Or 2 people assaulting him at the same time. Maybe CM had at least 1 accomplice. The other explanation could be he was attacked by a martial arts expert. I don't know if CM has that training.
Morning, travelbug, and all. I hope you all had a great weekend.
Imo, I dont really think he had help of any kind, just like none of the other sole prepetrators, who have also killed multiple victims inside of one home, didn't have any help whatsoever either.
They had no help committing the mass murders themselves, nor help in the aftermath, and cover up, including removing the bodies else where ...to their chosen location where they were to be discarded above ground or buried in shallow graves.
CM is very consistent to other murderers like him. who usually place their victim in places they feel are their comfort zones. The desert definitely was his comfort zone area, and very familiar terrain for him.
Many of these same type of sole prepetrators murdered more than two adults victims inside of the victim's home, all right by themselves.
Tragically many such cases involved torture, and even brutal rapes of some of the women, and children before all were murdered by the same perp.
Two of these victim were tiny defenseless easy targets. Neither could protect themselves so they wouldn't even be formidable adversaries against the monster who had murderous rage against them both. They were little sitting ducks for CM..
In every case that I can recall, where multiple murder victims were murdered by one individual, the common denominator is the suspects quickly restrained ALL victims so they could gain full control, over all of their victims. Unless they snuck in, and murdered each one while they were each sound asleep which is far more rare, than when the victims had been awake, and bound at the time it happened.
We know that wasn't the case here though. They were all awake, and mobile at the time before it all began.
Imo, the most logical, and common sense conclusion, is CM also quickly restrained all four before he began his massacre by murdering them one by one.
Once all had been restrained, under his full control, with none of them having any ability to defend themselves nor having any way to protect the others either from what was to happen to each one is when the murders began.. imo.
Imo, the injuries they sustained shows they were restrained, and immobile at the time unable to protect their heads or any part of their bodies.
These were specifically targets blows to specifically targeted areas.
If he was having to chase four mobile moving targets around with the sledgehammer there would have been glancing blows with other crushimg injuries/fractures around their shoulder, upper arm, and chest areas as he wildly swung against fast moving targets trying to flee for their lives.
If they weren't all restrained at the time there would be massive crushing defense injuries to their entire arms, wrists, hands, chests as they tried to shield themselves from the blows,
That's just a normal human reaction when trying to protect themselves, and when shielding others trying to protect them as well.
So for me anyway, I have been fully convinced all along, they were all restrained in some manner at the time all of this began happening through the time it was all over when they all lay dead, and lifeless.
Jmo