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Originally Posted by yeotaJMU
There is no possible way any reasonable human can make a judgment like that once the evidence has already been tainted
She never saw the bones until they got to her. So how can she say she knows what they would have looked like before they got moved to her to begin with? How can she make any possible inferences about the movement at all?
Q. All right. Now, you did offer an opinion that
you believe the location for the primary burning
episode here was the burn pit behind the garage;
is that correct?
A. That is correct.
Q. Would you please elaborate for us your reasoning
on that?
A. Number one, in the order of priority, would be
that the overwhelming majority of fragments,
burned fragments that were identified by me as
human, were found in that location behind the
garage, in and adjacent to the burn pit, that
there were, in my opinion, many small, delicate,
brittle fragments that would have been left
behind some place else had that not been the
primary burn location.
And if that had been the case, I would
have been able to recognize those fragments from
another location and did not, except for burn
barrel number two. And that all the human bone
fragments that were fragmented and badly burned
from that location, show the same -- the --
approximately the same degree of charring,
burning, and calcination variously throughout the
material recovered in the burn pit and adjacent
areas.
Q. Since you have concluded that the burn pit was
the location of the primary burning episode, tell
us why, in your opinion, burn barrel number two
would not have been?
A. I believe that burn barrel number two would not
have been the primary burn location because I
would have expected to find more bone fragments
that I would have been able to -- bone fragments,
and human bone fragments, and dental structures
that I would have been able to identify as human
in burn barrel number two than actually I was --
than actually were found.
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She can't unless she is a magician
or a forensic anthropologist.
Now let's hear your reasoning for why the bones were "most likely moved to the pit".