Swaefheard wrote:There were more witnesses to the pool killings in the book than in the film where a single bully survived. Isn't it likely that Oskar would have faced a lot of serious questions about Eli, and why Eli had returned to save him?
In the film hardly anyone knew Oskar even
had a friend, so the investigators perhaps wouldn't automaticly link Eli to Oskar. This also implies that the investigators actually believed that a little kid (small person) was capable of creating so much havoc,
tearing off a head.
This doubt by the investigators is infact an important part of LTODD.
The witnesses were seeing something impossible, so quite likely the investigators would think that they - and Oskar - were too shocked to remember correctly.
Swaefheard wrote:Why else would he have thrown Eli's boxes of money and toys across to his balcony and stored them?
He could have done it to protect Eli, anyway. Maybe not very far ahead planning, however this is 12 y old kids, so I find it believable.