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Originally Posted by lkasigh
Her car, body, and possessions were found on the Avery property. It's also the last place she was seen, the last place her cell phone pinged from. She had an appointment there the day she disappeared and she failed to make it to the next scheduled appointment. Yes, there are missing pieces surrounding the exact time and circumstances of the murder, but this narrative still has far fewer missing pieces (i.e., unproven assumptions) than the competing narrative. This is true even if you add in the assumption that the guy saying he saw her car driving away made a mistake (or saw a similar but unrelated car).
One thing missing from the above narrative is that we are under no obligation to
assume anything.
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The competing narratives require multiple unproven assumptions - her leaving the area, being killed somewhere else, then the car, body, and possessions being brought back, someone planting the blood and bullet, Dassey making up a story about seeing Avery kill her and burn her body, and so forth.
A competing narrative that includes Teresa leaving is verified by several witnesses. So even if it is true that she did not make her next appointment doesn't compel us to
assume she was killed on the Avery property and
assume the witnesses were lying or mistaken.
Teresa could very well have been killed elsewhere, and this is supported by the fact that no murder site was positively identified despite intensive efforts by police to locate one on the Avery property. Making the unsupported
assumption that Teresa was killed there despite this evidence is a gross violation of Occam's Razor.
Of course, it appears to be
assumed that somehow all the expected evidence of the binding, gang raping, stabbing and throat cutting, and shooting multiple times was somehow completely erased. Despite the fact that no evidence of any such cleanup was detected.
This was a place of business, and the crime is
assumed to have begun during business hours. And several people also lived in proximity. Plus some friends arrived to pick up Brendan's brother that night.
The fact that no one heard any of this alleged screaming and shooting, and no one witnessed Steven and Brendan traipsing around the neighborhood carrying a corpse, or driving the RAV4 all over the property are also facts that under your scenario must be dealt with by further
assumptions.
And while all this was supposed to be going on, the fact that the accused were fielding telephone calls all evening long must be accounted for. I suppose the
assumption must be that the
assumed assault and massive cleanup somehow fit in between all these telephone calls.
Dassey didn't make up the story - police fed it to him line by line (as evidenced in the interrogations that were recorded). That is a fact that must also be accounted for.
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This is Occam's razor in the basic form.
Occam's Razor is not a device to eliminate inconvenient facts. You are doing it wrong.