RAISINISBACK
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Interesting, I looked up that incident.
No doubt plenty of dealers went there to stock up for resale in the big cities, too.
Kermit has a long history of enriching itself through silently sanctioning illegal schemes, beginning with insurance fraud in the '70s. http://people.com/archive/almost-he...a-was-more-like-the-other-place-vol-30-no-20/
However, it never seems to have led to anyone being murdered,.
Anyhow, their illegal pill scheme, back then when the rules were much looser than now, depended on a corrupt pharmacist and corrupt doctors, and, given the risks they were taking, I don’t think they’d have handed any potential profits over to a nursing assistant and her extended family.
I think if this Ohio crime had been drug-related, it wouldn’t have been a massacre. All the perp would have had to do was threaten to cause harm to any of the children, or hurt one person, or at the extreme kill one person, to have gotten what they wanted. Dealers don’t want to draw the FBI to the area, intensely nosing around.
BBM
I agree with you on that. I too think that if it were some type drug organization they would have just taken out the ones who were actually involved in selling the drugs.
But I was thinking more like the R's threatened to talk to authorities. That a falling out occurred with their partners and they were threatening to rat them out so to speak. I also think that if those partners were the W's that there would have been some hate/revenge also, since JW is SW, HR's daughter's father. Remember, according to LM. BW and CR1 had an altercation a couple of weeks before the murders because The W's were pressuring HR to give up her parental rights to SW.