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Maybe it was a MA gang initiation for the accomplices. Maybe DDDW took 2 accomplices with no criminal RECORDS, which is why there is no DNA or fingerprint match in the system...that we have been made aware of. They were criminals but hadn't been caught yet. Or maybe the accomplices wore gloves and didn't take them off during the 18 hours of hell.
Perhaps...Young Adult - rings front doorbell selling something or posing as utility worker. It takes VF a while to get to front door as she was upstairs with PS and Amy was not at home. VF answers door and someone crawls in the doggie door and someone else, maybe DDDW kicks in the side French door. The perks hold VF and PS hostage, VF instructed to call AS home for emergency; and then AS calls SS to come home for emergency.
Maybe they did steal jewelry,etc., and take it away. We don't know what was missing...yet. I bet the S family credit cards were used WHILE they were being held hostage...most criminals know they have a short window to use cards before they are flagged stolen.
Maybe DDDW has been a canary in custody like Sweat.
It will be interesting to see what is released today about all the phone records.JMO.
If this is a gang initiation...and it could be...then this crime, the details of it, the suffering of these captives should receive just as much media attention and national scrutiny as other terrible incidents that break our hearts. Because if this is a gang initiation, it is not a one-off.
It's hard to imagine rage that lasts all night into the next afternoon. It's hard to imagine a group of humans allowing one of their "associates" to inflict such mental and physical torture on individuals who have done THEM no harm.
Even if two people were fired years ago...the cutting of the women and the pain inflicted on the child, burning a little boy alive in his bed..are we talking about Isis wannabes here? And VF! Certainly VF "fired" no one. She was just a hard working woman. Yet she was spared none of this. To watch, to hear...to wait till they turned to you....
I understand the motives for robbery. I understand the lust for material things. I even understand things that happen in a moment of rage. This was not a "moment." If there were a group of people in that house, they were observing things that, even if done by only one of them...should be things no human can stomach....much less for hours and hours.
If there were a group of people in that house, they amused themselves doing SOMETHING while they heard and watched the sounds of torture. Think of that, were they playing with the families possessions, trying on clothes and jewelry? Raiding the refrigerator? Was it a party?
If there were a group of people in that house and this was an organized "gang" mission, thought out and planned...what do we do with that knowledge? I mean really..what do we do. Because if that's what it is...it will be duplicated other places, other times. It's an "initiation" ...a planned "tradition"..."in with the in crowd." It's not random or one-off.
I can't shrug off what happened to this family and VF as a "simple" burglary. Or a five year old grudge. Every new detail escalates what happened there and escalates the intensity of this crime IMO.
That note. How AS must have tried to comfort her baby boy.