patsy found the note.
MY COMMENT - - Thomas thought the pineapple had been eaten before leaving home - - and his BORG self accepted it because he could make it, in his mind, point to the parents.
His thought was that the murder must have taken place shortly after the family got home (in order for the pineapple to be where it was in the digestive system) and that it was not some incredibly bold intruder but an angry Mom.