The evidence, in itself, may not have changed the outcome of the Oscar Pistorius murder trial.
But it could have in conjunction with the claim that Pistorius called an ex-lover hours before he shot and killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
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South Africa's Eyewitness News reported that a private forensics expert that studied crime scene photographs believes that Steenkamp flushed the toilet prior to Pistorius shooting into the bathroom door and taking her life on Valentine's Day morning in 2013.
The details are revealed in the book, "Behind the Door: The Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp Story," written by Eyewitness News reporters Barry Bateman and Mandy Wiener.
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It's the same book that reported that Pistorius had a nine-minute phone conversation with Jenna Edkins before coming home to Steenkamp on Feb. 13, 2013. The book also reported that police believed Pistorius' brother, Carl, deleted evidence of that phone call and the entire call history from Pistorius' phone but ultimately chose not to prosecute him.
The latest alleged evidence oversight was ignored by both the defense and prosecution, EWN reported, because the evidence potentially could have hurt both sides' cases.
The Star of South Africa added that Kobus Steyl, the forensics expert, was quoted in the book as saying that it was clear the toilet was flushed.
"She must have flushed the toilet, received the gunshots, thereafter she covers the toilet bowl with the blood before the water removes some of the blood," he said.
The water that was flowing away from the cistern was toward the end of the flush, Steyl said, explaining why all the blood was not washed away.
The evidence could have been crucial ... or damaging to both sides.
Another forensics expert told the Star that if the prosecution had introduced the evidence of Steenkamp flushing the toilet, it would have contracted its assertion that the couple had argued and that Steenkamp fled to the bathroom.
The evidence, coupled with Pistorius' alleged conversation with Edkins, however, could have sway the case.
The defense wanted no part of the evidence, because it would've raised more questions about Pistorius' claims that he thought an intruder had entered the home and was hiding in the bathroom.
Pistorius is scheduled to be sentenced on Monday on a culpable homicide charge.
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