I'm interested in knowing the nature of JS's problems with his biological family. Was it so bad that JS could not or did not wish to live with them again if ever he was no longer welcome in the Pleskovic home? Also: I have read about every adult family member's source of income except for Jeffrey's (and of course, Kyle's.) I'n mot assuming that JS didn't work, but if so: what was his job? Did it allow him a lot of free time or independence from the actual job location--if he did work?
If Jeffrey had been the only one to report "suspicious activity" he had witnessed on Burning Star Drive, I believe he would have begun to look less credible in the eyes of LE. In fact: the report in the 911 call Melinda made the Thursday prior to her death was not as an actual witness, but relaying information that she was getting from JS. Items stolen and/or property damage didn't require a real-time witness and could have been reported later--by whoever discovered it. These types of incidents could have lent JS more credibility since he did not need to be a witness or encourage someone to make a call.
Seems to me he was trying to manipulate an outcome to serve an agenda he had, and I can see several scenarios where he could have personally benefited by having that family nervous or fearful. Even if the Pleskovic surveillance/security was "conveniently" disabled at times: there were other homes quite near that may have revealed a different reality than the one JS seemed to be promoting. I truly believe he was--and is--a manipulator who possibly was trying to appear "the hero."
Could he have been trying to establish himself as an indispensable member of the family by creating a role as security guard and babysitter, a sort of back-up father figure/keeper of the house in a family with only two males and four females?
Here is the link which states that a high school friend of JS said he often had much to say about family problems not with the Pleskovic's, but his "own" family. Could circumstances at his own home have become unmanageable and/or was he required to get work and move out?
http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/cuya...is-a-big-hearted-guy-not-a-murderer/487830797
"I remember in high school when he would mention so much about how he was not happy with part of his family so for me to find out that there was a murder on the other side of the family, it's just a little awkward for me."
~HS friend of JS
