WHY would two teams of men dressed in black converge upon this home during daylight hours? Just before 7:30 PM- still light outside.
How many other home invasions do we know of which were not " up close and personally motivated" which occurred at this early hour? I've never heard of any.
I understand now more why the utility room door was unlocked. I read the 7:40 ish time frame but it really didn't sink in until just now. MAYBE this was some kind of rage kill ( overkill) for a motive other than strictly robbery?
We think a certain family has no enemies, and maybe THEY don't think they do either.. But all people in the business world and also in the foster care to adoption process probably have created some unknowing grudges.
IMO, Capote's " In Cold Blood" was so significant in literature because the criminology and criminal psychology was so absolutely unusual. It was also set in a time period at least 60 years ago with a down-home Kansas farmer and his innocent family who had never interacted with the killers Smith or Hickock.
What's the chance that this is a random home invasion done in a total clown vehicle with Chuck Norris wannabes before it was even freaking dark outdoors?
The psychological aspects of the known facts point to rage.
Now I wonder where the rage came from, whether totally unwarranted or with a precipitating factor of some sort... which the Billings' may have been totally unaware of.
JMO.. I know motive doesn't have to be established, but I am a behaviorist first and foremost.
Maria