Having had a career working with youth of all ages, majority being in a public high school of 1,200+ students, I came to the realization that things simply are not always as they seem with young people.
Teens only reveal what they want to reveal. It's as though they are doing one play, say....Hamlet, and the adults in their lives are doing a different play....Othello.
The teens know the rules of Othello, however, the adults know ONLY that part of Hamlet the teens wish them to see.
This is my take on what went down here in this case. I just don't think the deepest secrets in the lives of these twins are/were and may never be fully known to their families and the other adults who were part of their lives.
I think the truth is likely found in the extreme emotion of youth, anxiety, fear, jealousy, love, desperation, etc. Or possibly something else, something unrelated to emotion....somewhere in the twins' lives there was a piece that was hidden from the adults in their lives.
Though not totally out of the realm of possibility, it simply doesn't appear to me to be a case of lynching. If this was murder, the GBI has totally missed the mark, or is truly corrupt, yes?
I was thinking exactly the same thing -- without Shakespeare, which I love BTW. In the closest of families, when kids get to the age where they're out running around with friends and even driving themselves, there is so much going on the families will never know about - even years later (if lucky) when they laugh and share some of those hidden moments. Parents and families never know everything.
In this case, the parents were in two separate households. The one the twins lived in had a severe illness that must have required much of the family's focus. No blame here, just acknowledging that with illness, sometimes that becomes what much of the household revolves around.
Add that to the boys being twins. They had a built-in, lifelong confidant who knew all the secrets. I think the twins were an island in all the family life swirling around them.
Instead of never having heard of Bell Mountain, isn't it possible it was their go-to place when life became overwhelming? The glory of nature in a little used park. Sure, there were many places closer, but in my experience, they were crowded. Even mountain roads with little traffic are safer than the congestion around Lawrenceville.
It's incredibly sad for the family and friends as they attempt to understand. However, I doubt the answers are findable as they were locked inside the twins. And the not knowing will haunt those who loved them.
I don't think the state agency would protect the local LE or hide what the experts believed really happened. Could they be wrong? It does happen occasionally, I would guess, but forensics and training are highly polished in our world today. The experts can put the evidence together in a way that appears to make sense, but the why is probably out of reach.
So incredibly much pain for the family right now. Their family desperately looking for an answer, any answer, is understandable. Naturally, they will look at and examine all angles. So much pain. How I hope they find some peace and the pain abates.
