>My dad owns 2 of those types <BR>>of flashlights and he would definitly <BR>>know if it was his or <BR>>not. But you never know, I'm <BR>>sure they had alot of stuff <BR>>so it is hard to determine <BR>>if they owned it or not. <BR>>I could be wrong... <P>in the suitcase thread? It showed storage shelves on both sides of where the photographer was at. They'd had their older boy living there at one time and it could've been his so they probably didn't know.<P>However, I've always wondered if it WAS from the perp, couldn't they have gotten SOME prints off of it?<P>Good places to look on a flashlight. <BR>1 - anything smooth on the outside. I'm sure the perp thought of that.<BR>2 - batteries - if the batteries were out of the flashlight then the perp thought of that too.<BR>3 - inside on the back of the reflector where you might touch it to get the bulb out if you ever had to replace it - did anyone check that?<BR>4 - the bulb itself. Ever replace a flashlight bulb without touching it? I wonder if they checked that?<P>And of course, WHY did the perp leave the flashlight THERE? Was there any indication that it had been used to create the blow to her head? I read that it did not, so why leave it there? Some I beleive have suggested that the flashlight had nothing to do with the crime and that it was left there as a part of the symbolism, not that I understand it. So we have it that this flashlight appears in the kitchen in the morning, supposedly (from what I remember) it had been taken apart and washed off. So this perp runs water in the house at night. Water running in the pipes can be heard from whatever location there are other pipes. Did the perp not know that, or did he not think about it, or did he not care? Seems like this perp felt comfortable in the house. Why?<P>If someone had come downstairs when he was washing the flashlight (if I did indeed read that right - however, it may have said "cleaned" rather than "washed") who would they have seen? Would they have seen someone they knew, or someone they'd never seen before?<P>These people who creep in the night have got to be really strange when they could be inside a nice coffee shop with other people enjoying the night instead.