I still believe her death is out of jealousy and revenge and is tied to her relationships.
Revenge, jealousy, and a primrose path.
I agree with you. I think it is wishful thinking to attribute this crime to a "gang" rather than confront the fact that a sociopath might reside next door.
I think the obsession with gangs, race, drugs, FBI/ATF (who are playing a very minimal role in this case) is detracting from a very personal situation involving jealousy, revenge, and redemption involving multiple individuals, males and females.
So there is a murder with multiple individuals involved with their own individual motives. What is the reason for death by burning? What is something that a person will take to the grave with them on their physical body when they pass away? If that can be burned away, the evidence is scant and circumstantial, leading to eyewitnesses all accounting for each other.
Anyone like the Mula Gang joggers on sale for three weeks to the exact hour of Jessica's murder?
Lastly, personally, I think Tom needs to go sing Disco Duck with his distant cousin Rick.[