This is a key part of the puzzle I think, and one I'd like to discuss again if anyone's up for it.
The thing is, those NE doors were GLASS double doors. It wouldn't have presented quite the same break-in challenge as the metal kitchen door (which could not have been climbed into). We know these NE doors were both broken because we have photos of them being boarded up with two 4x8' plywood sheets. Here's arkansasmimi's screenshot of the repairs to the NE doors from thread 4 or 5:
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Here's the back of the building (those NE doors were up a half-flight of stairs in that recessed area by the dumpsters):
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So here's the thing I keep coming back to...
WHY spend all that time and energy hacking off the hardware from the side metal kitchen door, if 2 glass doors just around the corner were completely broken out? Swatperp could've just crawled through the broken-out areas of those double doors. It'd have been far easier than attempting to climb into the raised kitchen window and far, FAR easier than hacking off the kitchen door's hardware and manipulating the tricky locking pins.
I keep coming back to the increasingly strong conviction that
Swatperp HAD to enter by way of the kitchen for some reason. And the only thing that stands out as important enough to necessitate that entry concerns those hall cameras and his disguise. It must've been necessary for SP to enter by way of the kitchen
because there are NO motion-activated cameras in the kitchen recording his entry.
Consider this 1st scenario:
Swatperp dresses in SP costume, complete with tools and gear, and comes to a darkened, locked-up church in the pouring rain at 3:50 AM. He has with him at least one powerful breaching tool - (we know this because he used one with great difficulty to hack off the exterior panic hardware of the kitchen door to enter the building) and probably a light source (flashlite, head cam, maybe iPhone flashlite). So here in the middle of the night in the pouring rain Swatperp considers his entry options and...
Decides to hack and wrestle the panic hardware off a metal fire door???
But just around the corner from the kitchen are the rear glass double doors (NE corner by the dumpster). They are in fact broken out by SP - why?
Two purposes are possible, hypothetically, for breaking those doors at the outset - vandalism or breaking in. But why
wouldn't SP enter by way of those if he was going to break them via vandalism, anyway? Surely he knew the points of entry for the church - a simple walk or drive around would make those obvious. Those NE glass doors would've provided excellent coverage, and he obviously didn't have any qualms about smashing them with a breaching tool...so why not enter the building that way?? But he apparently doesn't because Swatperp instead chooses to stand out in the pouring rain hacking into the kitchen door's hardware. It doesn't make sense at all unless for some reason it was vital to the plan to enter by way of the kitchen,
vital to avoid those NE hall cameras upon building ENTRY, even though not vital to avoid them after leaving the kitchen.
The video we've seen doesn't show a wet Swatperp, or even wet hall floors...something to ponder.
Consider this 2nd scenario:
The Swatperp costume and gear was in the kitchen, possibly even in the vestibule of the metal door entrance in a large black trash bag in the rolling trash receptacle pictured there. And a fairly wet perp NOT in disguise entered by way of the kitchen door or window in order to stay out of camera view until dried off and changed into the SP costume left there, (left either by himself or an accomplice during Sunday activities or during the weekend blood drive).
SP then leaves the kitchen upon donning his dry costume and proceeds to make his way around the church vandalizing and entering rooms. He sees the NE double door and bashes the glass out.
Two purposes are possible at this point - vandalism or staging point of entry/exit. One other purpose is no longer logical (point of entry).
The only reason that comes to mind why a perp would choose a considerably harder point of entry (in the pouring rain) over the obvious, easier one is some sort of Bigger Motivation. Something was far more vital than having an easy, fast break in - and the only thing I can come up with is those north hallway cameras and the fact that SP may not yet have been disguised properly.
Consider this utterly speculative, elaborative, and brainstorming scenario #3 (keeping in mind it's late night thinking):
Swatperp (teen, male) is wearing gym shorts and white tee; is driven to the CC property by accomplice in fire truck. Fireman accomplice uses his professional skills & tools to ratchet off and open up panic hardware for swatperp, who then enters kitchen and dons swat costume and gear left by accomplice #3 (perhaps one with bad cop ties) over his clothes. He then folds up black trash bag and puts in vest pocket and continues on with scenario 2. Firetruck drives off property and maybe heads on up Walnut Grove Rd to the fire station at 3661 FM-1387.
SP vandalizes church, then kills Missy, and then leaves on foot following creekline at back of the property northward up toward FM-1387. On the way, he sheds his SP costume and gear includng actual murder weapon, wrapping all tightly in the black trash bag which he weights with rocks and pitches into the reservoir. He then heads west from the reservoir, eventually meeting up with Walnut Grove Road, which he follows northward to 1387. He turns left onto 1387 and is now (roughly 6:30 AM, depending on gear disposal) at the high school he attends...which is just across the street from Fire Station #2. (Anyone seeing him on the road would think nothing of it, as he has school that day, and they might assume he's doing athletics training before school.) He may or may not meet up with accomplice fireman (who may or may not actually be from that station) depending on level of suspicion that would arouse. But after hanging out around the track and maybe a light workout in the weight room, he then showers and goes to his Monday morning classes as though it were just another day.
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MAP PINS:
Green = Creekside Church of Christ
Red = Highschool
Purple = Firestation 2
Route: 3.4 miles - 6 minutes by car - 1 hour 6 min walk (normal; more like 2hrs walking along creekline with SP gear disposal)
