It could have been but it seems everything that has been talked about, (custody, the standing in the road w/weapons, the going to the other derby driver's house and knocking his dad's tooth out, CR2 getting slapped, the court date just the day before, CR2 bumping the guy's car & threats made),
had all happened within the last couple weeks or so before the murders occurred.
I may be wrong, and I'm a pretty detailed person when I do something, but I know it would take me longer than a a couple, three weeks to plan this out (not that I would), alone, but to plan it out w/two or more people who you trust, would be trickier. The murders they were ready to do, and could do, it's the planning of getting them all in place, and not getting caught.
I keep going back to Reader in the beginning. I don't think it was a hit man, b/c, nine times out of ten when someone in one of these little places tries to hire a hit man, it's someone who will go to a cop, or is an undercover cop.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-ohio-ag-pre-planned-execution-20160424-snap-story.html
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