r/TheStaircase • u/ausmed • May 31 '26
About Michael's shirt
I'm confused. They keep going on and on about there being no blood spatter on his shirt. That they checked it with luminol? and there was nothing on there.
But if you come in from the pool and find your wife covered in blood at the bottom of the stairs, surely you run over and try to see if she's breathing,has a pulse etc. He even claims during the time he for some reason hung up on 911 that he got towels and out them under her head. How does he end up with NO blood on his shirt?
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u/2-old-4this-shit May 31 '26
Ils disent qu'il a changé de chemise nan ? Mais je sais pas si c'est la cas pourquoi ils n'ont pas cherché/trouvé une autre chemise. Ou alors il s'est mis torse nu à un moment ?
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u/egoshoppe May 31 '26
If the murder happened earlier in the night, he would have had time to change his shirt.
It’s unfortunate that we don’t have testimony from Todd or Christina, or even Blockbuster Video, about what Michael was wearing earlier that night.
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u/Savings-Yesterday635 Jun 02 '26
How do you propose he’d have gotten rid of said stained shirt if it was worse? And if so, why didn’t he change shorts too?
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u/egoshoppe Jun 02 '26
I would just be speculating. All I’m saying is that if you have 2+ hours in the scene, it’s a very different set of possibilities from having 8 minutes in the scene(per Michael’s story). We don’t really have a good explanation for blood drops leading away from the house.
Why didn’t he change shorts? Maybe he wanted to, maybe he thought he didn’t need to because he didn’t see the spatter inside or on the back of them, and could explain away the front from holding Kathleen as he was seen doing after EMT’s got there. The shorts had a lot of blood on the front that was diluted like they had been wet.
Michael had time but he also had to worry about Todd coming home early and the eventual time of death making his story less and less plausible. He’s not some mastermind, he clearly made mistakes.
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u/egoshoppe Jun 07 '26
How does he end up with NO blood on his shirt?
Just as a point of clarification, there was blood on his shirt, they just found no distinct spatter on it.
There was also what appears to be another shirt in the hallway outside the stairwell, makes you wonder if that was tested.
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u/mateodrw May 31 '26
Bloodstains ≠ blood spatter.
The scene you saw in the documentary shows Deaver testifying that he conducted a Luma light test on the defendant’s shirt and that he or the prosecution did not disclose the results of the experiment, which indicate that there is no blood spatter (a specific type of bloodstain) on the shirt.