I agree. Especially with regards to BJM. She seemed to be close to them coming to feed the dogs ect. Then there was Br who was TR's son iirc who was best friends with FR and even lived with them shortly before the murders. Last but not least was DS who seemed to also be around a lot. I can't see any one of those three being left out of anything going on even if it was just overhearing conversations between the others.
Iirc CRsr and KR were the only ones who stood by CR when he went to prison and after he got out. The daughters all moved away and it seems CRsr ended up with their part of the land (through sales or them giving it to him). That shows a definite rift there. Also what about the Stone children that CR and GR were said to have raised. Would they have felt entitled to some part of that land?
I also have a struggle with the money part. These were not rich people, in fact DR worked as a nurse aide at what was probably low wages and Crsr and Fr seemed to be employed only part time at BBL. HR was employed at the same nursing home but had been off work. CRjr doesn't seem to have even a part time job nor did HG. We now know the mj thing was small time so probably wasn't generating that much income. So where did the money (30,000.00 cash iirc) come from that CRsr paid down for DR's house? Granted part of that could have come from a tax refund at that time of the year. With DR working a low paying job and having 2 kids and a grandchild living with her she could have gotten up to a 12,000.00 tax refund with EIC and the CTC without having paid in any federal withholdings (I have seen this happen many times over with underemployed parents with 3 or more children which of course they were legally entitled to under the IRS tax code.) But that is only half. Where did the rest come from? And all the other land CRsr was buying not to mention that huge building he had built that looked fairly new. Money and a lot of it was flowing in from somewhere but it is beyond me to see where it came from. (I would love to get a look at their tax returns and bank statements lol) Could all that seeming prosperity have been cause for resentment?
There could have been many reasons for hatred and resentment to build up especially with the Stone side of the family who would have been raised with the Rhoden kids. Did they feel slighted during their childhood and adult life? DS is the son of one of GR's brothers iirc (one she raised?) and could he have felt that same resentment? I don't think we have given much thought to that side of the family since we only recently learned that CR and GR took them in and raised them. Mostly relationships between the Rhodens and Manleys have been discussed. But what about the Stone children of which DS would have been a part of?
So many questions with regards to family dynamics and no answers. sigh
I'm just thinking and putting it down. Forgive any rambling.
BR is Brandon's father. TR has one son who is also named Tony. TR seems very close w/his mother. Protective. BR is the eldest son and TR is next. The female siblings don't seem to have gotten anything for their part of the land. (That can, even though they probably signed it over willingly, still leave a burr under the saddle years later.) The family also fixed up and sold those cars together, then, with the amount of pot they were raising, it may not be a huge amount, but it would have given them a decent amount of extra cash, un-taxed, even after it was split up, in addition to any other under-the-table work they did for BBL, or shade-tree mechanic work, or just work that they did for barter. Barter is still a way of life in small communities. They did not seem to live an extravagant lifestyle (other than their hobby of derbies and they did their own mechanics and welding with that). KR had recently landed a job too, which I found it odd, that he would be taking a day off that soon to just go work on cars w/DS (New job and all, js.).
Based on Google Earth and the Pike County Property Maps:
In as early as 2005, it appears that the smaller garage was there, between CR1 & FR's trailer, and large gardens were raised on the property.
FR's trailer was there as early as 2009 from what I can tell, and it looks as if someone, most likely KR was living in the yellow house.
In 2010 there was no trailer on Camp Creek. In 2014 there is one. It appears that CR1 bought the property in 2010.
In 5/2012 there was no large barn, and it still appears someone may be living in the yellow house. There is only one camper on the Left Fork address (KR) and I
think it was rented to someone.
In 2014, the large barn appears.
In 2014 the Left Fork property gains a couple campers or a camper and outbuilding.
After the appearance of the large barn, the property begins to become more cluttered. The gardens appear to be no more.
I have wondered throughout this if there could have been some sort of inner split among the closer knit members, and one was possibly involved, but taken out at the end, so as to not leave any witnesses. Idk. I think we are going to be very surprised even with all of our theories, when this finally shakes out.
Edit: BR has another son, Jacob.