I run the <modsnip> site, and unfortunately know more than most about the case. I'm glad to see recent activity on this thread but, unfortunately, much of the info being discussed is outdated and/or inaccurate. I'll try to answer the highlights of the last couple months of posts, quickly and from the hip. Forgive me if it's not sugarcoated. I don't do that. I'll also try to keep my replies to posts in one paragraph per OP, and in chronological order...
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► A. Resendiz was not considered, to my knowledge. Nor should he have been. At the time of the murders, PCSO went public with their working theory the I-5 killer did it, but one huge problem was his arrest a full month before the Keddie Murders was highly publicized knowledge. Serial killers do a slight percentage of murders per annum, and for so many 'interwebs' detectives to try to attribute a particular murder to some sk they've read about is so off-base I don't waste my time with them, particularly considering facts about the Keddie Murders are now so easily available.
► There was blood on the knobs of almost every door in the cabin. There was also blood on doors, smears on bedroom walls and bedding, etc. With no test results identifying whose blood is in these samples, it's foolhardy to speculate how certain stains got there. It's pretty obvious many of the stains came from blood on the killers' own hands, and Tina and Sue were awakened and attacked simultaneously: they were asleep in beds just feet apart in the same room. The light in that room appears to be the only light turned on during the murders, and was still on when PCSO came upon the scene at 8am. It's widely known Tina was already home and asleep before Sue went to sleep later. Sue was very myopic, yet her eyeglasses were on the night table, where she put them only when sleeping. The robe she'd been seen wearing prior to going to bed was also hanging from her closet door. The Sharps, like everyone else in Keddie, never locked their doors. She and Tina were awakened by the killers.
► The Friday the 13th post is pretty off: There's a lot of MAJOR drug activity tied to Marty, Bo, and members of LE, as well as Marty being a best pal with the sheriff (Syl Doug Thomas) and under-sheriff (Ken Shanks, himself molesting kids at the time of the murders). Doug Thomas apparently lived in 28 just before the Sharps moved in, making Marty's claims he lived with his pal, DT, during a strained period with his own wife far more plausible: 26 (where Marty lived) and 28 were yards from each other, and Marty would probably have crashed in the unfinished basement room Johnny later took. Plus, Thomas recently told us he was big pals with Marty, and he, Marty, and Shanks would spend hours together at night cruising around in a patrol car. Back to drugs: There's a lot of jabber about Johnny and Dana being involved in a recent drug rip-off, but it comes from the same notorious liar who also loudly lied about bringing the boys home that night. Johnny was said to have been implicated in prior small pot ripoffs (1/4 oz), but LE research indicates he wasn't wittingly involved. The only things tying drugs to Cabin 28 are the backgrounds of the suspects, dirty local LE and CA-DOJ, a carton of 'sandwich baggies' taken into evidence from 28, and two mentions of DEA contact info found in victims' belongings. Without solid facts tying anything together, I find the drug angle spec a complete waste of time, particularly when other, meritorious avenues are bearing fruit.
► As for case summaries posted or linked to, most of them are laughable and repeat decades-old misinformation and outright lies. The wiki page is awful, but I don't waste my time trying to update a hopeless situation, which is what Wiki is: Try quoting from actual police files, when wiki prefers you link to printed newspaper articles filled with lies? I'm midway through writing a synopsis based on actual KNOWN facts, <modsnip>
► Sex assault info on all victims (excluding Tina, found in skeletal form three years later) came back negative. I admittedly have many issues with the autopsies and the work of the ME who conducted all three, but the fluid results would have come from a source independent of said ME.
► RichKelly: The only child not supposed to stay the night in 28 was eldest daughter, Sheila. There's no indication where Johnny and Dana were when the murders began: still walking home, or already downstairs in Johnny's remote basement room (his room was not attached to the main floor via an indoor stairwell). Either way you cut it, the boys had to enter from the outside. Both male victims were still fully clothed, including outdoor attire (sweater, jacket, vest). It's important to note Johnny's basement room was in the unfinished basement, with his only heat being a space heater, so they could have been down there for a while with their outerwear still on. Johnny's windows were completely covered with cardboard for insulation, also making it difficult/impossible to see from the outside if his lights were on. The only claims the boys successfully hitched home are from liars trying to inject themselves into the picture. The killers are people who knew the victims, and it WAS a planned offense made to look unplanned. A home invasion was planned, most restraints/weapons were brought by the killers (the knives and hammer found at the scene are almost all superfluous to the death-causing injuries). They brought restraints with them (at least three rolls of med tape, including two different widths of tape, were used), and all the cords used as restraints came from 28, but all cord use appears to be solely for posthumous staging. Dana had been bound, hand and foot, with the wider med tape, but both bindings were broken. Sue was initially placed in a very sexually humiliating pose, and was in that position long enough for rigor to set. She was only later moved and covered, most certainly NOT by any of the killers. The survivor(s) or people that entered 28 prior to LE's arrival (3 survivors, plus 2 other entered) are the ones that moved Sue, out of empathy. The sheet and blanket came from the bed Tina had been sleeping in. Tina was socially inward, underdeveloped, shy. Johnny was rebellious, and had briefly run away many weeks before the murders. Sue was most severely beaten and abused, but Johnny is the only one with a 'deadly' stab wound prior to death. Most, if not all, of Sue's stab wounds appear postmortem. There is absolutely ZERO evidence indicating Tina left the cabin alive. Marty himself claimed he killed both Sue and Tina, and Tina was "incapacitated" when she was taken. The taking of Tina from the crime scene appears simply to be yet another layer of the ever-present and crappy staging: Get the lightest victim, a girl, and dump her miles away to confuse the scene and mislead people. 34 years later, it's still working.
► Doug Thomas went out of his way in the early weeks to imply Tina was involved. FBI in Quantico were fed patently false info from PCSO & CA-DOJ, which led to a very faulty perp assessment by a very young John Douglas. Had he been told the truth, I doubt he would have concluded Tina had even the remotest likelihood of involvement. Any thoughts of Tina's being sold, or committing suicide, are such wild, baseless spec... ugh! I run up against this time-wasting stuff all the time, and it gets old.
► Sue went through several boyfriends in the months before the murders. If Tony G indeed dated Sue, he's a prime suspect. He's ALREADY a prime tertiary suspect, in my book, due to lies he and others have told. Plus, immediately after we talked to him and contradicted his lies, he quit his job without notice and bailed from a town he'd been living in for YEARS.
► Tina was found at Camp Eighteen, a former mining town, by an antique bottle collector. Long abandoned, c18 is also very remote. I knew where it was and STILL got lost twice! In April, it's interwoven, unmarked dirt roads covered with snow, puddles, mud, felld trees left over from winter. When I visited in April 2011, c18 was barely a wide spot in the road, enough to pull over and park, leaving a full lane for the non-existent traffic.
► Tina's memorial service was held mid-2000s at the Quincy Cemetery. Dana, Johnny, and Sue were all cremated. Disposition of ashes unknown on all, but there were ceremonies held in Quincy days after the murders, and plaques for Johnny & Sue (and, at the 00s ceremony, Tina) placed at the cemetery.
► Feather River College had their Spring Break/Easter vacation the week prior to the murders, causing an exodus of people from Plumas- NOT an influx of suspects. The Spring Vacation for the Plumas Unified School District was AFTER the murders. The murders was NOT a random act, although LE went out of their way to imply it was, stating 'all weapons came from inside th cabin', that it was a crime of opportunity. The killers brought a kill kit, including bindings, at least one knife, a rifle, and perhaps a second hammer/bludgeon. Circumferences of head wounds attributed to hammer blows are of two different sizes, and Marty also inexplicably told DOJ scum that he'd "love to see the hammer" from 28 because he just happened to notice his hammer was missing right after the murders.
► The surviving kids moved into foster care in the Pac NW and were eventually adopted as a group. Their father went back east alone, once again- and forever- abandoning his family.
► No forced entry means cabin 28 never locked their doors. Nobody in Keddie did. When Sheila went home Sunday morning, she didn't have or need a key. Their doors were ALWAYS unlocked. Johnny lived downstairs, the only bathroom was upstairs, there was no connecting internal stairway. Do the math.
► PCSO and CA-DOJ intentionally botched the case to protect the killers, the Powers That Be, and their own asses. The last thing anyone of power involved wanted was an arrest and trial, where things would be exposed.
► The pellet WAS part of the crime. The Daisy rifle used to shoot and beat the victims (only one round found, but pellet guns require manual loading of each round) has not been found, of course, but the killers left behind both sight pieces off the barrel. At least one wound to Sue's right cheek is 100% clearly from the sight from the tip of the barrel. The plostumous bludgeoning that crushed Dana's skull may have come from the rifle barrel as well. Both Bo and Marty, and Dee Lake, were ex-military, and Bo has a storied history of pistol-whipping compliant victims stretching back to his mafia gang robberies in Chicago in the 50s.
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