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• Shortly after 10:30 p.m., a CCSO deputy was instructed to divert to headquarters and get a large tent to cover evidence potentially exposed to the elements.
• Interior and exterior crime scene perimeters were taped off, and a crime scene log was kept of everyone who entered the crime scene.
SLED June 21 Update: New documents released in Murdaugh homicides
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This article is new to me -- "interior and exterior crime scene" points to the possibility of B&E? or at least engaging one or both of the victims in a building (IMO the caretaker cottage).
Additionally, this is one of the articles that describes the bodies as found outside their house ("...victims on the ground outside the residence...") near the kennels. Again, sounds to me like the caretaker cottage. "Outside the residence" doesn't seem to fit with the main dwelling four football fields away and nowhere near the kennels. The deputy sees a house a few hundred feet away and refers to it "the residence."
Augusta Chronicle writer: "Their bodies were found outside the residence, relatively close to each other, on the ground near a dog kennel."
SLED June 21 Update: New documents released in Murdaugh homicides
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What I'm picturing now is: PM is staying in the caretaker cottage during the summer break. He may be a little worse for the wear with his recent court hearing, death threats, and probably no friends and no parties. In his sober moments, he might be clinically depressed and feeling remorse -- like he's ruined his life. MM knows AM is running late, so as the loving and concerned mother she seems to be, MM's down checking in with her son, maybe brought him dinner, maybe trying to keep his mind off his situation, maybe they are watching a movie. The hit man/men show up . They might only have knocked on the door and were probably only looking for PM, but they don't want a witness. They march them both outside (IMHO out across the driveway and around a loosely wooded area to left of kennels) where evidence could be distorted by weather and animals or not found at all in the leaves and brush. It's neater -- no walls to capture a stray bullet, no blood splatter patterns, etc. They tell MM to run but then shoot her (I don't know if she was shot in the back but this works if they were trying to spare her the anticipation of death -- she wasn't the target and she was a woman). Then they execute PM -- might even have made him beg for his life. Horrible story -- JMO. I hate writing it.
We don't know whose guns they used.
I am still trying to imagine how AM would have found them unless the lights were on in the cottage and the door left ajar, but no one home. He is concerned, maybe the dogs were still barking, and as he walks over to check the dogs, he encounters the bodies. Only something that might work with what we know -- my options only.
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