Going back to the beginning of this whole tragedy, we have discussed whether this is all a large, planned thrill kill for these suspects or something else. Here are my thoughts/theories:
7/15 I believe the murders of LF and CD were unplanned. KM and BS may have come upon the van and believed it to be abandoned on the side of the road, but unoccupied. They were short of cash and may have thought they could break in and steal something that they could use. Is it possible that the suspects planned to steal the van not realizing it was broken down?
I believe they may have awakened Lucas and Chynna when they opened the side door to the van. I would guess the victims were sleeping towards the back and when they woke up, they startled the 2 suspects. A shot was fired towards them causing the glass to spray outside the van as indicated in some reports. One of them may have been hit. At some point the victims were murdered. We don’t know if they were murdered in or out of the van. They may have been led outside and executed there or dragged out after being shot. LE have not indicated if there was blood inside the van or if the bodies had been moved.
Is there any chance that the “argument” described by a witness could have been KM and BS arguing with each other because one had fired the shots that killed the victims?
At any rate, they were now on the run.
The killers then made they way over 7 hours away to the vicinity of Dease Lake where they laid low for a few days.
7/18 they were spotted at Dease Lake around 3:15. They were probably listening to radio reports and knew neither the victims nor the suspects had been identified.
On 7/19, suspect’s truck/camper was found burning about 12 miles south of Dease Lake, LD’s body was found about a mile away from the burning vehicle. A few people had come forward by this time who were witnesses at the double homicide site before the murders. Perhaps KM and BS thought a witness might come forward who had seen their camper at the scene. This propelled them to burn their camper, kill LD, and steal his vehicle. This was a panicky move and not well thought out. They were probably very happy to hear later on that LD was unidentified at the time and so there was no bolo for the vehicle in which they were traveling.
By 7/21, they had made their way about 22 hours east to Cold Lake where they were assisted after being stuck, (maybe they had camped in there), and an hour and a half further to Meadow Lake where they were picked up on the video camera. I believe they took Route 16 to Cold Lake.
By 7/22, they had driven an additional 14 hours to Gillam where they eventually burned the RAV4. They may have realized they were at a dead end and would have to double back and couldn’t risk being seen in the dead man’s vehicle.
It wasn’t until 7/23 that they were named suspects in the murders. By that time they very well could have found a way out of Gillam. If that was the case and they were able to get far enough east, all they have to do is stay out of sight by keeping to backwoods hunting and fishing cabins spread over hundreds and thousands of acres until the search is scaled back. Hopefully, they have not harmed anyone else.
I do not think we have any genius killers here. We have 2 boys on the run who have always been one step ahead of LE, not because of their smarts and cunning, but because of pure luck i.e. not being connected with the double homicide and then being thought to be missing themselves as victims, not perpetrators. They were running because they knew what they had done, but LE initially did not.
MOO trying to put together a scenario based on what we do know.
