It is crushing to read the headlines lately, across the whole country. This story, other missing persons, hits for hire. Boyfriends killing girlfriends, strangers abducting children. It seems there's just no end to the evil -- unsolved crimes everywhere.
Meanwhile, persons of interest walk among us, without enough evidence to name them, charge them, convict them. Different crimes, different shoes, but walking all the same.
I wonder constantly about this case. Will that elusive tip come in? And what will it be?
A horrible story in Colorado moved to an arrest when a couple in Idaho called in a tip. Just a tiny bit of information!
Here, we have such little to go on. A narrow timeline, a small cast, a few clues.
There must be some absolutes, I tell myself. It was either targeted or random. It followed a script or it didn't.
These are my thoughts:
What if it was supposed to be a blitz attack, in search of drugs, prescribed or otherwise? One story house, set back from the highway... only they hit the wrong house? Came in expecting to rough up some druggies and do business their way? Scare tactics, no murdering in mind. Realized way too late it was just a middle aged couple... and then a kid...
Or did they come in, with a plan, carried out at warp speed? Did they do their recon, did they know exactly how many people would be inside? Did it matter?
Was it one person? Two? Middle-aged loner? Peers? A leader and a follower? One motive? Two? Clean cut? Or grizzly? One get-away car or two? And where were they, some 4-6 minutes later? Screaming down Hwy 8 toward the casino or lights out, on a side road, waiting for LE to pass? Where are they now? Local? Across state lines? In jail, on other charges? They gotta be somewhere.
MOO Probably statistically rare, but what about a male-female pair? Maybe a female the Closs family knew. Maybe recently, maybe a long time ago. Total grasp here, but a non threatening girl they once knew with a not so nice boyfriend they didn't... I'm just thinking of some especially horrific crimes, perpetrated by vile males with female accomplices. The couple who held Elizabeth Smart captive. The horrors of what the precious girl endured.
Again JMO, just throwing ideas out there. What brought James to the door that night? A ruse? No stretch, I can see him initially beginning to open the door if he saw a girl standing there.
And given the nightmare Jayme would've just witnessed, two perps, she might go to the one who offers her a better chance for safety....
Cruelty upon cruelty.
My heart is heavy for her family.
What happened that night?
Commotion and unintelligible voices on the 911 tape lend toward multiple perps, IMO... unless the timeline is off and one or more parents were still communicating. .. maybe Jayme....
Waiting for a break in case --