I am still stuck on the timing and the running car. Now I’ll add the weather.
Wasn’t it raining? Was it raining steadily that night? More importantly, was it raining at the time the coroner says the murders took place?
What would cause MM to leap out of her car, leaving ot running, to argue with AM in the rain. Was he threatening to kill himself…and that was a ruse to kill her?
If Paul is inside one of the kennels…were his parents arguing out in the rain? They had to be close enough that the phone picked up their voices.
I’d love to know the direction the car was facing…like it was entering or exiting.
Having several loaded guns available doesn’t surprise me. Even where I live we have bear, wild hogs, coyotes, snakes etc. And I don’t like at a dedicated hunting lodge. I just think AM was experienced enough to grab what he needed. I still believe, at the moment and opinion only…that MM was shot first and PM grabbed a gun to protect himself, or his Mother…and AM took that gun away from him. In the process, PM was shot. I am guessing that AM then made a grand tour around the carnage and finished everyone off.
I would like to know whether MM ever made it to the hospital to see her FIL. That would shed so much light on the differing timelines.
Facts we know:
AM lured MM to Moselle and is said to have had the AR at the ready.:
Did he plan to just kill her when she arrived or try to talk her into dropping the audit and divorce first?
DH said MM and PM had no life insurance. Was it ever reported if they did or not? I could have missed it but I don't recall reading where they did. (Maybe OP's will help me out here if they have a link to information on MM's life insurance or lack thereof.) If MM had life insurance was this a case of AM wanting to stop the audit or just a murder for a big life insurance payout. We should remember that "suicide/murder for hire" side of the road stunt AM pulled. He stated at the time his life insurance would not pay off in the case of suicide so he hired cousin Eddie to make it look like murder. Was MM's policy excluding suicide also? Maybe some OP's who know more about life insurance can weigh in here, but my life insurance policy has a 2 year exclusion for suicide. So was AM and MM's (assuming she had any) policies fairly new?
Frankly I did not see the money in the bank accounts (58.00+16.00+8000.00 which are very small accounts to have as liquid cash on hand) to pay long term for a 10 million dollar life insurance on AM let alone one for MM. (of course my premiums are higher because I am 3 days older than dirt but still a 10 million dollar policy on a 52 year old woman or man would carry very substantial premiums unless it was AD&D.) The question of the life insurance policies on MM would go a long way in determining what AM's plans were concerning MM that night.
Also all the real property plus a share of PMPED was in MM's name alone. I am not sure what SC law is concerning that in a divorce but OK law is any property acquired
after marriage, even if in one party's name alone is community property and must be split 50/50 and sold in a divorce. Any property acquired
before marriage remains with whoever had it before the marriage. Moselle's deed was changed to MM's name in 2015
after the marriage. I haven't read any information about when the deed to other real property came to be in MM's name alone. But at any rate if it was after the marriage would it all have been community property and therefore a 50/50 split. Did AM see when MM wouldn't budge off that divorce a 50/50 split causing all real property to be sold and mortgages and other debts having to be paid off?
Then you have the proven fact most abused spouses are killed in the first year after they leave their abuser. Plus SC's divorce law where you have to live apart for a year before you can file for a divorce. MM and AM were coming up on that one year deadline. Did this factor in? Did AM finally realize that MM was not coming back to him?
Or did it have more to do with his father being close to dying? Did RM III leave MM power of attorney over AM's inheritance? It has been said RM III and MM were close and RM III had to know about his son's long term drug habit. So did he try to control AM from the grave by leaving MM in charge of AM's inheritance?
MM is said to arrive at Moselle at 7pm.
PM is said to have left his uncles house at 6pm, estimated to arrive at Moselle around 7pm.
TOD: 9-9:30 pm.
That's a huge gap of 2 to 2 1/2 hours there. What happened in that 2+ hour gap. Did they argue for 2 hours up at the house? Was MM's door open and car running because she was arriving or leaving? It has been said she called the vet about the injured dog. That indicates she was at the house at some point. It has also been said she arrived, parked her car near the kennels and walked down toward the kennels. Did PM tell her about the injured dog and ask her to go up to the house and call the vet? Did PM ride to Moselle with his mom? Did AM know PM was there? It was said 2 vehicles were towed, but those 2 vehicles could have been AM's and MM's. Did she encounter AM there at the house when she went to call the vet and argue with him for 2+ hours then walked back to the kennels to collect PM and leave? Did AM become enraged when she would not budge on the matter of the audit and divorce and grab the AR 15 and follow her down to the kennels? Was the AR 15 stored at the house and the shotgun at the kennels? I have been told by hubby (who apparently buys gun without telling me) that an AR 15 is an expensive gun. But then he said he has some kind of Henry shotgun that is also expensive. Wouldn't they have been locked up to prevent theft?
OP's have said that 9-9:30 pm is almost daylight (or close to dusk) in SC in June. But if it was cloudy or raining, wouldn't it have made it much darker at that time? We have had some supercell thunderstorms here at noon that causes it to be so dark the street lights come on and we have to turn the house lights on. I think the weather could have been a huge factor in AM not seeing PM in the kennels. The cloudy/rainy weather could have made it so dark at 9-9:30 pm that PM would have gone unnoticed under the roof of the kennels.
So many questions yet to be answered.
All this is just my own speculation and opinion.
JMO
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