Wow! Love new posters here with different perspectives and geographical locations!
I am at a loss in this case. My main questions are
1.) Cause of death.
2.) Location of death. (You cannot convince me that LE doesn't know if he died at Larry's or not.. It should also be clear how long he was there based on decomposition. A body sitting out in the open exposed to elements will decompose differently than someone kept inside a trunk until Monday night especially considering there was rainfall on Saturday.)
3.) What lead LE to Larry's RV?
4.) Have trap kids statements been verified through cell phone pings and/or interviews and/or lie detector tests? Just because someone states it as fact does not mean it's true particularly if they have something to hide.
5.) Where is the backpack mentioned by the roommate that Tom took with him when he left the dorm that fateful night?
6.) Video... I've driven the path between the trap house and the residence hall. There are several visible cameras throughout NDSU campus.
If there were any decent media outlets around, these are the questions they should ask, IMO.
We have respectfully disagreed on aspects of this case in the past, but I think you are spot on with those questions. Specifically 1-4.
1) Even if they don't know the exact COD (though I expect they do by now), at the very least LE has been able to eliminate many causes. I would like to know what those are.
2) Knowing whether or not the murder occurred at the RV place would tell a lot about the way the murder went down. If he was killed there then the obvious question would be why was he there? If he was dropped there after he died then it would tell us that the location of the murder probably was a place that would make it easier to identify a suspect. Otherwise, why move the body?
3) There was a story on the nightly news that said it was an "interview" that lead police to the body. It was a newscaster who used that word so I don't know if it is accurate. If that was the case then the person who directed police to that location would have to know more about the circumstances of his death. If it was a "tip" (like the people who owned the RV place called police to tell them there was a dead body on the premises) then it would be less meaningful.
4) To me this is the big one. I have never accepted the statement that he left the house at 3:40am as a fact. I haven't heard any verification from LE on that statement, and there is reason to be suspicious about the guys who live at the house so unless that statement has been verified it means nothing to me. If this can't be verified, a lot of the suspicion should fall on the guys at the house.
5) I still don't think the simple fact that he had a backpack with him is out of the ordinary. I have always thought that he was probably carrying drugs or alcohol. Leaving his dorm late on a Friday night to go meet friends...I'm sure he didn't have his biology books in there. In college I left my dorm room late on a weekend night with a backpack on many occasions, and in most cases the backpack was to carry along my good friend Jack Daniels. But I would like to know if the backpack has been found, and more importantly if it has been found I would like to know where.
6) I think NDSU has admitted that some cameras were not functional, but there has to be SOME footage of him as he walked across campus. I'm sure it's not super HD video, but enough to verify when he left his dorm and around the time he was supposed to return. I assume at least a few cameras were functional.
