How do you then explain the lack of bleeding caused by the cracked skull? The coroner claims the cause of death was asphyxiation, not blunt force trauma.
If, in your theory, Burke was the unintentional culprit then the internal bleeding from the head wound would have surely been more severe.
I am having trouble believing that Karr is the culprit myself but it would seem as if the strangling had to come first followed by the blow to the head if the autopsy (as I understand it) is correct.
Actually, after some discussion on this board I went back and read some of the reports from the forensic pathologists that the Boulder City Police dept. used and the county coroner. First, the head injury was NOT a laceration, so it would not bleed externally. Such an injury, the pathologists stated, was consistent with blunt force trauma against a hard, curved surface such as a bathtub, sink or toilet. Second, there were drag marks on her back, back of her legs and heels. Now, why would an adult drag a 45 lb. child?
According to some of those same pathologists, the asphyxiation actually occured 10 to 45 minutes AFTER the head trauma. That's their finding, not mine.
There were also indications that John Ramsey was ALSO wearing the same clothes from the night before.
I think this puts me back to square one. I'm not willing to attach myself to any conclusion at this point, but I'll just say that again it looks like something weird happened in the home that night; all between family members.