Again, I believe that if someone has a chop shop, and a stolen vehicle, they do not have a problem. An actual chop shop would have had that truck stripped and shipped within hours of arrival, so that makes me think that the chop shop story was highly exaggerated. Logic dictates that if he felt the hanger would be searched, he would have moved all the incriminating evidence that he was aware of, not just some of it. So it would be reasonable to assume that whoever moved the truck was unaware of the supposedly stolen Harley, or they could have easily shovelled those parts into the trailer with the truck that they were also hiding. I guess, to answer your question SB, I do think, personally, that if I had many buildings and vehicles and lots of money and my friends did not, that when they asked me if they could use my hanger to store some stuff in, I'd say sure, no problem. I also think that if they asked me if they could borrow one of my many vehicles or money, I'd say yes, because otherwise, I think my friends would think I was a selfish prick if I said no every time they asked for something I have an abundance of.
I was not saying that the truck had no value or that DM didn't want one, but it would be an exaggeration to say that making 3 phone calls and 2 test drives was a lot of time to expend on buying a truck. It would actually be the normal procedure for buying a truck, would it not? What I was saying is that there is no motive for DM to steal a truck when he had plenty if money to buy one, and there are plenty of examples of him spending large amounts of money buying and modifying vehicles. My point was that I would think that someone who has no money and no vehicles would have far more reason to steal a truck than someone who does. And again, if stealing a truck was what they set out to do, why wouldn't they just steal it when no one was looking, like the majority of car thefts? If one goes in with the theory they they were car thieves running a chop shop, they would be expected to know better and easier and safer ways to steal a vehicle.
And I have to say, I still think that it is possible that DM was not at those test drives. I honestly don't think that LE even know for sure how many people were there that night, so how can we really trust that they know exactly who those people were for sure? Mistakes happen, especially early on in cases when there seems to be an avalanche of information. Some of that information is bound to be wrong, but in a high profile case such as this, I imagine that it is very hard and embarrassing for LE to go back and admit that they have made mistakes, in my opinion. I would still like to hear from anyone who thinks that DM was more likely to have killed TB than MS, and why they think that. Thanks in advance.
