I’m late to the party, been following this case and still catching up here due to busy IRL but wanted to post some of my thoughts all in one post since I’m on a quick break at work and won’t be able to finishing catching up until later tonight. Apologies if some has already been discussed.
IMO the POI in the recently released video might, or might not, be the killer. LE obviously wants to talk to this individual because they were walking in the vicinity of the T’s home during the narrowed down timeline, and LE has asked the public for tips/help with ID’ing the person.
What I see in the video is a figure with long legs wearing dark colored coat/hoodie, mostly looking down, can’t see their face too well which may be purposeful to avoid full face being seen on cameras. Looks like he raises his head a bit, hits or scratches himself on right side of face/head and looks up a bit to the right. Could be due to the lighting and resolution, but my eyes see light colored or white somewhat baggy pants and dark shoes/boots. I can’t really tell if it’s a male or female but leaning male. Hard to tell age but based on clothing, I’d guess mid to late twenties, early 30’s.
If this person’s not the killer, is a local and pays attention to the news, hopefully they’ll come forward/contact LE to be interviewed, cleared, and help LE if they can by providing anything unusual they may have seen, noticed or heard in the area at the time.
If they’re afraid to come forward because perhaps they have warrants out for them, don’t trust or dislike the cops or whatever, maybe a family member, friend, coworker etc. will see the video footage and call tip into LE to provide ID. Of course even though the tipster might think it’s someone they know, once LE locates the person, they might not be who the tipster thought they were. A huge task in itself weeding through all the tips/leads flooding in. Hope LE gets more video surveillance showing possible vehicle in the area at the time, clearer shot of the POI showing more of their face and how much farther they got, and perhaps someone entering the residence which would be great.
I’m sure LE has also been busy continuing with other facets of investigation 101- interviewing family members, friends, neighbors, colleagues/coworkers, ex-lovers etc, and any hired household help they *might* have had- housekeeper, babysitter, dog walker/sitter, handyman, landscaper/gardener.
Checking alibis, ruling out/clearing people. Checking phones, waiting on crime scene forensics results and digital forensics results.
Possible geofence results too.
Wish we had more to go on but based on what’s known so far, some of my theories/speculation:
IMO although possible, random or targeted burglary is an outlier for me, bottom of my list of possibilities. But *IF* it was a burglary, they would had to have bypassed the lock code since LE stated no signs of forced entry.
And I don’t think anyone, burglar or someone known to the T’s, gained entry through a possibly unlocked basement window either as that’s considered forced entry which again, LE saw no signs of.
That said, I’m leaning more toward this being personal/targeted by someone known to the T’s and motivated by either some sort of grudge, jealousy, resentment, money, or any combination thereof. If only one of them was the target, RT or MT (I lean RT more likely), the other was killed as collateral or to leave no witness. The killer could have been anyone known to them that had motive to want them gone. Hard to believe because they seemed like such lovely people.
It could have been a friend, colleague, housekeeper, babysitter, or dog walker/sitter that knew their routine(s), waited till lights went out and T’s went to bed before striking. Now, outside of a family member, close friend, and *maybe* housekeeper, babysitter or dog walker, I don’t think the T’s would have given the lock code to everyone they knew obviously, but again, depending on what kind of lock system they had, any of the above that didn’t have the code could have possibly bypassed it somehow to make entry.
Another scenario could be the killer is someone from a known to the T’s person’s circle who the known person either willingly gave or were forced to give the lock code to.
For example, say the T’s had a hired housekeeper, dog walker and/or babysitter that they had words with or disagreement with one of the hired help about something i.e., perhaps the T’s didn’t think something was done to their satisfaction, or there was some sort of pay dispute. The hired help person told their partner about the issue and partner became incensed and demanded the code or used force on the person to obtain the code and killed the T’s over perceived disrespect of their partner.
Or they might have just gone to the T’s house and bypassed the lock without their partner (housekeeper, babysitter, dog walker) knowing.
I realize that scenario may not sound too plausible/probable but hey sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Haha.
I’m torn about the theory that a known person was let in by the T’s, and/or might have been staying with them for awhile, or was hiding in the house waiting (eek!). I guess it’s possible but I’d consider them to be outliers.
Lastly, it could’ve been a hired hit (imo they’re rare) by someone known to the T’s that had motive, money and didn’t want to get their own hands dirty so to speak. Just not sure if professional hitmen would use 9mm handgun. I read somewhere maybe here can’t remember, that hitmen prefer to use suppressed .22 caliber pistol. Idk maybe it’s an individual preference kind of thing.
At any rate, LE’s got their hands full with double homicide investigation but I have faith they’ll eventually solve this case. Maybe not as fast as we’d like, might have to wait awhile while LE dot’s all their i’s and crosses all t’s, gets all their ducks in a row before making an arrest.
This was a brutal awful crime and my heart goes out to the two little children having to grow up without their parents, and to Spencer & Monique’s families.
So very sad.
RIP Spencer and Monique
Thanks for reading my novel er, I mean post.
I’ll be back a little later to read and hopefully catch up!
All of the above IMHOO
