WHY would they want to simulate a murder they were telling everyone did not take place? They were reporting only the Tsar was killed. That's what they wanted most people to believe. That's the biggest problem I have with these theories on this, the faked and staged stuff being speculated on is very much against what the Bolsheviks were trying to achieve- making people believe that the family was safe and only N had been shot. So it doesn't make sense for them to stage a murder scene 
therefore it is all unrealistic and pointless.
Good points, Annie.
So, Â let me think about this for a few moments.
They  [I assume you mean the CHEKA, Ural Soviets and Moscow Soviets] were reporting they had just executed Nicholas II.  Most of us understand this fact is very true.Â
SPECULATIONS:
My speculation can only push forth other speculations to answer Annie's questions.
With the entire family missing, Â the Ekaterinburg CHEKA had to simulate the deaths of the entire family. Â They had no choice at that time, night of 16/17 July 1918....
After making it appear that the entire family was executed, Â I assume in Moscow the head of the CHEKA and Lenin gave the order that the world be told that just Nicholas II was executed.
In  many books,  there are mention reasons why Lenin and Trotsky didn't want the world to know that Nicholas II's wife and children were executed.  One of the important reasons may have been:  At that same time  Trotsky was secretly using the Nicholas II's family  as  "items for trade" for guns and bullets which the Bolsheviks desperately needed. Â
If Moscow announced the deaths of the very people they had offered in trade, Â the gun deal would fail. Â
Meanwhile,  trains were being searched for missing IF family members.  A fact many  witnesses have reported.
Meanwhile, Yurovsky and others were collecting various items they had left at the Four Brother's mine and since they couldn't return some of the items to the Impatiev House,  clothes were burnt.... The bodies of the five Letts were  hidden in the woods.... Â
There was a lot of events occuring in and around Ekaterinburg with the White Army approaching.  At that point,  The Whites were growing stronger and  defeating the Red Army.  Reilly and his band of merry men were bringing in huge shipments of guns by ship from the USA's Remington gun factory....
Remember, Â my speculation does not have nine out of the eleven escape the Bolshviks. Â The nine must have hunted them down because nine bodies [in part] did end up in a grave in Pig's Meadow.
No one, however, Â has explained why so man bones, which should have been found, were missing in the grave in Pig's Meadow. Â This indicates, Â to me and others, some of the bodies may have been buried else where and then buried, again, with the others, later, in Pig's Meadow.
There is evidence the Pig's Meadow grave has been open three, four, Â maybe as many as five times before the bones were completely removed.....
AGRBear
PS Â Please take a look at the thread about sightings of IF family members after 16 July 1918:
http://hydrogen.pallasweb.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=anastasia;action=display;num=1091994509PSS Â Greg Wilson and I had a coversation about the various telegrams which can be found:
http://hydrogen.pallasweb.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=revolution;action=display;num=1097423232;start=0#0PSS See some interesting information on Lenin's Letts which is mentioned by Penny Wilson on the following URL:
http://hydrogen.pallasweb.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?action=display;board=anastasia;num=1074956237;start=300#312
