bbm and excellent thinking. Although from the looks of RoH he wouldn't have luck attacking a flea let alone a woman as strong physically and spiritually as Pat. IMHOO I still think ReH could have been an unwilling lure, perhaps she went into it with RoH saying, "we just need to talk to her" or mitigating the intentions.
Obviously Pat is having none of this and fights back and gets out of the truck down the road. My thinking on the cap is that it was sitting on the seat or hanging from the mirror (etc) in the vehicle and in the scuffle she was able to grab it and toss it out. In keeping with this, I could see the money clip laid inside of the hat. While we know the money clip was found with the hat we never heard if any money was in the clip and perhaps LE is holding onto that info. I do not see the perp having a hat ripped from his head and letting it sit out there in the elements to implicate him or her. I bet he/she never knew they were missing it until it came out in the news.
Further speculation on my part... but I could almost see RH owing the X something (money, land, etc) and threatening harm to Pat if he didn't pay up (or even thinking that he could get at the x thru Pat). Perhaps he thought he could convince her to 'talk' to him and it went all wrong and fast. It would certainly fit with his history of getting money in any way possible (cow burning incident) and the speculation on his abusive tendencies. With his recent *cough* liquidations of his livestock and farm he seems like a man in some sort of financial straits.
moo. moo. moo.
Her partial plates would indicate a scuffle. If the hat & clip was by the teeth, I'd say he lost them in the scuffle. If the hat/clip was at a different location she probably grabbed them and threw them. I don't know if all 3 were found in the same location. Anyone know or remember?
We heard a
rumor that the witness that saw the red truck saw someone shuffling around leaves like he was looking for something on the ground or in the ditch (not sure which). I don't know if that was true or not. Most likely it was probably too dark to ID the man since he couldn't even tell the color of the truck for sure. I think it was said (rumor) the guy was alone, so that would mean he came back afterwards to look for his lost things (hat and money clip).
By the way, does anyone recall if the red truck had 2 or 4 doors? Also, anyone know if the front seat was a bench type seat or bucket?
If it was a 2 door with bucket seats, most likely there were only 2 people (Ro & Pat). If it was a bench seat, there could have been 3 in the front seat. But most likely Pat would have been in the middle and unable to escape the truck.
If it was a 4 door with bucket seats with 3 people, then most likely two people would have rode in the backseat with one person driving. Mrs. H could have drove with Mr. H and Pat in the back or Mr. H driving with Mrs. H in the back with Pat. Either way, Pat could have tried to escape if it was a 4 door with bucket seats.
Since there are so many witnesses for the inquisition, I'm wondering how many of them are people "finally" coming forward saying that RH owned that hat and money clip? If so, why did they wait so darn long?
