Here's another very good article with photos and some excellent analysis
http://www.thequesterfiles.com/too_close_for_comfort--donna_h.html
He also goes over the blood splatter evidence, stating he didn't see streaks from the perp's hands on the back of the seat. I can see some smudges, though.
Perhaps the last stop MM & DH made that night was where they somehow ingested Demerol. Maybe in a spiked drink. I've seen speculation online that Donna may have laid down to sleep while at that location and removed her shoes. Perhaps at some point MM realized their drinks were spiked. He would have stopped drinking (why he had less of the drug in his system), picked up Donna, (inadvertently leaving her shoes behind) and helped her out to the Jeep. He would have known he was too drugged to drive out of town to a camp site, so chose to find a place close by he could drive to while groggy. He went to the hidden party spot by Donna's family's apartment complex. Donna was probably passed out, he may have thought they could just sleep a while in the Jeep until the drug wore off. However, it was probably hot inside the Jeep, being a warm August night. He rolled up the rear window of the back door for air and went to lay down on the blanket where it was cooler while DH slept. Someone from the last stop followed them there and killed them. If they had drugs or money with them was it stolen then? There were no drugs or money at the scene.
Read the article at the link above and see what you think? The article also includes some screen shots from the LE crime scene video. Some graphic, but blurred.
http://www.thequesterfiles.com/too_close_for_comfort--donna_h.html
If the couple had already had their meeting with a drug contact, why did they park here, remove the blanket from the back of the Jeep, sit on it and smoke a few Marlboros (it is not mentioned that either smoked) and drink a bottle of beer. If they weren’t waiting for someone, they came here for a reason. It just doesn’t sound like a normal drug pass-off meeting. Why would the killer take her shoes but not her purse?
He also goes over the blood splatter evidence, stating he didn't see streaks from the perp's hands on the back of the seat. I can see some smudges, though.
The staging is indeed strange. The detectives said the bodies were posed near each other, but the overall staging is what is ponderous. How did the attacker’s blood get inside the Jeep unless he attacked them there? Why was the blanket then used? Did he go pull the blanket out of the back and this is what scattered some of his blood in the back? Why would he get a blanket out just to kill someone on it? The blanket wasn’t found flat. It was crumpled up when the police found it and when the detective picked it up the pack of Marlboros fell out. It seems someone had been sitting on it there at one point and casually smoking. The blanket was about 20 feet behind the jeep. But there’s the other clues. Without shoes on, Donna must have remained in the Jeep. Who had been smoking on that blanket? Why did Mike get out and pin up the back if they weren’t going to stay a while?
Perhaps the last stop MM & DH made that night was where they somehow ingested Demerol. Maybe in a spiked drink. I've seen speculation online that Donna may have laid down to sleep while at that location and removed her shoes. Perhaps at some point MM realized their drinks were spiked. He would have stopped drinking (why he had less of the drug in his system), picked up Donna, (inadvertently leaving her shoes behind) and helped her out to the Jeep. He would have known he was too drugged to drive out of town to a camp site, so chose to find a place close by he could drive to while groggy. He went to the hidden party spot by Donna's family's apartment complex. Donna was probably passed out, he may have thought they could just sleep a while in the Jeep until the drug wore off. However, it was probably hot inside the Jeep, being a warm August night. He rolled up the rear window of the back door for air and went to lay down on the blanket where it was cooler while DH slept. Someone from the last stop followed them there and killed them. If they had drugs or money with them was it stolen then? There were no drugs or money at the scene.
Read the article at the link above and see what you think? The article also includes some screen shots from the LE crime scene video. Some graphic, but blurred.