01-21-2014, 07:30 PM
If Boaz Johnson is indeed guilty, I believe PaulW's account is likely the most assumable timeline of how things likely transpired. Let's hope it happened this simple, but obviously a near majority of forum users have expressed doubts to Boaz's guilt. I won't side with either party, but I will raise a few concerns.
The suicide letter strikes me as odd, and I don't think I'm alone in thinking this. According to the official video release, police claim the notebook (letter) did not go into any detail about the actual "dispute" that Boaz Johnson and Brittant Royal fought about. Police continued to say that the letter only indicated how he killed Brittany Royal, and that he intended to commit suicide.
In my honest opinion, and in accordance to most murder/suicide cases, most suicidal letters left by a murderer are left for the primary reason of either justifying why you committed your crime, or apologizing for the reasons you feel remorse for committing your crime. This suicide letter left absolutely no indication of what the dispute was about, much less trying to justify it or apologize. n the otherhand, it would seem likely that if Boaz Johnson was "forced" to write this letter, likely under threat of torture, the killer(s) would only be interested in making him write explaining two primary things:
A) Admit intention of murder
B) Admit intention of suicide.
Whats missing here is:
C)an elaborate excuse/apology for why he murderd Brittany, and the topic of their dispute that drove him to such desperate acts.
Another thing that bothers me is that police could not answer how exactly he hung himself from the tree. The spokeman seemed quite nervous when it came to that question, and coudn't exactly confirm how the hanging occured. If the autopsy was a complete autopsy, the results would have included how the asphyxiation likely occured, including the possibilities of broken vertebrae, whether the rope could have been tied first-hand,etc etc. Although I'm sure there are answers for this, it's very odd that police obviously have little to no information pertaining to how the body was hung. This would be something they should be able to expertly answer, given a full autopsy.
I'll bring up one final point which strikes me as very strange.
Why would Boaz Johnson casually answer a call from Kalapana Ed hours after the body was found? If Kalapana Ed led investigators to the discovery of Boaz and Brittany's campsite (according to the search warrant), and the body was discovered hours before, why would Boaz Johnson be answering or making any calls at all, particularly from someone that would be very near the crime scene? This certainly isn't a time for a runaway murderer to make casual calls, and it's even more peculiar that such a call was made to a person very involved with assisting police efforts in the search of the campsite.
Furthermore, why would he answer a call from someone in the area that would likely already know that Brittany was discovered and police were searching the area, not to mention someone actively assisting the police in the search.
It doesn't make much sense for Boaz Johnson to make/recieve this call unless he was extremely stupid, or worst, forced to, which would correlate with other efforts to frame him, such as the notebook.
If Boaz was not forced to make any phone calls, a young man in desperate separation would almost certainly make a call to his parents or close friends.
Parents claim they received no call, as do close friends. Yet the one phone call Boaz did make was conveniently to the one person walking around the murder scene and assisting police officials?
That's quite strange, in all honesty. Very convenient, but even more strange.
Also, how did Boaz Johnson make these calls? The search warrants claim he left his cell phone and wallet behind at the scene of the crime. If that's the case, and the cell phone that Boaz Johnson left behind was the only cell phone contracted to his name, how did he make that call? Furthermore, how could that phone be traced? If the call was made from a secondary phone, such as a payphone, how did police confirm it was actually Boaz Johnson making the call? There's a few questions that need to be answered about that.
If this was a well-planned murder for high stakes of money or land, I wouldn't put it past a motivated murderer to force/fake letters and/or phone calls under the duress of torture. In fact, it wouldn't be the first time, at all.
As other users have stated, this may likely end up as another Puna murder that takes years to actually solve. There remains alot of questions, despite todays press conference.
I wish both families the best of luck in finding justice and peace.
The suicide letter strikes me as odd, and I don't think I'm alone in thinking this. According to the official video release, police claim the notebook (letter) did not go into any detail about the actual "dispute" that Boaz Johnson and Brittant Royal fought about. Police continued to say that the letter only indicated how he killed Brittany Royal, and that he intended to commit suicide.
In my honest opinion, and in accordance to most murder/suicide cases, most suicidal letters left by a murderer are left for the primary reason of either justifying why you committed your crime, or apologizing for the reasons you feel remorse for committing your crime. This suicide letter left absolutely no indication of what the dispute was about, much less trying to justify it or apologize. n the otherhand, it would seem likely that if Boaz Johnson was "forced" to write this letter, likely under threat of torture, the killer(s) would only be interested in making him write explaining two primary things:
A) Admit intention of murder
B) Admit intention of suicide.
Whats missing here is:
C)an elaborate excuse/apology for why he murderd Brittany, and the topic of their dispute that drove him to such desperate acts.
Another thing that bothers me is that police could not answer how exactly he hung himself from the tree. The spokeman seemed quite nervous when it came to that question, and coudn't exactly confirm how the hanging occured. If the autopsy was a complete autopsy, the results would have included how the asphyxiation likely occured, including the possibilities of broken vertebrae, whether the rope could have been tied first-hand,etc etc. Although I'm sure there are answers for this, it's very odd that police obviously have little to no information pertaining to how the body was hung. This would be something they should be able to expertly answer, given a full autopsy.
I'll bring up one final point which strikes me as very strange.
Why would Boaz Johnson casually answer a call from Kalapana Ed hours after the body was found? If Kalapana Ed led investigators to the discovery of Boaz and Brittany's campsite (according to the search warrant), and the body was discovered hours before, why would Boaz Johnson be answering or making any calls at all, particularly from someone that would be very near the crime scene? This certainly isn't a time for a runaway murderer to make casual calls, and it's even more peculiar that such a call was made to a person very involved with assisting police efforts in the search of the campsite.
Furthermore, why would he answer a call from someone in the area that would likely already know that Brittany was discovered and police were searching the area, not to mention someone actively assisting the police in the search.
It doesn't make much sense for Boaz Johnson to make/recieve this call unless he was extremely stupid, or worst, forced to, which would correlate with other efforts to frame him, such as the notebook.
If Boaz was not forced to make any phone calls, a young man in desperate separation would almost certainly make a call to his parents or close friends.
Parents claim they received no call, as do close friends. Yet the one phone call Boaz did make was conveniently to the one person walking around the murder scene and assisting police officials?
That's quite strange, in all honesty. Very convenient, but even more strange.
Also, how did Boaz Johnson make these calls? The search warrants claim he left his cell phone and wallet behind at the scene of the crime. If that's the case, and the cell phone that Boaz Johnson left behind was the only cell phone contracted to his name, how did he make that call? Furthermore, how could that phone be traced? If the call was made from a secondary phone, such as a payphone, how did police confirm it was actually Boaz Johnson making the call? There's a few questions that need to be answered about that.
If this was a well-planned murder for high stakes of money or land, I wouldn't put it past a motivated murderer to force/fake letters and/or phone calls under the duress of torture. In fact, it wouldn't be the first time, at all.
As other users have stated, this may likely end up as another Puna murder that takes years to actually solve. There remains alot of questions, despite todays press conference.
I wish both families the best of luck in finding justice and peace.