Excellent research, and excellent shot, Billandrew. It is much appreciated, and makes it so much easier for me to picture how this could have been the murder spot. They really would have been out of sight behind those trees, and it is remote enough it is unlikely any of the neighbours would have heard the shot. Perhaps TB was shot as he was doing up his seatbelt after he quickly got out and let MS get out, then got back in. Another poster was right. With only one door on the passenger side, he would have had to quickly exit and get back in after letting MS out to go to the Yukon. He would have been a bit distracted at that moment. I think DM is a real coward, and he wanted to have his gun out, but hidden, and take advantage of TB at just the right time. This may have been more important to him than keeping the inside of the truck clean, and -----what if he wanted to take the blood evidence away with him in the truck, and not leave it in the field ??? ----- What if this was part of the plan all along, and not a fiasco resulting in a big clean up ??? Ms testified that DM liked leather seats, and no carpet on the floors of his vehicles. This way they did not have to risk being seen loading a bleeding body back into the truck, or getting blood on the outside of the truck; they had to drive on other roads of course to get to the incinerator. One bullet hole through a window that would shatter in place, and could be rolled down could be hidden too. Would they have placed a blanket from the Yukon over the slumped body in the front seat, and quickly driven off, as the neighbour described, the Yukon following the truck ? It is possible IMO. No glass or blood would be left in the field. It was a portable crime scene with the body. The body would be made to "disappear in the incinerator", and the evidence in the truck could be made to disappear as well. In their minds, a very clever way to dispose of the evidence, and still make a quick get away. I doubt that they found this lane and field so close to Tim's that evening. I think DM or MS found it earlier, and that they indeed would have scoped out the area well, once DM decided to steal from "the nice guy". Or did the location make him decide that TB would be the perfect victim ? I can see him going for a nice drive with CN, and finding just the right spot. Does anyone know what they were doing on the day or evening before, or even the morning or afternoon of the day TB was murdered ? Sorry, I do not have time now to check Bill's excellent timeline. IMO
When did police search this field ? I think perhaps they did not respond to the neigbour's phone call for a few days. If so, that is unfortunate, because tire tracks would probably have been washed away by rain, and also erased by other vehicles driving over them.
When did police search this field ? I think perhaps they did not respond to the neigbour's phone call for a few days. If so, that is unfortunate, because tire tracks would probably have been washed away by rain, and also erased by other vehicles driving over them.
Dunno if it helps to get technical over U-turns and 3-point turns, but TB's truck would NOT be able to do an actual U-turn on Book Rd. I went to the exact area to check it out and I had to pull a rather strained 3-point turn in my little Jetta. It's a very narrow road with ditches and roughage on either side.
Also, the farmer's field driveway is only one lane wide. The Yukon and TB's pickup would not be able to drive in side by side. I.e. the Yukon would have had to be parked back a ways into the driveway/field in order for them to pull TB's truck in later. Here's a screenshot for reference:
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