BeginnerSleuther
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Hoax—First, their reaction to the letters just didn’t match the threat IMO. I mean the letters were creepy for sure and way more than just “vaguely” threatening, especially regarding the children. The police were right to investigate it. But they were just letters—anonymous letters. To make them completely abandon their one million plus dream house they just spent $100,000 renovating and moving all their stuff in and to move in with parents instead? Really? Seems a bit much. I would have been more angry than scared and would have just gotten a really good security system with cameras everywhere. I would have been prepared and aware at all times for IF something happened, but they seemed to really go off the deep end with fear.
Well, you don't know about their history though. Had they been the victims of crime before? Maybe a victim of a stalker? People who've been traumatized by crime/bullying/harassment in the past are going to react much stronger to it if it happens again. That's been proven with victims of all kinds of crime.
I, myself, was the victim of a home intruder. You better believe when I come home at night, if I'm alone, and something is amiss, I'm right back there to that awful night. I have a protection now, but it will always be in the back of my mind.
So I can imagine a scenario where maybe there's something in the past that still haunts one or both of them and it amplified this situation.
Anyway, the reason I'm back on this thread is because it came up when I searched for the Circleville Letters. The Websleuths thread on Circleville has been deleted and I'm not sure why. Was it solved? 48 Hours is doing something on it tonight so I wanted to alert people to it.