[1L]

>>My guess--he'd gotten rid of the old one the night before, because it was drenched in her blood.<<

If this were true, he would have been arrested over a week ago. I doubt, given all the other stuff, he would have done that great a job keeping blood from every other place there.

As of right now, I honestly don't think the police have a clue what happened. That may or may not change, but until the confirm she is actually dead, this case is going nowhere.

[Bonaparte]

"...but until the confirm she is actually dead..."

They don't have to have the body, 1L. Lots of people have been convicted of murder in the absence of any dead body and those convictions have held up.

"If this were true, he would have been arrested over a week ago."

So all the lab and forensics work would have been completed within 24 hours of her death? Including identification of her DNA markers? All the conferencing with the prosecutor's office concerning the likely insanity plea and how the investigation would need to account for that could be accomplished, along with all the rest, within 24 hours of her disappearance?