I have been trying to keep up with this blog after finding it, because my wife I live close, Newton County, in a good neighborhood past 18 years and it is scary. We are a retired couple, my wife is retired RN, Me proud Navy Vet transferred here 1980 and I retired after 35 years service from a large company 1997. We do not know anything about this terrible crime, but I have wanted to post my opinion, of what could have happened. I see this horrific crime starting from a theft of items maybe thousand dollars or less that would only be missed by the Dermonds and not their children. I believe LE is seeing this crime as high dollar I don't see it that way. Did any service technicians have key or garage door code to their home not unusual. I am sure 99.999 % are all good but maybe a bad one. Who would you open door for and never question, if it was not family? Could Shirley have noticed that her gold watch, and silver or gold coin set was stolen or missing and they knew only one person had access to their home and this person was told or called. I would think most older people, myself included if they had something stolen, and house was not broken into would tell a friend his thoughts about a thief and warn him to be careful, if the person came to his home, and would not call LE to avoid getting that involved if it was of little value. Some would call person he thought responsible, others would just cancel service. I read nothing was taken from Dermonds home. Coins would not be missed by anyone and could have a lot of value. I would guess most older people collect or have collected coins. Example about 5 months ago my wife asked her friend for help with taking our silver coins to Conyers a place, located on Honey Creek Rd. for a buyer, she split them up and after 5 trips they were sold, some we had over 50 years I had no idea how many we had or what they were worth until she sold them. If person sells large amount in this location, where my wife went you must show ID, I think Lin said they copied her DL, they keep records of what you sold, that is good thing. I wonder if large amounts were sold in May or June. I hope LE would check on this. Our girls, would have no idea of how many coins if any we had and I doubt Dermond's boys and daughter did either..
This is just my opinion only and I know some will think it not very good one, Mr Dermond could have told the person he thought that had stolen from him, saying you are the only one that has been here and threatened to call LE if item's were not returned. What Mr. Dermond did not know the person he was talking to was a monster, that thought he would be fired or go to jail if he was reported. This set plan in motion he was lured down to boat dock by a well planned motive, then Shirley came looking for him, both were forced to board boat, at gun point or he could have been caught off guard in his yard. Mr. Dermond under pressure told these men that he had told his friend about the theft thinking they might spare him and his wife . The beheading was to send a message to his friend. I only know one thing for sure, If you have been married over 50 years and you are out of your wifes sight, longer than 10 minutes she comes looking for you. We have been Married over 50 years.
This may be nothing but I want to write what happened 6:00 PM Aug. 1, 2014 at our home this could be another way how the Dermonds were caught off guard, our motion sensor alarm for front porch sounded, I went and looked at monitor and told wife that tall heavy set white man about 40 with goatee was standing up against porch column , than he came on porch rang door bell and hit glass on storm door and backed off porch, to the column, this went on about five minutes he would never stay on porch, my big black lab, was barking loud all the time, first time for her to bark at anyone, she always wants to greet, wagging her tail when doorbell rings, not this time. He turned and went down side of house and got off camera. I went in the bathroom, peeped out window, he was standing by our truck on drivers side. I thought he could be trying to steal our truck. I returned to door and opened just enough for me to shout as loud as I could, we were going to call 911, I have you on camera . He must have heard me, and the 911 got his attention as he came from side of house back in my view, loud voice said he was checking our roof. He was out of yard in a flash. This man did not park his car into our driveway. He had parked his little red car out front on the opposite side of street, and he walked in. I don't know if he was alone or not because of trees in our yard hard to see and I was afraid to go on the porch and look. I wish now we had called 911 but at the time I was afraid we did not have emergency as he did not try to break in our house. This man could have wanted to check our roof, I don't know why and we have good roof, and I was not taking any chances. We do not open door for strangers. We had received a strange phone call, our caller ID showed 000-000-0000 and later this man showed up.
I know my views are different from most, my wife said go post them any way.
Moderator this is my first post please delete my post if I did anything wrong. I was afraid to use word's service and Technicians in my post but I decided they are only generic word's.