Ok let's take CHSr' trailer
The murderer gets in the house somehow, doesn't know what to expect except they hope Chris and Gary are asleep. Do they know no one else is in there? If so how? Did they think Chris was alone?
They fire 12 shots ( if reports are true) not a get in get out with 2 shots like movies we've seen on tv. If no casings did they count the shots, turn on the lights to make sure they got the casings. They could land anywhere in the area of shots. Maybe the casings were there and BLM just didn't see them. In her state of shock I can see this happening.
Making these plans to do this, they thought ok I'm going through a window. How do they know a window would be open? Or how do they know when they leave by a window where their going to land? We're they behind the trailer another time to make this plan?
I would think when you go in to kill, you want in and out asap. Not knowing if someone heard the shots, not knowing the plans of Chris and Gary, heck someone might have been planning to stop by at midnight, 4 or ? In the morning. Or something could have happened at FR trailer and one of them run over to CRSr trailer at the time this was happening. Someone could be driving by.
This sounds like the dirty dozen where they rehearsed this over and over to get it right. Then it sounds like someone just decided to kill a family and let the chips fall where they may.
The same goes for FR, DR and KR.
Evidence-hairs, fibers, shoe prints, blood. Has to be some of this especially if anyone put up a fight.
Why even bother locking the doors at CHRSr or FRs? That makes no sense. If your not worried about someone walking in while your committing murder why worry after you leave?
Someone at some point was going to find dead bodies.
Then the distance from CHRSr to DR what a mile and a half? Did they kill then run that distance? How did they get on union hill rd? Had to have a vehicle because they went 10 mins to KR. Where was the vehicle? No matter what time of night anyone could have driven by and seen a vehicle.
We have 32 shots
9- CHRSr
3- GR
1- KR
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13
32 less 13 = 19
So 19 for FR, HG, DR, CRjr, HR
Overkill, makes no sense.
Someone trained and professional I doubt it.
Someone lucky that their targets were in place when doing this (wiping out a family) what if DR didn't come straight home from work, decided to spend the night someplace or work a triple. I say this because if the goal was to wipe out anyone that might know who the killer/killers were, anyone of the 8 could have been someplace else that night.
With multiple shooters the risk is high that one makes a mistake or talks after the fact.
None of it makes any damn sense. My brain is exhausted trying to figure out who and why.
It's like in the Haleigh Cummings case, many of us tried so hard to find the who and why, making a case for 6-7 + different people that could have done it. But here we are years later no knowing what happened to her. The who and why still out there. I hope I live long enough to know what happened to her and where she is. It's doubtful.
Anyway I'm rambling and confused as ever.
JMO
have at me..
Good analysis! Thanks. My brain is exhausted too. May I "have at" just a tad? From the beginning we have heard about premeditation and planning and cover up. I tend to see some professionalism here. Intel gathered, planning, carrying out of the mission. Rogue LE? They could pull it off, but I am skeptical of such an involvement. X-Military? Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan? I imagine that there are plenty of those folks around there back in the hills. They have been trained to kill and are efficient. I heard that there were no shell casings left about. This shows control and experience. I won't be surprised if there are no fingerprints either. These assassins were good and efficient. I do see training and professional elements here. A swift guerrilla attack in the night. Efficient and deadly. One or two persons? I see maybe 3 or 4. Hit the targets simultaneously. Take care of business and leave like ghosts in the night.
Pa used to say, "Cut off the head". The snake may trash about and bleed and rattle, but it can't bite anymore.
LM said "we ain't got revenge in our hearts". Seems an odd comment to me unless there is a message saying "enough". Then he says that he isn't saying no more. Several folks seem to be reluctant to say too much, and I don't know if it is only because of pressure from LE.
We have heard of activities where the Rhodens and associates would all head over, as a raiding group, to dispense punishment out to a target, bust them up, knock out some teeth and hightail it back to the home turf after somebody gets out a gun and fires in the air. No serious harm done and the teeth can be glued back in the dentures. (I got a kick out of that comment from one of the involved persons).
Ballistics would tell so much. How many weapons? How many different calibers? Are recovered slugs from the victims all matched to one or two guns, or many? 32 rounds is a lot of shots from one or two weapons. Overkill? Maybe, but you don't bother to count sometimes. Get the job done. You can shoot somebody a half dozen times before they fall dead. To be sure, kill shots to the heads and leave. Doesn't take long. This whole thing could have gone down in 10 minutes.
Why the money left on the body? That must be a message, but what? It is significant.
Did they die at a close time frame, or over many hours? We have so little factual info and much interesting and insightful speculation.
I won't be surprised to hear that Devil Anse done rose from his grave over on Tug Fork. Family honor, revenge, justice - Mountain style.
The surveys are interesting. It appears that many of us have similar suspicions, but the distribution of the results shows diversity in opinions.
