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Barry Shnikov · 9th-February-2006, 09:52 PM

As I understand it, Billie Jo was painting the patio doors, or something like that, and was murdered with a tent peg.

Clearly the police never turned up anybody likely to have been there – boyfriend, schoolfriend – and who would have been an unsurprising arrival for Billie Jo explaining why she was just where she was when her body was found.

So the Sion Jenkins supporters would have us believe that a person or persons unknown came around the back of the house (of course, with some houses that’s easy, you just walk down the side; but other houses have fences with gates or doors), walked up to her, grabbed the tent peg and beat her to death with it.

They point to someone who is referred to as ‘mentally ill’, and alleged to be fascinated with putting plastic across his nose and mouth. His nose and mouth, mind.

I’m afraid I don’t buy that. I don’t know of one other case anywhere at all in which someone is killed at the rear of their own home for no obvious motive (e.g. burglary). It just doesn’t stand up. Murderers usually have an agenda, they want a particular person dead; the so-called ‘motiveless’ (or serial) killers actually have a motive, it’s just a non-sense motive, like killing all college girls with long blonde hair, or something like that. Most serial killers are opportunists – they take what comes their way, they don’t go creeping around houses on the off-chance that they’ll find a victim. Even Ted Bundy – who would dress up in artificial plaster casts in order to ask sympathetic girls for help – would take whichever girl that fit his template who happened to be passing, he didn’t set out to kill particular girls. (Spot the difference with slasher films.)

And as for the ‘mentally ill’ guy. Is he criminally insane? There doesn’t seem to be any suggestion that he is. So if that’s the case, why would he suddenly wander around their house and then murder a girl who was unknown to him? (Maybe the ‘supporters’ have these explanations – I haven’t seen them.)

Jenkins’ original conviction was overturned, and subsequently it hasn’t been proved beyond reasonable doubt that he killed his stepdaughter. But I’ll be b()ggered if there are any other prime candidates.

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Barry Shnikov Registered User Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Southampton Posts: 5,846 Status: No Status Rep Power: 4 Rep.: 1226	Who killed Billie Jo? As I understand it, Billie Jo was painting the patio doors, or something like that, and was murdered with a tent peg. Clearly the police never turned up anybody likely to have been there – boyfriend, schoolfriend – and who would have been an unsurprising arrival for Billie Jo explaining why she was just where she was when her body was found. So the Sion Jenkins supporters would have us believe that a person or persons unknown came around the back of the house (of course, with some houses that’s easy, you just walk down the side; but other houses have fences with gates or doors), walked up to her, grabbed the tent peg and beat her to death with it. They point to someone who is referred to as ‘mentally ill’, and alleged to be fascinated with putting plastic across his nose and mouth. His nose and mouth, mind. I’m afraid I don’t buy that. I don’t know of one other case anywhere at all in which someone is killed at the rear of their own home for no obvious motive (e.g. burglary). It just doesn’t stand up. Murderers usually have an agenda, they want a particular person dead; the so-called ‘motiveless’ (or serial) killers actually have a motive, it’s just a non-sense motive, like killing all college girls with long blonde hair, or something like that. Most serial killers are opportunists – they take what comes their way, they don’t go creeping around houses on the off-chance that they’ll find a victim. Even Ted Bundy – who would dress up in artificial plaster casts in order to ask sympathetic girls for help – would take whichever girl that fit his template who happened to be passing, he didn’t set out to kill particular girls. (Spot the difference with slasher films.) And as for the ‘mentally ill’ guy. Is he criminally insane? There doesn’t seem to be any suggestion that he is. So if that’s the case, why would he suddenly wander around their house and then murder a girl who was unknown to him? (Maybe the ‘supporters’ have these explanations – I haven’t seen them.) Jenkins’ original conviction was overturned, and subsequently it hasn’t been proved beyond reasonable doubt that he killed his stepdaughter. But I’ll be b()ggered if there are any other prime candidates.