ABSTRACT
The police were in a quandary. On the one hand, the woman's detailed descriptions had correctly pinpointed where the body had been found and the marks that would be found on it. She could not describe the alleged murderers. Also, her concepts of time and place and how long it took to get from one particular house in a built-up city to the rural scene of the crime were woefully inadequate. Mrs Carly Lawrence had also shocked the police by providing information about a further murder she had allegedly been involved with. In the end her evidence was not used in court, although the police had no doubt she had genuine links to the murder. Carly found that the internal murder hurt her far more than the external one she had successfully reported and been validated over.
