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Originally Posted by rogerpepitone
Forgot to mention my real difficulty with Shannon writing the letters: Rosa didn't find the discord envelope when she looked through Maria's bag, and Shannon wouldn't give it to Maria after finding the bodies.
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Rosa was the one who "realized" that the chapel was a closed room, so she might be in on it. There'd be no reason to announce its presence in that case.
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Originally Posted by rogerpepitone
I think that the chapel comes in two parts:
Jessica (probably with Kumasawa's help - Kumasawa disappears for a while before people arrive and mentions the pumpkin-shaped cookies) sets up the food and decorations, gave Maria the key, and possibly wrote "Happy Halloween for Maria" outside. (When they're discussing the letter early the next morning, George thinks it's for the family, but Jessica's comment is a bit more ambiguous; I read it as Jessica knew it was something fun for Maria.) It was supposed to be fun and innocent.
I can't see Jessica as being innocently involved with any corpses, fake or not. Why put them at something meant for Maria? (Besides, I don't think anybody present there could mistake the smell of corpses.)
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Maria helped write the scenario, and was fully expecting the corpses to be there. Jessica would happily go along with it in this situation.
Furthermore, these are six people who were planning to be discovered as fake corpses
in the morning. Why would they go to the chapel at midnight and wait for six hours when they could just gather there a little before dawn?
And if they died as recently as an hour or two before they were discovered, there wouldn't be any stench.