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Leigh Occhi: What Do You Think Happened?
Posted on 7/17/22 at 9:01 pm
Posted on 7/17/22 at 9:01 pm
All That’s Intersting
A common theory is that Leigha was dead before the mother ever went to work and that the mother’s call home and return home was all just a ruse to establish an alibi.
Any thoughts?
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Leigh Occhi vanished in 1992 while staying home alone for the first time, and the only evidence police ever found was her blood-soaked nightgown and a mysterious package containing her glasses that arrived in the mail a few weeks later. On the morning of August 27, 1992, Leigh Occhi awoke to the sound of her mother, Vickie Felton, getting ready for work. The dark threat of Hurricane Andrew was hovering over the quiet town of Tupelo, Mississippi. The blond, horse-loving eighth-grader was in her final days of summer break and scheduled to attend an open house at her new school with her grandparents later that day — but she never made it there. Occhi was staying home alone unsupervised for the first time that morning. Hurricane Andrew had been downgraded to a tropical storm, but when a strong band of rain came through Tupelo shortly into Felton’s work shift, she called home to check on her daughter. There was no answer.
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Felton rushed back home, but Leigh Occhi had vanished. The only traces of her left behind were smears of her blood in the hallway and small pools of it on the carpet. Neighbors hadn’t seen or heard anything. She was simply gone. The investigation that followed would confound police at every turn.
A common theory is that Leigha was dead before the mother ever went to work and that the mother’s call home and return home was all just a ruse to establish an alibi.
Any thoughts?
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Posted on 7/17/22 at 9:11 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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This post was edited on 7/17/22 at 9:13 pm
Posted on 7/17/22 at 9:11 pm to UndercoverBryologist
quote:I’ve been to Booneville
Police tested every part of the package but found no fingerprints or further clues. Even the seal and stamps had been moistened with water, not saliva. It was postmarked from Booneville, a town 30 miles away.
it could’ve been me
Posted on 7/17/22 at 9:15 pm to Bubb
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Bubb
To answer your question, even though you deleted it, the body was never found, so time of death can’t be conclusively proved.
Timeline: Mother went to work between 7:30 and 8:00, called the daughter to warn about the storm at 8:30, didn’t get a response, and drove back and found the house empty (minus the blood soaked night gown) at 9:00.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 9:19 pm to FearlessFreep
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I’ve been to Booneville
“Corinth is a fine town.”
Posted on 7/17/22 at 9:20 pm to UndercoverBryologist
I deleted it after I read it about the mom coming back at 8:30am, not after work. So the time wasn't much difference, but I meant by aging the blood, congealing etc.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 9:20 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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A common theory is that Leigha was dead before the mother ever went to work and that the mother’s call home and return home was all just a ruse to establish an alibi.
Occam's Razor
Posted on 7/17/22 at 9:26 pm to Bubb
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but I meant by aging the blood, congealing etc.
I’m not holding out much hope that the detectives thought to record the rate of congealing of the blood or thought to take a photograph and send it down to the blood expert in the Jackson state crime lab to get a fix on the time, until it was too late...this is Mississippi after all.
But in any case, you’re right. Whether the mother did it at 7:30 or an intruder did it at 8:00, it’s not going to make much difference.
That being said, if the rate of congealing established a minimum of 5 hours since the murder, it blows the mother’s story out of the water since she established having seen the daughter before she left.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 9:30 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Burke Ramsey did it
Posted on 7/17/22 at 9:35 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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Kearns has continually refused to speak with police and the FBI about Leigh Occhi’s disappearance.
This guy fits in every way.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 10:03 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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This guy fits in every way.
He has a rape and kidnapping on his record, that’s a fact, but that’s all the more reason to probably not hold his lack of cooperation against him since he could have just been dodging further inquiry into the crimes he knew he was guilty of while just so happening to be innocent of the Occhi crime.
Meanwhile, the mother failed all 3 polygraphs given to her. That may not be admissible in court, but it’s got to be statistically unlikely for a truthful person to fail 3 times.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 11:04 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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“I had no idea there was blood and stuff like that,” he continued. And in a separate interview with true crime blogger Anthony Wayne, he clarified, “The day after it happened, all she said was Leigh was ‘missing’… A couple of days later she called with the details of the blood and everything else.”
That's fricking weird. How do you call the father to tell him your child is missing, and not mention for a few days that there was blood in the house?
That's as suspicious as the failed polygraphs IMO.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 11:09 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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The dark threat of Hurricane Andrew was hovering over the quiet town of Tupelo, Mississippi.
They make it seem like Tupelo is a coast town… it’s 300 miles inland
Posted on 7/17/22 at 11:13 pm to Lawyered
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The dark threat of Hurricane Andrew was hovering over the quiet town of Tupelo, Mississippi.
They make it seem like Tupelo is a coast town… it’s 300 miles inland
Hurricane Andrew was a Cat 5 hurricane that made landfall practically due south of Tupelo. Not that big of a stretch to say that the thunderstorms that spun-off from Andrew as it moved inland were gnarlier than your typical inland thunderstorm.
Posted on 7/17/22 at 11:13 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Wtf is this murdered child day Jesus
Posted on 7/17/22 at 11:29 pm to nvasil1
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That's fricking weird. How do you call the father to tell him your child is missing, and not mention for a few days that there was blood in the house? That's as suspicious as the failed polygraphs IMO.
To be fair to the mother, the father is not a what you might call a “reliable narrator.” He has his biases in that he and the mother were divorced and it was apparently not amicable. (For the record, he had a solid alibi in that he was in New Jersey at the time.)
So who know if he is telling the truth or purposefully forgetting what she had told him in a bid to draw suspicion to her out of spite.
This post was edited on 7/17/22 at 11:32 pm
Posted on 7/18/22 at 12:26 am to UndercoverBryologist
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To be fair to the mother, the father is not a what you might call a “reliable narrator.” He has his biases in that he and the mother were divorced and it was apparently not amicable. (For the record, he had a solid alibi in that he was in New Jersey at the time.)
So who know if he is telling the truth or purposefully forgetting what she had told him in a bid to draw suspicion to her out of spite.
Fair point, but the article does cite two separate interviews where he says the same thing.
Maybe that's just his story and he's sticking to it. But it seems like an oddly specific thing to make up or misremember for spite, no matter how rocky the relationship is.
The mom's alleged timeline of that morning and the failed polygraphs were already enough to draw suspicion to her.
Posted on 7/18/22 at 6:46 am to UndercoverBryologist
Suppose there could have been some psychopath traveling through town and picked the house....it happens like The Cross Contry Killer, odds are though a person close to her did it.
Posted on 7/18/22 at 7:06 am to nvasil1
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The mom's alleged timeline of that morning and the failed polygraphs were already enough to draw suspicion to her.
Mom was also an interrogator, trained by the US Army, and the father said she was smarter than police. Her failing 1 local, and 2 FBI polygraphs, is interesting. I would like to know, specifically, what she was asked, and what she failed on.
2 ratchet straps, a long, 1/8" drill bit, and a fully charged Dewalt would have her begging to tell the truth aboot what happened to the girl.
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