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Any thoughts what Brother Francis meant when he said, ‘one day it all went too far and the bleeding wouldn’t stop. We ran away. Something terrible happened and we did nothing. We ran away.’?

Brother Francis was raped by Charlie Marrick and it was his way of dealing with it.

The murder victims participated in some terrible act while at school leaving someone to bleed to death, but the person did not die, but is the murderer

The solution put forward by >3 JohnDBurke: is very plausible.

John has come up with one very good possibility.
Another possibility, which fits in with my own suspicion that Joanne is the killer, is that the victim of the blood-brothers ritual was Joanne’s brother, and that he did die.