Backwoods
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Thing that jumps out at me is that at 5:30 they stopped at the antique store lost and even the folks at the store didn't know where the meeting place/road was.
How did they end up finding it then? Maybe JT turned his phone off for "safety" and waited for them, but as it got late and the couple still wasn't there he turned it back on and called them? Otherwise how did they find the road on their own and how long had the killer been there waiting to see if they showed up? Hours?
I would think they were heading towards JT's home/trailer, did he talk to them on the phone and say "I will meet you on the road and you can follow me" and that is where it all happened?
This sounds very plausible to me. I have been going over in my mind, why they would drive all the way down to Jacksonville Scotland Road, and then be killed 3 miles north. It just didn't make any sense. I think that you're right though. I believe that the Runions finally reached JT on his cell, and he told them to drive to County Road 145 to meet him.
I agree that this is one way it could have happened. IIRC, LE did not want to release whether the last call on the Runions' phone was an incoming or an outgoing one, and something like this could be part of the reason why.
Another way it could have been is that the road the Runions asked directions to was not the final destination in the instructions they'd received earlier from the "seller" -- it was just the one they had trouble finding. Maybe they had additional instructions, from there, directing them to the dirt road where they were found.
Or, as I hypothesized earlier in the threads, the "seller" (and I'm not completely convinced yet that it was Jay they talked to, though it sure MAY have been) may have given the intersection as a place to meet and told them, "I'll meet you there and then you can follow me from there -- my long old driveway (maybe he called it) is kind of hard to pick out from among all the dirt tracks and drives and logging roads if you don't know the way. especially in the dark."
Cripes! In the dark! I hate even thinking about the scenarios.
A little O/T but: A close relative just told me today that last NIGHT, way in the night, he accompanied a friend to one of the Carolinas (I didn't catch which) to buy a car from a Craigslist ad for the friend's wife. I said: "Y'all must be crazy!" He said all went well but did say all concerned seemed a wee bit nervous...until finally somebody actually said something (referencing this case) about how Craigslist transactions can be "a little scary". I'll say! My relative and his friend did follow some "safety tips" like one of them staying in the car with a phone at hand while the other got out and talked to the guy, etc. -- but if someone walks up with a gun pointed at you, well, how much is that gonna help?