I don't think we're going to hear about the 'results' of this investigation overnight. IMHO, because of the amount of forensics involved, plus the additonal info needed, the background info (ie their life and financials, etc), it's going to be a couple of weeks before the results are in. Even then it could be merky, imo.
It seems simple as whatever happened that night, it happened within a 60 second period, imho. Once the 'shooting' began, it had to have taken place quickly, or someone else would have been able to get away, just like the husband managed to.
I stick by my 'gut instinct' in that I don't think it was the wife. I believe this was a premeditated act on behalf of the husband. I could be wrong and IF proven such, I'll be the first to admit it. But,.............I don't think so.
What makes me believe that? The husband took waayyy too long to report the incident. IF it had happened as he said, he would have either tried to save the kids, unless he's a complete COWARD (which I feel he is because I believe he killed his defenseless family) and he would have summoned help hours earlier than he did.
IF he did it, imho, he took that time to stage the scene to make his WIFE look like the perp. He may even succeed at that endeavor too. About the only evidence, within the vehicle that could be looked at under a microscope is the gun residue and the tragectory of the bulletts.
If done in a certain way, it COULD look as if the wife is the one who discharged all the bulletts. Say she was sitting there with her window down and the husband comes up behind her, kills her first, leans over her, shoots the kids, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam,.............all of the shots would appear to come from the wife's sitting position. Then all he'd need to do is use her dead hand to fire off the shot that struck him in the thigh. IF the LE handling the case misses anything, it COULD look as if she did it.
The study of the gun residue is merky at best. I've been reading up on it and if LE didn't handle this with the utmost of care, this case will end with the wife coming in as the guilty party. I pray that while LE is looking into the gun residue on the wife's hands and clothing, they also take into account the # of times the gun was fired, do SEVERAL test runs with a technician, and see just HOW MUCH RESIDUE is on the tech's hands after dispensing the gun that many times. THAT might be a detail not taken into consideration, should the husband turn out to be the perp.
But.....................fwiw, and IF it was the husband who did this, he may not have done all of his homework, and let's hope that's the case here. You see, if it happened as he said, he would have been sitting in the driver's seat as she shot at him, or he was rolling out of the car to get away from her. Well, the gun residue doesn't just appear on the perp and their clothing, it also appears splattered out in the direction of the shot as well; which would mean gun residue coming towards the driver's side, maybe on the door, the driver's seat, and the steering wheel as well as the steering column, must be present and coming from the proper direction.
There's also the sticky little thing called finger prints. Not just prints on the handle of the gun, but the bulletts, the casings, the trigger. Because of the multiple of shots fired, I'm assuming this HAD to have been an automatic, which, IF I'm not mistaken, takes a mechanism that you pull back to begin firing. Face it, if her prints or palm print aren't on that and there are NO prints on it, the gun was 'wiped.'
I still say IF the husband did this, he had plenty of time to wash himself off and change his clothes. IF he changed his clothes, I hope LE checked his luggage and IF nothing found there, they have search dogs go into that area and LOOK for his clothes he MAY have been wearing when the crime occurred.
Like they say, 'the devil is in the details.'
JMHO
fran