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The odd death of Michelle Von Emster (theories)

Okay people, I haven’t yet written about this one so let’s do this.

I honestly think this was without a doubt, a murder case. A planned homicide, either driven by passion or revenge. The facts and hints of this case are way too specific for it to have been an accident.

I will start to explain why but let’s start from some interesting facts about the victim:

she quit a job due to a persistent stalker who by the way rode a motorcycle

she was known to have been living in a neighborhood related to drug activity addressed as the ‘war-zone’.

now to what we know about the investigation:

her injuries were located on various parts of her body. one of her legs was missing basically as if ripped off to the bone, like in a bamboo stick stripped down with a knife until to a point, her neck broken as if she had been in a car wreck, broken ribs as well as scrapes, bruises and contusions, and sand inside her mouth, throat, lungs and stomach.

the experts said that the bite of a white shark would’ve been clean and unmistakably have left vestiges of a tooth on her missing leg, and there was none found. and the only shark that could’ve done that was this species

the injuries were inflicted when she was still alive, thus excluding those from potential drowning. which means, she suffered the injuries, then drowned and bled to death until she was found.

Blue sharks did feed off her already made injuries when her body was already floating dead on the water.

Her purse was found 2.5 miles away from her body, in the sand of the base of the seawall. it contained her driver’s license, makeup, keys, paste stub, and a fanny pack containing 27$ in cash. bizarrely, the purse was found on a heavily used stretch of beach which means that it’s very unprobable that the purse sat there for 24 hours without any of the money or the purse gone. which means someone could have been keeping watch over it and make sure no one would interfere, indeed murdering michelle and planting the purse there to make it look like an accident. and if Michelle was found with sand inside her body it could have been possible if it were to be in the shoreline of the beach.

 the night before her death it was claimed that Michelle had drinks with one of the suspects, Edwin Decker, after they flirted for weeks, then went to kiss in his apartment and left at 5am from there in a cab. Albeit Decker also mentioned a friend sleeping nearby his apartment that night.

what some of the theories Ryan mentioned in the episode were (excluding the shark attack because it is obvious the shark wasn’t the cause of her death):

 Some believe she may have fallen off the cliff to her death, then drowned due to the injuries she presented. However, from the way the cliff is shaped, and even from such a fall, ripping off a leg in such a meticulous way would’ve been too perfect when falls from cliffs usually present random injuries in any part of the body that might’ve had contact upon hitting the harsh surface and full of irregular shapes and forms formed by nature.

She was murdered. This is the most likely scenario and the most plausable with all the facts and hints we have from this case, if we also take in account not only the physical but psychological evidence.

ANd with that I’ll get into my theory:

It was a combination of a bit of all three theories, but undoubtedly this was a murder case.

here’s how I think the murderer could have proceeded :

The murderer somehow encountered Michelle. Either planned or not is a possibility.

 Although, let’s focus on this one quote from Edwin Decker who, affirmed that Michelle often surfed naked by the latter’s own words. If this is true or he simply made that up we can’t know for sure, because he could very well also stalk her, but since he claims also that he had been flirtatious or even went as far as to the stage of kissing with her at his place this could have been very well normal. Until he mentioned:

Although, regarding seeing Michelle swim naked in that beach, surfers claim to never have seen her do so.

This could suggest Michelle and him had just been hanging out on casual dating, and not officially as a couple as it was hinted by Decker’s words that the relationship wasn’t clear. Therefore, we could assume that if it wasn’t clear either they were friends with benefits and Decker was very obsessed to a point where he even wrote that creepy poem probably implying that he wanted something more. what also bothers me is that the description of the poem was very perturbing :

Writing a poem in itself is not an uncommon practice to mourn the dead, but a sane, empathetic person would not focus on the lustful parts of the person in question when mourning them, instead only an obsessed person would. much as likely in a stalker like manner.

He also asked however for Michelle’s case, in 2008, to be re-examined. Let’s think about this. After the crime had been committed in 1994, why after so many years does he think of re-examining the case? Probable motive? to hide a piece of evidence perhaps, to ommit or confirm something.´

For these motives, I could see Edwin Decker as a highly likely suspect. Even more than the stalker claimed to have followed Michelle from another workplace to there. 

We don’t have however much information about this stalker, all that we know is that, besides stalking her, he often appeared at her workplace and that he requested all the copies of her autopsy. Could there have been an ulterior motive to request such copies when he was stalking her? Michelle as far as we know was not a wealthy person to be blackmailed, but perhaps she could know something she shouldn’t and therefore was being stalked somehow.

 however, most people who know too much are usually silenced, and the fact Michelle had been running away from a stalker but also be living in a neighborhood known for drugs is something that might have a connection to it. Although this we would have to access for ourselves in the site and ask witnesses and unfortunately only the authorities could do that. 

And what also seems very weird about this was that, they claimed the stalker asked for the copies of the autopsy which meant that firstly, they knew he was her stalker, and secondly, they also knew his identity. And autopsies are not just given away so easily to just anyone, much less to someone’s stalker so either: 

a) Michelle’s stalker was a relative or someone acquainted enough to have power to ask for those said autopsies, and wanted his identity to remain unknown to the press.

b) The responsible for those autopsies was in this together with  the stalker or  with both the suspects. 

c) the responsible for the autopsies was bribed or menaced.

 Also an interesting fact is that Michelle was found naked at the time of her death’sn announcement, when the body was found on the beach. There were no signals of any other kind of harm besides the injuries forementioned earlier, which meant that if indeed she had gone swimming naked and carrying a purse, dressed in a trench coat, , Michelle’s murder was therefore conducted as the following :

the murderer was with Michelle at the beach at night. possibly this theory would suggest both of them were acquainted enough and perhaps even taking a stride at night, when the murderer took a dvantage of Michelle's trust and started attacking her as he tried to murder her and Michelle struggled with them leavin g the bruises and scrapes she had on her body trying to repeal the attack.

Then the murderer hit Michelle with something hard enough used as the murder weapon that could inflict injury heavy enough to give her a broken neck and ribs similar to ones found in a car crash to put her unconscious and/or to stop struggling.

to make sure Michelle would not indeed fight off anymore once awoken she was dragged off near the shoreline, forced to ingest the massive amount of sand  into her lungs, stomach , throat and mouth somehow,

when Michelle couldn’t struggle anymore the murderer proceeded to cut off her leg in her already inanimate body, perhaps burying it in the sand to hide it, and give off the impression of a shark attack. although this demonstrated the lack of knowledge about the area’s sharks and their capacity or not to rip off the leg and the obvious nature of the bite which would have left tooth and a clean bite as the experts said. an attempt to therefore fool the police.

the final steps being  the body was pushed to the water left, to be found by the sharks and locals to give the impression of a shark attack provoked by a possible drowning or fall as the waves pushed the body around as he removed the clothes and planted the purse, before leaving the site., 

the problem is like Ryan said how come neither the money or bag was stolen? because if the murderer had been keeping watch over the bag for the night he could have soon be found by someone and interrogated about it. considering the rocky area the beach gave the murderer could have been hidden perhaps but still...how didn’t the bag get stolen or the money either?

The way I see it and knowing all the victim’s habits, the suspect and culprit for me could have very well  been Decker because he could  have lied about seeing michelle off in the cab and going home, instead also  going in the cab or drove her  to the beach per request of either of both of them, accompanied her to the beach , killed her,  got rid of the murder weapon in the sea, washed his hands off the blood in the ame sea water, planted the purse and left the  victim to die.  then when asked by police told a different story to prove his alibi. A reminder that he mentioned that Michelle had told him she liked to surf naked, so this could very well be a hint for it. . 

However without also knowing the stalker’s background story we can’t prove which  one of them could have been the real murderer. And for what reason . Which  is why it will probably  remain unsolved.

WHat do you think was missed in this theory? comment or reblog your opinions!