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Saul :welcome4:!!
So you are a long term lurker, first time poster huh? Well, I'm glad you weighed in on the discussion. Love your first line and your out of the box thinking~~that is just what we need here~~different perspectives.
You are absolutely right~~I think in all the posts I've read~~you have expressed what most of us here on these threads having been saying all along~~but you so eloquently stated it.
I'll try and answer your nagging question though, but it is just my opinion. It is almost like mob thinking. This is a very very small sleepy town. Mischicot is not Manitowoc for sure. The Avery's were the town's junk men~~they were dirty, uneducated, basically the town trash, disposable trash no less. They definitely were not the Randant's adding to the value of the community. When SA was exonerated, he brought disgrace to the town and town folk. He brought this little sleepy town into the spotlight and not in a good way. Not in a $36M dollar way! These were hardworking middle class people who were now going to pay this lower class citizen a lot of money that inevitable was going to cost all of the citizens more money in the form of higher taxes. Add to that, with the money he could join the local golf club, if he so desired. They had already witnessed him go out and buy a very very nice truck. With $36m, he could join the upper echelon of society, whether they liked it or not. They didn't want him there~~he was the trash man.
So, you have all of these town folks who have grown up with each other with their biases against the Avery family. Prejudiced if you will. Adding to the situation, you have three boys growing up being the outcasts of the town who get into trouble, break the law on occasion. Are not nice to women at ALL. This gets around town adding to the prejudice. So, you have all of these LE, who have been taught from a very young age to dislike the Avery's. IMHO, I think it was that prejudice that fueled their desire to run rogue over this crime scene. I truly believe all of LE in MCSD believed he was responsible and therefore set out to prove it by any means possible.
Of course, all JMHO.