Me too. Why would you commit two counts of first degree murder when you could have abducted her at the bus stop?
I can give you several of the common reasons for what we all, or most of us, are feeling, if you'd like. Not specific to this one crime, of course, but as to why certain crimes are SO clean and some defy logic.
What we are doing, instinctively as adults who are hopefully sober and intelligent, is using our reasoning skills and failing to understand the unreasonable. Right?
The clashes we are having between a few snippets of early info and our speculations about why the parents were killed in cold blood where they lived, and why their beautiful little precious daughter was likely abducted
is because this is a disorganized crime, from all known facts at this time. It could become an organized type of crime ( I do not mean " mafia", I mean well planned) at some point, but it does not appear to be well- planned at all.
Some of the most common reasons for disorganized crimes are:
1) Lack of planning.
2) Lack of time due to one thing not being factored in.
3) Drug and/ or alcohol impairment.
4) Mental illness
5) Intellectual impairment for another reason.
6) Utter rage that destroys reason
In the case of the Closs family, I'd give high probability to numbers 1, 3, 4, and 6.
I think someone who obliterates a little family in this way has to be insane, whether due to substance abuse impairment or rage or what the court calls a " mental defect", that is, long standing serious mental illness left untreated.
I hope this helps. Basically, it's like an out of control fire consuming a family where they sat in the comfort of their own home. Obliterated by someone or persons with as much regard for their lives as a fire is able to have.
Even if the perp. turns out to be a " close friend", a " neighbor", a " co-worker", the fire blazing and consuming lives is still the analogy I turn to in order to understand that sort of massive evil which is INHUMAN.