I have a feeling that Barry tranqued quite a few deer in his day.
It wouldn't surprise me. I think he was pretty bent on luring mountain lions onto his property. That would be the ostensible use, if anyone found them before Suzanne went missing. I really want to know when he purchased the darts and whatever was inside one of them.
Of course, back in Indiana, he had a deer farm license, so they must have had provisions for all those deer farm owners to use tranqs on deer in Indiana - surely it was regulated in some way?
But he had to have stopped this use in CO, I would think.
I was reading about deer farms yesterday and realized anyone professionally managing one as a moneymaking enterprise would attend training and have the supplies needed to tranq them. I always thought deer were managed naturally not breeded and pinned (fenced in) for "canned" hunts. Now I know better. We could have a very interesting discussion about the ethics of that but don't want to get off topic. MOO
It's no more off topic than discussing Barry's pet raccoon, IMO. Thank you for this information. I knew it was "deer in a barrel" already (disgusting). I knew they were bred on farms, but it was only during this case that I learned what should have been obvious - that the deer have to come from somewhere, initially. And deer age out of breeding and have to be replenished through the same method.
The whole mentality of shooting a deer that's fenced in...baffles me and disgusts me, frankly. MOO.
If someone were to write a biography of Barry, I wonder if the reader would conclude that he was pretty much always planning to shoot
something in the near future. I bet the PP property allowed shooting on those 7 acres (it's not incorporated as far as I know), but I bet the house in Indiana did not sit on property that allowed it. So the house on PP was indeed his ideal house - could shoot any time he wanted. People could come over and shoot.
I have not believed that the elk rack came from road kill since I first heard about it...Outdoor Magazine actually had a piece in a spring 2020 issue about people illegally shooting elk and taking just their racks, in Colorado. They said it was a new and troubling problem. It was not elk season at the time that decaying rack was put outside their garage (late April/early May, 2020).
agree to all except....I doubt he did any work on the retaining wall on Sunday. He may have looked it over, in order to convey instructions to his crew on what he thought they could accomplish without the necessary tools and equipment. Has it been established that he even visited that job site on Sunday?
See the timeline . It appears he did 15-30 minutes of work on that wall. MG said in her interview (in addition to what was said at the prelim and shown by his GPS) that he "took the caps off" and there's an actual photo of the wall (taken by MG?) with about 10 caps off and some dirt moved back from the wall. GPS says he went there twice on Sunday - each time, briefly. I think it's pretty clear Barry is the one who removed the caps - who else would do it or have a reason to? He's trying to show he was "working" that day. There are various pictures of the "work" floating about on various youtubes.
If LE think BM used a tranq dart wouldn't they have charged him with an illegal/lethal use of a controlled substance charge or some other similar charge? This makes me think they don't have any concrete evidence about the the tranq dart. It's just a theory and one the defense can poke a lot of holes in. I think it's going to be real difficult for the prosecution to prove it was used in a homicide. Of course they still have a lot to go.
Okay, so this one keeps me awake at night (along with the buried alive scenario - which makes a horrible amount of sense, forensically). I too am thinking they don't have enough evidence for lethal use of a controlled substance. I think if the plastic dart was fired out of the gun that they took away from Barry (the short rifle, which is likely ideal for shooting darts), even if he cleaned it (but sloppy Barry probably was more worried about hiding it)...there might be microscopic evidence of the gun being used to shoot something plastic.
If the remaining container of darts are simply empty darts, it will be very hard to determine what was inside the dart Barry used on Suzanne. I sure hope they do have evidence from Indiana of him purchasing darts, but if he got the darts through his deer farm experiences, and paid cash, as apparently he usually did, it may be very hard to figure out what was in the darts.
I too see lots of room for the defense to poke holes at trial - and I'm resigned to that. I still want all the evidence aired and Barry to be shown for what he is. I am very hopeful that some of the charges will stick.
