.. we will hopefully find out soon. In the meantime, I have not changed my mind about the "mistake" with the pried open garage side door. I thought from the very beginning, that the broken-in side door and the "hammer" was a mistake.
Here is again why and with more detailed knowledge afterwards regarding the alarm system:
Let's take a step back and just pretend the arrests of JR and CWW never happened, no Missori connection whatsoever. It would look like a burglary gone wrong. Dr would have either stepped into a burglary in progress or it was a home invasion during which Dr S was killed. This would have been the desirable outcome of whatever plan was employed by the perps.
However, something made LE find out very early in the investigation - according to Sheriff Mike Scott- that suggested it was not , what it was looking like: It was not a random burglary.
We know now the alarm was OFF. We do not know, when the alarm had been disarmed or who disarmed it.
As we remember MS made the statement according to a family member, that perhaps his direct family member had forgotten to set the alarm. We all discussed it and a poster suggested, that MS should not be privy of this info, since perhaps Dr S could have entered a house with a disarmed alarm system, and she could have later rearmed the system. That was a great thought! Here is why:
MS DID NOT EXPECT THE ALARM TO BE OFF!! HE EXPECTED THE ALARM TO BE ON!! He was sincere in thinking that the family member simply missed to activate the alarm system. The video camera in front of the garage was previously adjusted to point away towards the right or back of the house, not the front. Later someone (!) readjusted the camera to point towards the front again.
JR and CWW both expected the alarm to be on! They waited for Dr S to arrive home, to disarm the system (she may have been surprised the system was off, if she even realized) and then sneaked through the front garage door, when she entered the premises with the van.
She closes the door, they wait until she enters the next possibly locked connection door (by that time the alarm is either disarmed or she goes to disarm it now) and attack her perhaps while entering the kitchen or even before, when she was still in the garage getting her luggage out of the car?
There is a picture of that door and kitchen on MS' FB photo page. They kill her either with a knife or strangle her. She has no chance, no defensive wounds, nothing.
They then go back to the side garage door and pry open the door from outside with a - hammer. They need to make it look like a burglary AFTER DR S CAME HOME. A burglary prior to that would not be possible with out the alarm going off - or so they THINK!
They now go back into the kitchen and "hammer" her "to death", so that there is a nice connection between a pried open door (with a hammer) and a "hammered" victim.
LE discovered early, that the movements between the main crime-scene and the surrounding area went back and forth.
Notice also the garage side door shows no damage around the deadbolt area/frame. That door was not dead bolted! Why not? That door would have been easy to open without any damage! But no, they had to use the hammer for the "burglary-victim" connection.
In my mind, JR and CWW did NOT know the alarm was off. That was not the information the plan was based on. Without the alarm set, they could have had access AT ANY GIVEN TIME prior to Dr S arrival. Her arrival was necessary to enter the house without tripping the system. Even if they discovered upon their arrival, that the alarm was deactivated, they stuck to their plan.
If anything, any individual not reactivating the alarm would have had absolutely no fault whatsoever (if that even happened). The attack was based on ALARM ON. It would and did(!) happen anyway. It may even help the prosecution and therefore getting justice for Dr Sievers!!
All of that is just my theory of course.
-Nin
So that leads me to believe they incapacitated her quickly and that any of the brutal aspect was done after she died.
