Winning- by all accounts Todd detested his mom and stepfather. He was 17 almost an adult why is he going to take a fall or be forced to confess for something he didn't do? Heck, if I hate someone at they try to blackmail me regarding insurance fraud I go to the authorities because I know that gets them locked up. He had lived on his own for a time when he was 17 he had less than a year before he could be free of them. It makes no sense at all that he was a part of some big R family scam.
I'm just repeating w hat was speculation and rumored since that fire occurred. I think the step children in that home were treated viciously and most likely craved love. I was not behind closed doors in that home, I can only repeat what I know from living right there. I believe you would be hard pressed to find a neighbor of herb that well lets just say wasn't very suspicious. I'm not saying Todd did or didn't do anything, I'm saying that it was speculated in the immediate community that this was not all Todd. Why he would go along if he did I cannot answer. Again, maybe he was trying to gain acceptance or love - maybe he truly feared his step father. I don't know - just speculation among the community all those years ago.
Maybe, I am skeptical because nobody is sleuthing anyone. It must have been TS. As, I mentioned earlier I witnessed a man detained after finding his wife and child murdered and another child brutally attacked (she died alone because dad must have done it) he was separated had a girlfriend, fought over money, and he was the last one to see them alive. He also found the bodies with my cousin. He was tried in the public eye and thought guilty. Because why would a stranger do this, how? It had to be the husband because a bitter divorce was coming. Well, against what statistics say it was not him. DNA and a confession proved it was a worker That had done work for them on their property. I guess since then I am less likely to assume anything. This man's children and wife were taken from him. The community turned against him. The police followed him, destroyed his apartment, questioned, accused and basically ruined a great man- all on he must have done it.
We have no idea what evidence the cops have. Could he have done it sure, I just do not want to be part of the lynch mob until they give us some evidence more than circumstantial that Ts was involved. I have seen circumstantial evidence destroy an innocent man once before.