I always found the hose strange too. I think about why a person whould ever take the time to put that hose back up on the rack beside the door. Sloppy as it was, did DG actually throw it back up there?!? That action would leave evidence so it makes no sense to me.
I figure a person with OCD, who felt compelled to put the hose back up, would want to wind it.... But based on the photos, the hose looked very sloppy.... Almost put back up in haste.. Why even bother is my only question, at the point the hose needed to be put up it was already quite obvious that something horrible had taken place so your not covering anything up by winding the hose and that's time that you could be leaving. Why would DG risk spending an unnecessary second at the Liknes home?
It has just has always stuck to me because it seems to me that it wasn't usually left like that... The Liknes property looked very neat and well pruned. IMHO AL and KL would have normally wound up their hose properly and DG is the person who left it looking sloppy.
Here is a photo of the hose I saved from google images when the story was initially released:
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