SAID........"possible"............. Dermond was not killed at the house, could be OUTSIDE the House? Or in another location, I think outside, possibly in garage, there was some blood there, right? But not alot of blood splatter? Or not enought to indicate a shooting in the garage correct?
Also, don't know why they think it was a gunshot, would love to know the answer to that pondering, I feel like it was also BFT, if it occurred in garage, if not, maybe shot outside, and drug back in the garage to hide him til their getaway and then, well, the rest of what they did to D, inside garage?
So now thinking again, why not leave them both or take them both? If he wasn't bleeding so much due to mortis, why not take him too if they were concerned about leaving a blood trail to the car or the dock, which wouldn't have been so much if after mortis set in and after beheading
1-for effect, someone wanted it to be known
2-hide evidence (why not take his body off too, see #1)
3-took SD only to confuse the investigative trail
To me, 1 and 3 makes the most sense
Also thinking, she was alive and could walk at the time of abduction, so walked willingly with perps, he would have had to be carried if already dead, so then it was easy to take her if she was alive, he was not, another reason he was left behind possibly?
So that would indicate, the perps wanted information from here that couldn't get from him? Didn't get it from her either, so BFT and lake because they had left the D's property, certainly wasn't going to go BACK to the crime scene I would think
For lack of blood in the garage, the beheading must've occurred an hour or more after his death? Could taken place in the garage, can't see this taking place in the yard, too much chance someone might drive up or boat up
But IDK, just thinking out loud
I HOPE, they went at the same time due to surprise BFT, so neither had to witness anything horrific
The more time goes by, the more I think that the killers were trying to get something big from them.. money, info, something.... or for retribution for something in the far distant past... And I keep thinking about Mr. D being beheaded.. why do that? And Mrs. D's body hidden in the lake...
No blood from Mr D and the dogs did not find a blood trail on the property or IIRC, on the vacant lots around them.
What if the killer somehow got him/them to a covered boat house with a wench, hung him up head down over the water and cut his head off? Plop, head goes in the water, he bleeds out. Maybe the head is not important, it was just lost?
Then they torture Mrs. D and finally kill her or she dies from the fright and they dump her. They take Mr. D back to the house as a sign for some reason..that they got what they wanted or didn't get what they wanted and would be looking for it from someone else involved? His headless body was taken there for a reason..
Gruesome, I know but....Years ago, before I moved to the country, there were three young men who tortured and killed an old couple who lived down the road. The couple was dirt poor but the rumor was the old man didn't trust banks and had a bunch of money hidden in cans in the yard. The boys tied them up and tortured them for days, going out and digging in the yard and not finding anything. They finally killed them.The boys were caught and sent to jail.