Happy new year, everyone!!
Had to go back over the last couple days of posts and catch up. You guys are relentless little bulldogs on this case + it's excellent! Even things that we all aren't in agreement on - it's just awesome to see how so many angles and scenarios are thoroughly examined.
Not sure where to start but I'm just picking back up + the most compelling thing I am contemplating tonight is revisiting the profile of who may have done this... I'm holding off on writing my best guess ideas at this point, but I believe the following:
1) The culprit(s) has/have already been questioned by LE. That is, if one person did this, that person has been questioned already...and if more than one person did this, at least one of them has already been questioned.
2) Jessica knew the person(s).
3) There was some degree of pre-meditation based on the use of accelerant. I don't know how precisely planned this was, but some forethought was given.
4) Whether anyone involved was a psychopath is not beyond reason, but I also would add that anyone involved may have been a long-term, habitual drug user...that can also really affect and even kill personality, and it's horrifying - that individual's sense of basic human empathy could be as damaged as that of someone with psychopathic tendencies.
5) I would be surprised if more than two people were directly involved in carrying this out.
6) He/she/they are still around, in town, etc. Sudden absence or fleeing the town would be suspicious. But then, this person/these people don't expect to be caught for this.