At first it seemed impossible that one person could’ve done this alone … after the facts were out, IMO it seems like just into over the line into possible. Here’s why I think that:
Vile beast DW met each victim one by one, so every confrontation was just him vs a single person. He entered thru open garage door while Vera F took the trash to the curb - so when he went in, there was no one else in the house but little Phillip S (home from school w a concussion). Maybe little PS was up in his room & DW didn’t even know he was there, or maybe he was moving around & the first thing DW spotted upon trespassing was IMO the key to his ability to pull this off - the most valuable possible hostage imaginable, his victims’ child.
Regardless of the unknowns about PS, soon VF must’ve come inside. So then it was just her & DW. All the adult victims were found bound to chairs in an upstairs bedroom where IMO they may have been held for the duration. They were at least held there throughout being tortured in multiple ways & murdered. So IMO good chance DW might’ve forced them there immediately upon encounter, one by one.
First VW, then Amy S came home from Starbucks and, if VW was already incapacitated, faced DW alone. (Even if not, the two women in the home with a child IMO were not going to put up much fight against the muscled, surely enraged monster intruder.)
AS called SS to come home, & evidence showed SS was attacked immediately upon coming through the door. He never had a chance to defend himself or try to coordinate any defense with the others. IMO good chance VF & AS were already bound upstairs, so any fight would be just ambushed, wounded SS in his home where his wife & child were already hostage.
With the three adults bound in one room upstairs & little PS being tortured in a nearby room
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) , DW would be just about as much in control as if he had accomplices present. Of course the crime should’ve been easier to commit if he did have others, but of course DW was a despicable rage-filled beast with no friends & who no one could stand to be around - not his brothers he tried to frame for his horrific crimes, not his father who had him removed from their home by LE (and ultimately turned him in) etc.
These are the bases for why DW imo COULD have pulled it off alone.
As to why maybe he DID act alone - his BIL testified that after the crime had gone down, DW asked the BIL to come for a drive in DW’s van and then help burn it. The BIL refused, saying “that’s a layer too deep for me.” This last-minute failed attempt to pull his sister’s husband into his crimes IMO sounds like the work of someone with no conspirators or accomplices (or even trusted friends).
And then DW took off for NYC, updating his FB location as he did, where he & his GF spent piles of money stolen from the S family. Once again, not really the actions of someone who’s working with anyone else even to the point of getting a few words of advice….
