So this mother and her two daughters, seeing the boys in their backyard minutes before they were murdered, didn't think it was important enough to report to the police in 1993, even though LE was pleading for any information about the boys' movements that night.
Riiiiight.
One other point. Chris's brother, Ryan, was questioned by the police a few days after the murders. He never once mentioned this supposed conversation with Jamie Ballard, in which she claimed to have seen the three boys right before they were murdered.
It's bogus. Never happened.
Since they saw the boys with Terry Hobbs, I guess they thought he would tell the police.
It was only after they found out that Terry Hobbs denied seeing the boys that day that they realized that they had important information. When Ryan saw Jamie Ballard, he had just learned that his brother was dead. He might not have thought his conversation with Jamie was important as she probably also told him that the boys were with Terry at the time she saw them. Ryan, as a child, was probably not aware that Terry had claimed no contact with the boys.
It all goes back to Terry Hobbs. Did he see the boys that day? The neighbors say that he did. David Jacoby even mentions seeing the boys going down the street when Terry was coming over to play guitars. I believe that Jacoby thought that the boys had been with Terry right before Terry went into Jacoby's house.
Consider this scenario. Terry and Amanda come back from taking Pam to work to find Stevie and his friends at Terry's house. Stevie is eating his supper, at least he's eating his green beans. (This would account for the green vegetable matter found in Stevie's stomach at autopsy.) Stevie begs Daddy Terry to let him play with his friends just a while longer. Terry gives in because he wants to go to Jacoby's to play guitars. He tells Stevie to be back home in an hour. The boys go off and Terry goes to Jacoby's taking Amanda with him. Jacoby sees the boys in the street when he opens the door to let Terry and Amanda into the house. This is about 5:15 or 5:30 pm.
Terry plays guitars with Jacoby for about an hour and then tells Jacoby that he wants to go check to be sure Stevie came back home. The boys are returning to the Hobbs house at about the time that Terry (and Amanda) gets back. This is when Jamie and her sister (is her name Brandi?) see them. Terry shouts at the boys to come home, and they appear to go in that direction. Jamie and her sister get in the car to go to church. The boys, however, ride past Terry which enrages him. (I have a theory that the reason that they ran from Terry was that Stevie, having finally had enough abuse at Terry's hands, had decided to run away and was planning on staying in their "secret hideout" [a manhole] until his maternal grandparents could be contacted to come and get him.) Terry is aware of the RHH woods as a play area (although he denies it, but then admits it during his 2007 deposition), and he thinks that that's where the boys are going. He takes Amanda back to the Jacoby's and tells David that Stevie is not home. David insists on helping him search. They take a cursory (15 minute) look around the neighborhood. Terry takes David back home, saying he's going to look one other place. He follows the boys to the manhole, intending to punish Stevie for his disobedience. The punishment gets out of hand, and he has to eliminate the witnesses.
He hides the bodies in a convenient manhole (or perhaps murders them in the manhole), but he returns to the manhole during the searching (remember, he was the only one who admitted to going into the BB woods, which are adjacent to the RHH woods and which is where I believe the manhole to be) to check on things, and he returns in the wee hours of the morning to remove the bodies (believing that there might be some evidence of him on the bodies or in the manhole). First, he tries to put Stevie's jeans on him (since Pam told the police he was wearing jeans, but he is actually wearing red shorts according to one person's sighting). When he can't get the jeans on Stevie, he undresses all of the boys so that Stevie won't look different from the others. (Remember, Stevie's jeans were
not inside out, but the other clothing was.) He "buries the bodies underwater" (as he tells his girlfriend, Sharon Nelson, later), puts the bikes in the bayou, puts the clothes into the ditch (securing them with sticks) and waits for the bodies to be found.
Now, consider this scenario. Three devil worshiping teens happen upon the boys playing in the RHH woods when they go there to swim and possibly have sex in a dirty drainage ditch. They decide to kill them because it's almost a full moon and it's close to a Wiccan holiday (even though Wiccan holidays have nothing to do with devil worshiping). They just happen to have some Visqueen handy to put under the bodies so there's no blood left at the scene. They hit the boys with their fists and big ol' sticks, all the time managing to keep all activity on the Visqueen (even though one boy runs off and has to be brought back), but no evidence of these blows appears on the boys
or the teens. The teens are drunk, yet they leave the scene so clean that there is
absolutely no physical evidence that the teens were ever there. They dump the bodies in a handy ditch and go on about their lives. One of them even goes to school the next day.
Which scenario seems more plausible to you?
