To the people stating there was no cover-up or corruption, if you watch the People Magazine Investigates episode "Cabin 28 Horror in the Woods" which is publicly and easily accessible online the current LE detectives, the investigators from the Sheriff's department (the new ones that took over) literally state there was corruption and a cover-up. I feel they are really brave in that programme actually.
LE: "Were things done properly, thoroughly, or as well as they could have been? No"
LE: "I'd like to say that it's just a poor investigation, but the more I read and the more I look at it and the more I see had not been done... to leave out evidence is... is more than just incompetence. It was done purposely"
Again, really brave.
I will not write my own theories on what I think happened as I don't see the point - it has already been extensively covered in this thread. <modsnip>
I am not one for conspiracy theories but very rarely cover-ups do happen and people want things dropped or hidden due to reasons not even connected to the crime but personal reasons/worry about things coming out, whatever that could be is beyond the scope of this really.
To me it targetted Sue. The boys were downstairs in a basement and would have had to have run around the outside of the house to get in when they HEARD the commotion.
Nothing I have said here has not been stated in the programme or police documents.
I'll leave with the words of Investigator Gamberg: "it was evil"