I so appreciate your thoughts, JazzTune. As for myself, I just don't see the careful manipulation or staging that others do. I tend to think the simpler explanations of things are more often correct- the Occam's Razor rule, if you will. If MC was harmed at his shop and taken away, whoever did it was pretty darn lucky, IMO. This was in broad daylight! I would grant that whoever did it would have known BC was not at home, but how could that person have also known the nearest next door neighbor's, who could see the Chambers' property, would not return to their home until 3PM that day? That's why I say any possible perp was just lucky. I still think it's a possibility that if foul play was involved, it wasn't planned ahead and happened unexpectedly. I still believe that if foul play, MC left his shop walking and got into a vehicle under his own power, after locking the things up.
Thanks Tripod, I really like your thoughts too. You always make good points and help me clarify my own thoughts.
You mentioned Occam's Razor. That's the very reason I feel MC was abducted,
because of Occam's Razor theory. ( Please know when I'm trying to explain my reasoning I'm not intending any sarcasm with it. )
My thoughts about the blood and the staging are a little different from some of the others here. I believe MC was present in the shop when the bleeding occurred. I don't believe he was alone though, because of the pattern of blood spatters and drips.
The VI told us the blood was inside the shop only, and in a small area. Yet not a drop leading toward the sink where MC would have naturally walked toward to clean himself up if he had been by himself.
Blood was on the wooden dowel, which I believe MC was using to try to defend himself, when he was cut by one of the perps ( with a knife? )
Was probably given a towel to wrap around the cut, and then forced out of the shop. Walking under his own power to a waiting vehicle.
Had he been alone, I do not see how he could have locked up the shop without more blood drips. Having a fresh cut like that, would have required him having to lock up practically one-handed while trying to hold a towel wrapped around a cut arm, hand, etc.
Therefore, there would have been more blood drips on the outside near the door. There were none at all.
However, the door was locked in the usual manner that he did. Which makes me believe that not only was he with others but someone familiar with how he locks up his shop.
Again, appearances...
As for Occam's Razor and the HCSO's suicide theory, simplest explanation? Don't even get me started again on that circus act bike joke. Even fiction has to be believable.
The perps
were lucky. We still don't know where MC is. But they may have had a hand in boosting their luck.
My scenario is several of them may have been dropped off at MC"s home by their 'look-out' guy in a vehicle. Might not have been strangers to MC, and could have even shot the breeze with him for awhile.
When they got the 'coast is clear,' text from their look-out guy, their plan sprang into action.
MC was going with them by force, but being a big guy, he wasn't going easily. ( The reason why I believe there was more than one perp. One person would not have had an easy time taking MC alone. )
So, yes, they
were lucky. Someone could still have come along and seen them, but apparently it was a risk they were willing to take.
I keep asking myself, why? Who stood to benefit from MC disappearing? Who had the motive? An axe to grind?
JMO
