Twin Peaks Usenet Archive

Subject: Re: Who Killed Emerald Palmer?
From: geoffb@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Thumper)
Date: 1990-05-15, 22:19
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <5440@scorn.sco.COM> dave@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat) writes:

Long discussion of how Maddie's body couldn't have been mistaken for Laura
Palmer deleted.

> >
> >Not just dental records.  Fingerprints.  Hair color.  Eye color.  Height.
> >Bone structure.  Madeline and Laura were only *cousins*.  They weren't 
> >identical twins.  I don't care how much Lynch and company want to run
> >this idea into the ground, but I cannot believe that they look so much
> >alike that a non-grief stricken person would see the two as identical.
> >
> >Albert would have had her medical records simply so he could compare 
> >Laura's final state of health (other than being dead) to her normal one.
> >
> >Madeline is *not* Laura; it'd be really cheap if she was.
> >

What if the records were tampered with??  After all, it's a small town and
her identity seems to be based on the word of a one doctor who "brought her
into the world" himself.  He could have switched the records easily.

_G
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