Ah yes...and this particular bit
>>"I will kill his wife and kids .. in their sleep."<<
First of all, was that "ellipsis" included in that threat? Or was there text in that position and someone else inserted the ellipsis there? So...there is a dot missing in the ellipsis. Was that how Chris did these?
And about the threat... Did the Phantom murderer state he was going to do what he did while Chris was in the home laying next to the sleeping wife? Or did they know that he didn't sleep next to her, he slept in the basement? If he knew that he slept in the basement, then he could have guessed Chris wasn't attached to the wife. In fact, if he knew Chris because he was watching him (as he said, "I know Chris' schedule), OH MY GOSH...a thought here...
A. IF the phantom had been watching Chris, could he be assured that when Chris left for the gym that the wife didn't wake up at the same time, and would thus not be sleeping when he entered the house through a window that was never entered?
B. BUT AND BUT... IF the Phantom could figure out how to remotely access Chris' computer, then he was also smart enough to read the little blips about how Tara changed Chris' life and her bra size, right? IF he had been watching Chris, he knew that Chris had been sleeping with a mistress. IF he had been watching Chris, he knew that it wasn't Chris' family that was important to him, it was the mistress. SHE would have been the Phantom's target, and a threat letter would have noted that. Right? Wouldn't Chris have gotten a threat like "Hey Chris, I know about your girlie. When you are away from Florida, I'm going to take her out, buy her some bling, take her on a cruise and party with her and then well, you know BOOM BOOM."
A Phantom murderer who could access Chris' computer remotely (even to the point of knowing how to "power it on" somehow), would certainly have been clever enough to open some of Chris' most recent documents. That murderer would have realized that it was NOT killing Chris' family that would hurt him. He would have gone for the gold -- the girlie.