So what did the murderer do with the murder weapon? Schiller says this has never been released to the public.
Wasn't it the paintbrush? Used in the garote.
She was killed with the garotte. Death was by strangulation. The garotte was found tied around her neck and looped around her wrist. The blow to her head was post mortem. A baseball bat was found in the alley behind the house. The idea of the flashlight was posited because the depression at the front of her skull matches the shape of the flashlight.