People on the net have said Bahners were hanging around St. Joe, but is there any truth to it?
If someone called from the home where the party was, I imagine LE looked into phone calls from there. Remember, cellphones were not really that available and I imagine coverage in rural areas like that would have been almost non existent.
If they abused someone in their own family, maybe the sentence is less?
When I was working, I had a 6 year old student that had been abused by mom's BF. Penetrated.. He served one year in a very loose facility.
Hopefully, they are sentenced longer nowadays, but I am not really sure they are.
But this Ben kid from St. Joe recognized the Bahner brothers by sight on the road at night just driving by, which wouldn't be likely if they lived in another town, IMO. I wonder if maybe dad lived in Clearwater, and the boys at 17 and 24 had already moved out and were renting somewhere in St. Joe. I know their sister Brenda had a home or apartment fairly close to the road Jacob was taken on. Maybe they lived with her or near her?