wendybtn
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Watched the documentary today. Well worth the rental fee. The main thing that stuck with me was there were 2 guys out at the side/back of the property. They watched the owners son run in there and back out without having to knock or lock/unlock anything. The crime happened very shortly thereafter. The two guys must have had guns on them already, perhaps (1 theory) they were making their way across Texas/New Mexico doing crash-cash-shoot jobs. Perhaps they were in between jobs in Las Cruces, or even casing the place. But when they saw there were no locks, perhaps they impulsively decided to rob it without casing it, which is one reason they missed a lot of cash, plus the number of people inside threw them. Who was inside made no matter, because they shoot the people no matter what. Perhaps they were expecting only a bookkeeper or two. But once they were inside, their agreement was to leave no witnesses or survivors, no exceptions.
The other thing I thought was they were on foot when they were seen by the son. Afterwards, they thought the fire department and police would respond in maybe 30 minutes and knew they had to be off the streets before then. After a certain amount of time, leave town, never return. They would have been fools to be on the roads or highways in New Mexico or an adjoining state that weekend. JMO. Very moving story. Have your kleenexes nearby. Very well done but I disliked the part where the documentarian implied via questioning that the personality of the owner and whether people liked him or not was a motive. This crime was too horrific for that. The guy's kids helped run it and he seemed to be at least semi-retired at that time. He was rarely at the business.
The other thing I thought was they were on foot when they were seen by the son. Afterwards, they thought the fire department and police would respond in maybe 30 minutes and knew they had to be off the streets before then. After a certain amount of time, leave town, never return. They would have been fools to be on the roads or highways in New Mexico or an adjoining state that weekend. JMO. Very moving story. Have your kleenexes nearby. Very well done but I disliked the part where the documentarian implied via questioning that the personality of the owner and whether people liked him or not was a motive. This crime was too horrific for that. The guy's kids helped run it and he seemed to be at least semi-retired at that time. He was rarely at the business.