The $64,000 Question About the Boiling Water

There are different possibilities when we talk about the weapon of first choice, which was the boiling water. If it's just to injure or maim or even kill, then you just could have used the bat that the attacker also obviously had there ready. The bigger question right now is who was the intruder? That's the $64,000 question here. We have gone through that a million times and it's nothing but suspicion and conjecture.