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Originally Posted by LyricalAura
This is actually not an unreasonable conclusion. Public opinion around the time of writing held that Eva was the culprit. That theory necessarily involves Eva solving the epitaph so that she can gain the head's ring and the means to escape the explosion after committing the murders. If we see the Eva-Beatrice narrative as the result of the Reader projecting that theory onto the blank spaces of the game board, then it's actually pretty natural to think that the scenes of Eva solving the epitaph and sneaking out to find the gold could also be part of that projection.
You can build a pretty solid theory of EP3 on the premise that Piece-Beatrice initially made Eva an accomplice and then set out to frame her for the remaining murders as a distraction after she was forced to kill off her other accomplices prematurely.
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The problem is that no matter how you look at it, the murder of Rosa and Maria, which kills Maria so early and, even more important,
is missing the stakes, doesn't look like Yasu's style. It really looks like someone else on the island killed Rosa and then Maria and tried to frame 'Beato' for it (they can't know about the stakes as the previous murders didn't need them and likely it's Yasu who has them).
If Rosa killed Maria and then herself I could wave it off as something no one planned but Beato denied this theory.
So a third person is definitely involved, someone who pushed Rosa against the fence (maybe even without meaning to kill her) and then strangled Maria as witnesser or because in this way their deaths would look like they were part of the epitaphs' murders and this third person obviously doesn't know about the stakes so he/she didn't use them.
As someone pointed out the fact that Rudolf and Kyrie killed 2 stakes might be an interesting magic parallel to point out they're responsible for that murder... but this is just speculation though.
Magic also showed Eva killing them... so really, the thing is unsure.
Though magic also pointed again at Kyrie as the possible murderer for Hideyoshi so maybe it's not that much of speculation to assume Kyrie isn't as innocent as she might look...
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Originally Posted by Renall
It's also possible the epitaph was solved and the killer was never made aware of it. In ep3, Eva and Rosa conspire to keep it a secret. If they do that, and Beatrice doesn't find out that they've done it, how is she supposed to know to stop?
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I considered this time ago and I liked this theory but again it rain against the same point: why the stakes weren't involved if the murderer was PieceYasu? Why did she changed her modus operandi for apparently no reason?