I believe he is guilty but one thing I want to point out is that according to weather history it was actually very warm on December 8 and about 55F in the middle of the night on the 9th. While that would be way to chilly for me to wear shorts outside, Michael did get that detail correct. And if it was 75F during the day, it makes sense if he says he was wearing shorts, he could have had them from earlier.

https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KRDU/2001/12/8/DailyHistory.html?req_city=&req_state=&req_statename=&reqdb.zip=&reqdb.magic=&reqdb.wmo=

> Okay. It was December. Nothing was mentioned about the temperature that night but I’ve lived in Durham NC and it might have been cold in December, too cold for just walking down to stand by a pool and chat when you could do it up on the patio out of the wind. Was it cold or not? I guess I’d expect him to mention that.

At 3:00 am on 12/09/2001 it was 53 degrees at Raleigh-Durham Airport. Not bad, honestly.

> I know it sounds ridiculous that he used a whip, maybe not as ridiculous as the owl theory

Hmm, now that's interesting. I think I'd say Whip Theory is more ridiculous than Owl Theory, but I admit, it is close.

Let's find out what people think.

Vote: https://www.strawpoll.me/16057306

As a cigar smoker who lives in Virginia, I am out here in my shorts smoking cigars with any temperature over 50. At trial it was stated it was a balmy evening for that time of year.

https://www.wunderground.com/history/airportfrompws/KRDU/2001/12/9/DailyHistory.html?&reqdb.zip=&reqdb.magic=&reqdb.wmo=

According to this site, the weather that day was high of 57 low of 42. Doesn't seem "balmy" but that is well within my cigar smoking temps.

Just seeing her stupid face with that tight-lipped frown and thin eyebrows in the documentary made me physically revolt. Seriously had to look away a few times because of her.

Ugh. https://tinyurl.com/ybrvepw7

I am sure that 42 degrees was the wee hours low on the research doc I was given with a metric ton of minutiae on it (sunset, sunrise, temps, where everyone in the family was at every given point who have known whereabouts and alibis, etc.) and the number stood out to me given the attire (which I was assured was not necessarily out of place on an “unseasonably warm” NC night), but I don’t believe they had some kind of special access any different than what’s publicly available and per your comment I just looked it up myself and see that it was late night on December 9th into December 10th (i.e. technically the 10th or the night after her murder) that it was 42 degrees a few minutes prior to the 911 call time of day.

You are right, per what I was just able to Google anyway, that at that same point—the relevant one to the question here—in the wee hours of December 8th into 9th, it was indeed 52 degrees.

https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/nc/morrisville/KRDU/date/2001-12-9

It was a physical hard copy I had with all that info so I can’t reference it now but I’m sure it’s my error of memory rather than their error of correct data entry. I think it was just headlined under “Dec 9” rather than “Dec 8” as the 8th was what we treated as the “night of her death.”

My mistake and my apologies. Thanks for the correction.

Sorry, I heard it on Reddit. Because one of KP’s sisters gave family households the same blow poke gift, it shouldn’t be too hard to find a picture. The picture of the tip was a curved piece (in the shape of a talon, strangely) welded to a collar. I’ll keep looking and post back. Here’s a random one I found…with talon-like claw end.

Firedragon: Blow Poke Fireplace Tool https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BYRP9Y/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_3VD5G5SF115P2G2X4S8R

They were outside by the pool on the night of the 8th though, not the 9th. Not to mention, it could be cold at night/morning, then warm up significantly during the day . So its kind of irrelevant that the 9th was the warmest day of the month as this event technically took place on the 8th. I did a quick google search, and while it was difficult to find the weather from 2001, this was what I could find
https://www.wunderground.com/history/airportfrompws/KRDU/2001/12/8/DailyHistory.html

On the 8th, at around midnight, it says the weather was around 54 degrees fahrenheit (12.2c). Maybe I found a BS site, I don't know (though it has a source) . Either way, it doesn't change the rest of what I said about his actions

https://www.wunderground.com/history/airportfrompws/KRDU/2001/12/9/WeeklyHistory.html

(interestingly defaults to December 2001!) says average temperature was 63. Not to argue anything else, but a bottle of wine and a t-shirt would not be out of the question.