Though many of the lake properties are gated communities for the very well off, it is set in the most rural of rural areas. (Uncle Remus stories were written in this area...Eatonton, Georgia)
How someone keeps house is deemed very important as to character. To Southerners, that the house was immaculate is important information.
When I first heard of this, my ears pricked up as I had many customers on the lake (including Reynolds Plantation proper and the "Great Waters" development) from my satellite / Home Theater business.
Turns out the Dermonds were not costumers of mine, but the crime is so bizarre that I came here to see if someone started a thread. (I had registered awhile back to keep up with the Casey Anthony affair)
Sho 'nuff, here it is.
Anyway, you can almost (99.95%) bank on the fact that the perpetrators came in by water. When I would service my customers there, you HAD to check in at the 24 hour manned gate. They would stop you, ask where you were going, check a list to see if someone had your name there and call the resident if you were not on the log (and many times, even then). They then assigned you a one day color-coded pass that you stuck so it could be seen under your windshield.
When I heard about the decapitation and possible abduction, my mind reeled. This just makes NO sense for rural Georgia....
....until I learned (here at Websleuth) that they were originally from N.J.
There IS a Dixie Mafia, but this is not their style.
I think this is a "vengeance" hit. Something in the old man's past or the sons.
Keep up the good work, guys....I'll be lurking
