This story just doesn't hold together for me. Dayton media are reporting it at face value, but when you look at a basic breakdown of fact, something is hinky here.
Car is stolen at a concert two weeks before Christmas, containing husband's keys-- wallet is unconfirmed-- personal items is what is generally being reported.
Three weeks later, car thief returns to neighborhood 60 miles away, breaks in and kills mother (who is shot multiple times) and kidnaps child, who is certainly old enough to identify him and leaves the boy at a rest stop on I-70 (after riding together for an hour.) Perp leaves the original stolen car near the scene and steals the grandmother's car. All while husband is (conveniently?) at work.
Stolen computers could point to an online relationship, or possibly to searches for murder by hire, or communication about the same. Or it could just be a red herring. I just don't buy this. It's a huge leap from car theft to murder and kidnapping. And why wasn't the child killed too? Why wasn't the child simply left behind at the scene.
I can see that crackheads / meth addicts have unpredictable and often violent behavior, but really, do they have the concentration and attention span to commit a crime like this; not to mention keeping a "hot" car hidden for nearly a month?
Something is rotten in Denmark.
