When police speculated about the assailant, the juvenile probation officer assisting at the scene of the murders speculated that Echols was " capable " of committing the murders, stating " it looks like Damien Echols finally killed someone.

" ( Saunders and Harkins, 164 ) Adams noted a severe infection in Lady ’ s hindquarters, and speculated that someone had come across the dying horse and slit its throat in order to end its misery.

Some commentators, such as the Carnegie Moscow Center's Lilia Shevtsova, have speculated that his " outsider " status might have been an important factor in his nomination, saying that Putin selected him as someone who was " not a representative of any of the warring clans " in the Kremlin.

Rumsfeld was evasive, and speculated about why someone would want to keep a prisoner hidden from the Red Cross, which is considered a war crime under international law.

Some have speculated that " became foolish " is thus a mistranslation by someone who did not realize the dual meaning of the Aramaic.

Nineteen-year-old Gutierrez tipped police off when he speculated he thought someone had killed her and stuffed her body in the building's crawlspace.

Investigators have speculated that the suspect might be a law enforcement officer, someone impersonating one, or perhaps a rogue operative from the Central Intelligence Agency, which has a training facility nearby at Camp Peary in York County.

Even with respect to slavery the new citizen law of 450 BC may have had effect: it is speculated that originally Athenian fathers had been able to register for citizenship offspring had with slave women ( Hansen 1987: 53 ).

While it touted superior graphics to the 2600 and Mattel's Intellivision, the system was initially incompatible with the 2600s expansive library of games, and some market analysts have speculated that this hurt its sales especially since an Atari 2600 cartridge adapter had been released for the Intellivision II.

Long before this, scholars had speculated that Nabonidus ' exile in Teima lay behind the story of Nebuchadnezzar's banishment and madness in Daniel chapter four.

The writers of the study had initially speculated that the reason for this is due to endocrinology with larger breasts indicating higher levels of estrogen and a sign of greater fertility, but the researchers said that " Men may be looking more often at the breasts because they are simply aesthetically pleasing, regardless of the size.

Robert Graves ( relying on the work of Georges Dumezil argued for tracing the centaurs back to the Indian gandharva ), speculated that the centaurs were a dimly remembered, pre-Hellenic fraternal earth cult who had the horse as a totem.

Freud had speculated 40 years previously that traumas with similar content join together in " chains ," embedded in the unconscious mind, to cause irrational responses in the individual.

Industry observers, however, speculated that the most important motivation was that a name change would help Nissan market stocks and bonds in the U. S. They also presumed substantial ego involvement, since the absence of the Nissan name in the U. S. surely rankled Nissan executives who had seen Toyota and Honda become household words.

He pointed out that Duke Nukem 3D was appropriately rated " M " and had no real nudity, and speculated that that was enough to make it inoffensive to the general public.

Coming from a jazz background, Daihachi Oguchi speculated why the Taiko drums had never previously been played as an ensemble before.

" Leveritt speculated that the small local police force was overwhelmed by the crime, which was unlike any they had ever investigated.

Historians have speculated that Thomas Seymour had put her off sexual relationships, or that she knew herself to be infertile.

Some historians have speculated that since Rome lacked advanced naval technology the design of the warships was probably copied verbatim from captured Carthaginian triremes and quinqueremes or from ships that had beached on Roman shores due to storms.

Many have speculated about what might have happened had Pauling been able to travel to Britain as planned in May 1952.

The ancients had a variety of ideas about heredity: Theophrastus proposed that male flowers caused female flowers to ripen ; Hippocrates speculated that " seeds " were produced by various body parts and transmitted to offspring at the time of conception ; and Aristotle thought that male and female semen mixed at conception.

Haunted attractions in the United States bring in an estimate $ 300 – 500 million each year, and draw some 400, 000 customers, although press sources writing in 2005 speculated that the industry had reached its peak at that time.

Some prominent authors have speculated that Moseley could have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1916, had he not died in the service of the British Army.

Isaac Asimov has also speculated that in the event that he had not been killed while in the service of the British Empire, Moseley might very well have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1916, which was not awarded to anyone that year ( along with the prize for Chemistry ).

Studies of Charles Darwin's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natural selection which he set out in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, but it has been speculated that he may have had some half-forgotten memory from his time as a student in Edinburgh of ideas of selection in nature as set out by Hutton, and by William Charles Wells and Patrick Matthew who had both been associated with the city before publishing their ideas on the topic early in the 19th century.

He noted the shower was of short duration and was not seen in Europe, and that the meteors radiated from a point in the constellation of Leo and he speculated the meteors had originated from a cloud of particles in space.

It has been speculated that if Finland had not joined the euro, market fluctuations such as the tech bubble would have reflected as wild fluctuations in the price of markka.

It was frequently speculated that ancient Martian civilizations had constructed irrigation works that spanned the planet in an attempt at saving their dying world.

In the summer of 1786, the Empress Catherine, in the context of tense negotiations on a renewed treaty of commerce, had emphasised her control over this vital commodity by asking the merchants who supplied it to restrict sales to English buyers: “ the Empress has contrary to Custom speculated on this Commodity ”, complained the author of a subsequent memorandum to the Home Secretary.

It has even been speculated that God the Guide of Youth inspired Robinson Crusoe because of a number of passages in that work that are closely tied to the novel.

Waters also speculated that the hole's properties might be tied to some cosmological events, including unspecified alignments of the moon.

He had been considered one of the frontrunners to succeed Lloyd Robertson as CTV National News anchor ; with his departure coming shortly after Lisa LaFlamme was named Robertson's successor, it was widely speculated that Clark's departure was tied to having been passed over.

Others speculated that quasars were a white hole end of a wormhole.

It was equally obvious that the Saxon line of Emperors was at an end, and all of Europe speculated and maneuvered to influence the Prince-electors in unseemly disrespect for the aging Henry II.

Those positing a Hebrew name have speculated " Pi-hahiroth " might mean " mouth of the gorges ", descriptive of its location as the end of a canal or river.

Futurist Ray Kurzweil has speculated that by the end of the 21st century it may be possible by using femtotechnology to create new chemical elements composed of exotic baryons that would eventually constitute a new periodic table of elements in which the elements would have completely different properties than the regular chemical elements.

There are no known Mesopotamian tales about the end of the world, although it has been speculated that they believed that this would eventually occur.

Local residents have speculated that the fire started when a squirrel suffered an untimely end at the hands of an electrical transformer.

However, it has thus been speculated by some fans that the end of Thread and rapid technological progress at the end of the Ninth pass would result in severe social disruption.

After the rise of netbooks media have speculated predicting a possible end of Wintel dominance with more and more cheap devices employing other technologies.

This is speculated to have some evolutionary function, as prior to torsion, when retracting into the shell, first the posterior end would get pulled in, and then the anterior.

Many have speculated that this change might have been what signaled the beginning of the end for the Transformers, as part of the novelty of the first lines was the realistic vehicles that turned into robots.

It has been speculated that this was a way for Kelley to end the fruitless spiritual conferences so that he could concentrate on alchemy, which, under the patronage of Rožmberk, was beginning to make Kelley wealthy.

It is speculated that when Jiang Zemin was close to the end of his term for his age, he put many members of the Crown Prince Party into important positions to appeal to senior leaders of the CCP and win their support for his continued influence.

As Jiang Zemin reached the end of his term, many observers speculated that Jiang preferred Zeng Qinghong over Hu Jintao as his successor.

The main period of emigration from Dumnonia to Armorica is believed to have been in the 5th and 6th centuries, and it is speculated that the Dumnonii saw the end of the Roman empire as an opportunity to establish control in new areas.

This was the last and decisive battle that was necessary for a quick end of the war, even though it is speculated that the fortress would have fallen eventually due to starvation.

In March 2005, an LCG congregation in Brookfield, Wisconsin was attacked by gunman Terry Ratzmann, a church member who some speculated was upset by Meredith's sermons about the end time and demands for money.

At the end of Lords and Ladies, Granny speculated she might have a relationship with the young wizard Ponder Stibbons, but he returned to Unseen University.

The first French Spaniel is speculated to have originated in the middle east towards the end of the 11th century.

The Los Angeles Times speculated that Carter caught the ball as if he knew where the pitch was going to end up.

A contemporary fantasy, Beyond The Veil follows a male character ( whose appearance is speculated to be based on the artist ) who, after finding a pair of rose colored glasses, proceeds to " see things ;" experiencing visions and other manifestations that may be related to the end of the world.

It has been speculated by futurologist Ray Kurzweil the end of the 21st century it may be possible by using femtotechnology to create new chemical elements composed of exotic baryons that would eventually constitute a new periodic table of elements in which the elements would have completely different properties than the regular chemical elements.