I disregarded her comment on my flirting as I knew she was stressed as we all were.  She was usually better at hiding it than she had been able to as of late.  Ironically enough the reason I was being so flirtatious with her was because I was trying to ease her tension, although I was a flirt I did lay it on a little heavy this morning.<br/><br/>Her answers puzzled me  "Major how can you tell jewelry was taken if you don't even know where it was taken from?  Here, see this spaghetti line around her neck.  This tells us she had a necklace taken.  Probably a rather cheap one, as she did not reserve it for special occasions, but instead wore it all the time.  She looks like she spent a good deal of time outside wearing shirts that exposed the upper portion of her neck.  Just like the the white band around her finger tells us she had a ring taken, this spaghetti line around her neck tells us she had a necklace taken.  The jewelry blocked the sun from tanning those areas of her body where the jewelry was worn.  All of the victims had at least one ring taken, three had watches taken, and this one had a necklace and a ring taken.  It is possible they had other jewelry taken but just jewelry that was not worn often enough to leave bands where the sun was kept from coloring the skin."<br/><br/>"This leads my to my other question for you Major.  Why would missing jewelry leave you to believe that these were not random.  When I see jewelry missing normally logic tells me the murder was random and the motive was theft.  However, my gut here is telling me that this jewelry was taken not for their value but to lead us to believe it was random.  The fact that this woman's necklace was most likely not worth all that much money and was stolen adds to my hunch.  Also if the motive was theft it is unlikely whoever did this needed to kill all of his victims.  The perp could easily have hidden their face pulled out a gun, taken the jewelry, and left these woman alive as he did not have to kill them for fear of being identified, nor is it likely all of them would have put up such a fight against an armed bandit that he would feel his only option was to kill them. Is this what you were thinking also?"<br/><br/>I called out to the photographers to come and finish taking the pictures of the crime scene.  I was looking at her waiting for her to answer my questions.