ItalicizedBM #1: That is the medication I was referring to. Perhaps it didn't make your children drowsy, but for many children--and adults--it does cause drowsiness. Children's diphenhydramine (name brand Benadryl) label (link below):
When using this product:
- Marked drowsiness may occur
Granted, the label also says not to give this medicine
only to make kids sleepy. However, I have personally known people who do it anyway. I have also personally transcribed office notes on pediatric patients whose physicians have advised
occasional use of Benadryl for this purpose in children who have trouble falling asleep and maintaining sleep.
Based upon my own personal experience of giving my children diphenhydramine to help control their seasonal allergies--and the drowsiness it caused in them--
it is my opinion that any of the W4 giving the children this medication, or a generic equivalent, could possibly cause them to
sleep more soundly than usual.
Children’s BENADRYL® Allergy Liquid | BENADRYL®
IBM #2: I understood both vehicles to be trucks. Were either or both of the trucks crew cabs? There would be plenty of cab space for one child or both children in back seat(s) plus an open truck bed, which with a crew cab could be approximately 5-1/2 feet if short bed and approximately 6-1/2 feet if long bed, to haul cargo (items removed from crime scenes). For that matter, the shooters could simply hop in the bed of either truck and leave the scene quickly as the truck drove by, especially easy to do if the tailgate is down.
IMO, it is also possible that if one truck was only a standard cab, that vehicle could have been simply used to haul away all the items stolen. It could have been parked somewhere out of sight in the general area and not actually taken to any crime scene. The other truck could have been driven by AW with the kids in the cab to each crime scene, and the three guys rode in the truck bed for quick exit/entry to do the shooting.
IBM #3: AW didn't necessarily have to stay in the vehicle with the kids if they were sleeping. IMO, the vehicles weren't parked directly in front of any of the crime scenes. They would be too easily seen by anyone driving by. IMO, the vehicles were somewhere close by, but not directly at the crime scenes. This would create more distance for any sound of gunshots to travel--making the gunshots less likely heard by the children.
Also, AW could have gone into any of the four crime scenes once the shooting was done, so she wouldn't be put in danger in case something had happened to GW4 or JW.
IBM #4: IMO, no "blasting" was done on CRSR's front porch, or else it would have awakened FR and HG in the trailer next door. If the gunshots were suppressed enough to not wake up any neighbors at any of the crime scenes, I find it hard to believe it would wake up two sleeping children in a nearby vehicle.
All my opinion.
