Subject: Re: Laura and J-Crew
From: riacmt@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Carol Miller-Tutzauer)
Date: 1990-09-11, 10:18
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: riacmt@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu

In article <Sep.10.00.52.08.1990.395@furs.rutgers.edu| , webster@furs.rutgers.edu (John Clayton Webster) writes...
|  
| We know that Laura was going to Meet "J" on the night of her death.
| Cooper's stone-toss is much more than just a nice plot device to
| review what the hell is going on, if you look at it in the right
| manner. The question asked of the toss is (I believe) "Who was with
| Laura on the night of her death?"  The bottle falls down for Dr.
| Jacoby. The bottle is shattered for Leo Johnson.  Leo didn't kill
| Laura. That would be too simple to believe.  The blood on his shirt
| wasn't Laura's as we were expected to believe.  This is too much
| suspicion on Leo for him to have actually committed the murder.  Since
| we are already dealing with this in the context of a tv mystery
| (stone-toss and all), this is good enough to scratch out Leo.
|  
| If Leo didn't do it who did?  By the stone-toss, we can logically
| presume the murderer's name doesn't start with a "J".  Their name
| would have been on the board and would have registered higher as
| "Being with Laura on the night of her death."
|  
|  
| Sound logic?
|  

What about Josie?  Her name wasn't on the board.  In any case,
it is likely that Laura DID see Jacoby and Leo on the night
she died, even though neither killed her.  Could it be that
"Laura" found out that Josie had her husband killed and was
blackmailing her?  That might also explain how she got (was
going to get) the money for the cocaine deal with Leo.  
Remember when Cooper and Truman go to see Josie to ask her some
questions?  She said that Laura said (something like):  "Now
I know what it must have felt like to lose your husband."
And remember the wounds on Laura's body?  Like little "pecks" or
holes.  Sometimes logs (from lumber mills) have little holes
like that made in them as they are "gripped" and sent down
the line to be made into boards.

I say "Laura" (note the quotation marks) because I too believe
that Laura and Madelain swapped places.

The theory above would also be consistent with the notion that
the Oriental fellow in the hotel is associated with Josie and
fired the shots at Cooper.  Perhaps Cooper was getting too close
to finding out things about Josie.  Maybe, too, the Oriental 
fellow is an officer of the law like Cooper and has tracked
Josie to Twin Peaks.  It is possible that this last husband
was not the only one she bumped off before taking the fellow's
entire estate.

Trust me!  Josie may turn out to be the most rotten apple in the
bunch!!