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And the contradiction fell away.

But those weren't the only problems with Tim's story.

So Mrs. Christie said she'd been in the room and she'd seen nothing.

But this shed was really small.

How could Mrs. Christie have gone into the shed and not seen the bodies?

Of course, both Mrs. Christie and the carpenters could have been wrong about the dates.

Maybe they were in there before the bodies were put in there.

We all know how when you don't have something planting you in a date, it's really hard to remember what you did this morning, what you ate for lunch, right?

That's a common trope.

I don't even know what I ate for lunch.

So maybe it's not a big deal that these workmen and Miss Christie didn't see the bodies wrapped up in the cloth back there because they just didn't remember what days they were there.

The bodies were wrapped up, and you can imagine that if it's looking like a package, even a body-shaped package, maybe they just missed it.

So prosecutors were like, okay, we have enough.

We're moving forward.

We're going to charge Tim because Tim is clearly so guilty here.

He's confessed four times, four different stories, but that just shows his guilt.

So they're afraid that Tim might be able to argue that Beryl goaded him into killing her.

This apparently was some sort of successful strategy at the time.

1940s, wild times, y'all, that the victim can goad you into murdering them.

So he was only charged with killing the baby, Geraldine, so as to avoid any problems with Beryl having, this is like the definition of victim blaming.