This case just makes me so incredibly sad. So many lives ruined, and so many questions left unanswered.
IMO, metal illness doesn't explain the whole thing. I strongly believe that he ingested some kind of drug, bath salts being the obvious possibility, because it sounds eerily similar to other cases I've heard about where people have ended up killing and/or cannibalizing other people. I just don't think a sudden mental break explains what happened. From what I've seen, this kid was going through some extreme mental stress, and may have been struggling with an undiagnosed mental illness, but something else had to have happened for him to end up killing two people in such a way.
I agree, I think mental falling, with an element that speeded up the where we are.
That could be blood splatter, but I'm not certain. And I would think it would be on things besides the floor if that were the case. I can't imagine getting in a physical fight in there with stuff everywhere! Looks like they needed to have a yard sale!
Just got on , going back and forth - I felt bad, then there were some of you said the stuff I was thinking when I ran across the pic. It looks like regular disarray. It is interesting (this place always is!) at the opposite reactions, this does not look like violence (the pic) just a mess!
Its all sadd- it was theirs whatever.
I do go back to mom and dad and two weeks noticing something was off. In the duffies tape he looks scranny,dressed shelpy (not like someone who is aware of self looks- which is different from others). If youlook at his other pics he was in form fitting clothes, did not look like someone ready to break out into a nasty rap song whle shooting gang signs!
When we all were doing pics - we noticed this stuff. How anyone around him, just in terms of depression, did not grasp something is amazing to me.
Looking inside the garage it has struck me with the animal motif, especially with the stuffed deer head and possibly stuffed bird. I wonder if that played any role in him making animal noises when LE arrived. I know the father blamed chemicals for him making those noises, but I don't think that explains it if he was able to verbalize at least that he'd pass a drug test. Also I wonder what entrances there are to the garage, like I'm not seeing the bar - which AH apparently went to - where if that was on the left, the wife could have entered from a door on the right or at least it could have somehow entered his brain that she's an animal rather than a human. If she started talking, it could have seemed to AH that the deer was talking. I'm sort of reminded from Fawlty Towers when the major thinks he's talking to an animatronic moose. I do really wonder what else - if anything - AH said before going into a coma and what it was in response to with him denying any drug use.
Your posts are terrificTY! There are so many here that are. In a lot of cases, its reading them, and it is a (I am not grunting - but it is an aloud ummmm, I never thought of that). Exastsy makes people horney. I do not know (unless maybe they really dont know) but am reallly wondering if that was the case, he was not home- ran for quick errrand, Austin passed, tried to rape,he drives in.
There was blood IN his car guys. When I saw the guys by his car , cleaning it , not forensics, it confused me. The Sherriff about 4 days after (it was almost like a slip) bug inside his car.
If we rewind, that explains a lot. It would explain him in there, Walking by really not working on all cylinders, sees a attractive woman, hits on her, re4jects, he loses it, husband pulls in, neighbor stated he "her" screaming, never mentioned a male, he tires to help the woman , leaves, and THEN he pulls in.
It gives reason for going in. It give reason for them both being found in totally different locations, it fits with the neighbor never describing anyone but a female, it fits with blood on and in his car.
Have slowly moved to the caustic injestion happened before he got to their garage. Kinda like another garage on his way . Think about it that day he walked or ran what 6 miles duffies mom/outing/duffies to murder scene .
In thinking about it, on Phil it struck me (not saying it means anything) it struck me as just weird that dad said he ordered an ice tea. I would not really be paying attn to "what" you ordered to drink - just sharing that - another oddity.
Starting to really think - after article found last night - that they really may not be able to ever determine what was in his body- and THAT is the pitts
The garage is a cheerful hoard, don't you think? I would bet everything in there is a memento and has a story. Can't help but wonder if the house is a hoard and they have backed themselves out into the garage. No judgment, just observation.
I spent some time last night reading up on roid rage and bath salts, which you all have already done. We know he did weed, and alcohol and I really believe he was struggling with steroids. It is so strongly implied, some of what I have seen him say I would regard as an admission. I also read that steroids could unmask a psychiatric condition. The thought of a psychiatric breakdown + roid rage + alcohol? I have known people who get plenty scary on alcohol alone. But I think we have a strong reason to believe that he was acting under the influence of those 3 factors. Except the alcohol would have shown up right away at the hospital. Could he have been in alcohol withdrawal too? Dad being a boozer and the party in the backyard makes me think it possible Dad might have allowed underage drinking for some time. Dad is dismissive when speaking about just drinking beer. Tho we know he has been in trouble for alcohol.
Please correct me when my memory of these 81 pages is off.
Bath salts came up as a result of remarks from LE? The history and nature of attacks previously associated with bath salts? And a friend making the vague comment that AH was doing things he ought not.? That stuff is frightening in a class all it's own from what I read!
We allowed a neighbor who lives a rough road to visit for a few this week. He has no transportation and my better half takes him to the grocery etc.. I was telling him about this case as I was still working my way thro reading it and he said he had taken bath salts....very nonchalant, as if no big deal, just a stimulant, self medicating. I was too astonished to think what to say in response.
I also went to bed thinking about the conversation about religiosity above. I do see it also but am trying to think of a way to explain what I see. After more coffee lol.
Please forgive my difficulty remembering names.but I think the poster on the previous page pinned it with the understanding of AH drinking a caustic chemical as part of a psychotic rage and self destructiveness, from the garage of the victims. We don't see them in the photo but it is usual that any household has some in a garage. Everything points to a corrosive. I don't find it difficult to believe he shouted out in triumph that they would find no drugs even as the chemicals were taking effect.
I am just speculating and everything I say is moo, of course. Trying along with the rest of you to piece this all together.
Neat post - a wonderful summary of what a mess this is!Everytime you go somewhere mental, steroids, deyhratrion, bath salts you hit that fits . But the problem is at times everything fits, is it certainly going to be more than one . IMO yes. I think all of us are "looking" for a primary starting point.
From that we can arrange the other contributers, its like we need to rule out something to then reset, and try to digest this.