its gruesome to think about but funeral parlor have to break the arms at the elbow to lay the across the chest like they do
Really?? Ewwwwww!!
And on here someone said it's easier to break the bones when the person is dead?
Well, it was you, wasn't it, that gave us the time frame in which rigor mortis sets in? That 5 hours of gradual stiffening leaves plenty of time for someone to get rid of the body!
AHA!!! Fiesti, that gives me an idea! You did say 5 hours, didn't you? It doesn't seem likely to me that he'd have sat up quietly till she'd been asleep for several hours, then have attacked her and killed her. Why would he wait? If he wanted her to be asleep when he attacked her, then surely he wouldn't have had to wait that long... surely she went to bed well b/f midnight. She was tired all the time!
So that means he probably killed her b/f midnight. (Why wait?) So that means that he'd have had to get it all done in the next 5 hours. So, it must've been pretty well done at least a little before 5 a.m.
UNLESS he somehow talked her into going driving in his truck, and killed her at the end of the "drive". That's not likely b/c the police have said they believe she was killed in the house.