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This type of truck would accelerate slower than a passenger car, but are capable of traveling at regular highway speeds. Due to the size and height, it's much harder to force a truck to stop or for a car jacker to enter than a passenger car (but not impossible).

It's easy to believe something odd happened, but there are numerous instances across Websleuths where someone alone crashed their car and simply disappeared. My guess is there's still much about head injury and actions after those injuries we just don't understand.

I don’t think you understand what a true crisis is if you think you’d deliver the load of pigs in the same condition. I’ve seen a lot of cases where everything is perfectly normal, then something snaps. People who fill up their car or get a car wash before a suicide. People on their way home...

There really is nothing odd about a house being far apart from another houses in farm country. Also I don’t think we’ve ever been told he drove at 1/2 speed, just that he didn’t travel far in the time slotted. Could mean he drove slowly, could mean he stopped one or more additional times. Unless...

Dallas police would have no jurisdiction because the crime did not happen in the Dallas city limits. It happened in Fort Worth so they were the agency in charge. If they needed help, next in the chain would be the Texas Rangers then the FBI, not another city.

The Doe Network page more plainly states he was terminally ill. I have my suspicions, based on other articles mentioning his divorce and relationship with another man. that he could be a victim of the AIDS crisis and made a decision to leave on his terms rather than waste away...

I would say the business lettering has been removed, either by painting over or scraping away. Therefore, it was probably licensed and operated as a private vehicle. It probably had to be a non-commercial vehicle to get a personalized license plate (not 100% sure in VA, but it's that way in the...

Stores in the US seldom close for lunch. Before credit cards were popular, lay aways were very common. You paid over time, but only got the merchandise when paid in full. Payments were often made weekly or biweekly depending on the purchasers pay schedule. With an item like jeans, it may have...

In my opinion, a lot of people underestimate how crushing the desire to escape can be, whether is it to run away or take one's own life. At that point, logic goes out the window. If it happened here, it can well be a spontaneous decision. Logically you'd think he'd deliver the pigs and leave the...

That is interesting if that is accurate. I know a lot of people used to write the return address on the flap of the envelope back then rather than the upper left corner before it became a standardized practice. If that was the case, then it is obvious why the flap was missing - rip it off to...

I agree it was probably reused, but it was a smaller envelope that most normal Christmas cards. Could have been any letter previously - maybe one of those family Christmas letters? I could see an elderly relative referring to him as Thomas rather than Tom or Tommy.

Snipped. Nothing strange about a house by itself in farm country. The house is probably owned along with the farmland all around it. So when everyone has a farm, houses can be very far apart.

If he was targeted and it was a revenge murder, even road rage, those type of killings tend to leave a body in plain sight as a warning to others. Hiding a body often implies a relationship between the killer and victim.

Most residential areas are serviced on a different collection schedule and often a different hauling company than commercial dumpsters. It’s been that way every place I’ve lived.

The license plate was distinctive but when the killings happened the truck probably didn't stand out that much. Back then pickups were more work trucks and often had a business name painted on them. This looks like a 1965-1967 style, so it along with many other 20 year old trucks were probably...

From online river info, it looks pretty shallow.

It’s odd that they describe the truck as a “Dodge Fargo”. There is no such thing. Fargo was a brand used for these trucks in Canada and Dodge was used in the US and Canada for the same truck. So it should probably say Dodge or Fargo, the only real difference being which nameplate was on the...

I would have no idea as I know nothing about scent dogs. It is possible it would be too scattered to follow.

Regrading a road is less invasive than plowing a field. The plow digs deep into the earth and turns it over. Grading a road just smooths out the surface. So if there was a scent, regrading would scatter and spread the scent.

Murals on vans were extremely common back then, a carryover from the late 1970s van craze. If there was no company logo on the van, and just a ski scene, the odds are it was a privately owned van, IMO.