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I missed this posting last night - have been hoping to see what happened today, whether Esther remembered to come to court.

This "39 blows" has been aggravating to me, because I can't imagine that Jena heard that or knew that on Saturday evening - unless, of course, Scott really did say it - bursting inside to tell someone what he had done that morning, but not really wanting to, of course, knowing the consequences.

The newspeople reported "39 blows" on 10/20/05. I couldn't find or confirm any earlier articles that stated that. Scott had been arrested the night before, on the evening of 10/19. Unless I missed him "confessing," I'm really really curious to know where "39 blows" came from originally. Scott or LE?

The ME later released info that there had been 26 blows to Pamela's head. That is just to her head, and she was beaten many other places on her body, so perhaps there really were 39 blows total - but only Scott would know that.

If, indeed, he was counting the blows, 1 *wham*, 2 *wham*, 3 *bam* - that's bizarre enough in itself, but since he *is* bizarre, then I want to know what the "39" signified. When they re-asked Jena about her testimony of "36 or 39" blows and she said she didn't know for sure if he said "36," I took it to mean she *did* remember the specific number "39."

So, does that number have some kind of significance? Especially to Scott. If so, that's one more nail in the coffin, so to speak. It doesn't escape one's attention that when Jena said "36," one newspaper reported it as "three dozen."

The number "39" is a multiple of "13," what we know as an unlucky number - also the number of Judas Iscariot among Jesus's apostles, so it was "three 13's". I hope some other explanation of this comes out in the testimony.

But what's especially spooky is that he had repeated the Lizzie Borden rhyme that night. "Lizzie Borden took an ax -and gave her mother 40 whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41."

OK - why "39" then? One less than Lizzie's "40" - why? Scott claimed to know how many blows it would take to kill someone and cause them to die agonizingly and painfully.

Did he think "39" blows wouldn't kill Pamela? He didn't "leave her for dead," he knew she was, when he stabbed her in the abdomen and carved on her back.

I'm just blown away (oops, didn't mean to pun) by this guy's cruelty and total inhumanity.