SMOLAREK GLOVES - December 2016 Police found a bag of trash in Mandi's And said inside the trash, they found some bloody gloves. in pictures, gloves up a piece brown butcher paper, before bag is opened up. Smolarek’s evidence log shows the gloves were found at 11:45 The first picture of gloves is taken 11:51 A Walmart bag can be unopened the background at exhibit from Mandi's trial, the Walmart bag with trash, is photographed torn open but all trash still packed in it at is no way somebody through that already to find a little ball If you really found gloves in the bag Smolarek claimed at trial she found the gloves, wouldn’t you empty it completely to see if were more gloves, or or or who knows what? Smolarek claims found gloves with suspected blood in that bag at AM. But that was so uninteresting, that at 12:09 PM, they still been curious enough to what else might be in the bag. Suppose you found with suspected blood and duct tape in bag, after finding blood and duct tape in an apartment. Could you f1nd suspected blood and tape in a bag the suspect’s car, without being to empty out the rest the trash in the next minutes? Does truth matter? More likely, what they actually bag itself. They were looking for place to say they found the gloves. They found a bag with trash in it, and that was perfect place to say they found gloves. they left the in the bag, photographed it minutes because they a bag with trash in it. They did interest what was in the trash, just the bag gloves just all a sudden, two On left are three loose open surgical spread Two have the tip the thumb torn off. Two, some f1ngertips are inside out. One of has a large piece torn out. These gloves on the left are clearly inside small locked bundle on the On the right a tiny bundle of blue items, wrapped a small package with two small zip The bundle is such a tight, little package, the zip ties crossing in the middle, it is fair to speculate whoever made it has experience doing the same thing more than once. likes make a project of tying small bundles. Why package something neatly to throw in the trash? The three loose the have a kind of dingy tint and like have been used and stored. The gloves tied in the ball on the right are a different color from loose gloves on left. cutting the zip ties, the tight bundle on the right is shown to contain two blue shoe covers like you might wear a clean room, and what looks like two darker have been used. Though later pictures seem to show several clean gloves stacked below them. Sprague’s police report two separate entries in the list of items found in Mandi's car on 8: - gloves with suspected blood - plastic gloves, zip ties, and duct tape But on page 18 of Sprague’s police Alison Smolarek as collected one item: ABS74 TWO BLUE PLASTIC BOOTIES, FIVE USED BLUE LATEX GLOVES, PIECE OF BLACK DUCT TAPE AND TWO ZIP TIES (all tied The loose gloves on the left, and the gloves with suspected blood" have either vanished, or have been combined into the single item. At Scott’s trial, said there were five total gloves. At Mandi's trial, she described eight gloves. III - 19. car. they surgical But the show on of the trash AM. at AM. seen in 11:52 AM. State’s 162 with the 12:09 PM. There digged of gloves. out there knives bullets they 11:45 haven’t see gloves a trash possibly gloves with duct trash in curious of 24 the found was the a the the So trash and 24 later, needed not have any itself. The appear of in groups. the gloves out. of them not the right. is as square crisscrossed ties. neat square with Someone to gloves on left stains they up the the Upon in blue gloves that has page Three plastic Plastic booties, report, is listed having only STYLE together) three "Three plastic Smolarek 59