OK now here's more K0rnfusion from my brain:
The maul was collected from the kitchen. Supposedly the maul was used in all the killings. Mark was found LAST, upstairs...he could not have been in the kitchen - right - because the police had to enter the basement from the kitchen. His body had to have been upstairs in the main part of the house.
Mark had arrived sometime Thursday afternoon/early evening and was already dead when the officer arrived that night at 11:58 p.m. and Sam told them everyone was at the movies.
Then two officers come back - and the maul is found in the kitchen, and the door to the basement is in the kitchen...just saying it was handy in case he was thinking of offing a cop.
So now, how come there would be a chunk of wood involved in Mark's bludgeoning if he was upstairs? Was there a fireplace upstairs in the master bedroom? Sam could have told Mark, they're upstairs then followed him up and as soon as poor Mark entered an empty room and turned around, bam. But would he really grab a chunk of wood? Maybe the maul was still in another room when he went after Mark and the chunk of wood only knocked him out so Sam had to go get a better weapon.
So, the three women are in Emma's room. The cops finally smell something - enter, find the three bodies and then go get a search warrant and upon their return, warrant in hand, they discover Mark.
The only way I see Debra ending up in Emma's room is that she was killed there, but it says the three women were either asleep or in an otherwise defenseless position. Good grief at first I thought that infered she too was killed in her sleep, but now I see "otherwise defenseless" differently. Debra wasn't asleep in there, she was probably just ambushed so quickly, no time to react, no defensive wounds.
So I think the girls were killed first and if done in their sleep, that's premeditation all the way. Then Debra - she came in - murder 1 on her too and also on Mark. They way I see it, if there's a grain of truth to his comment to the cab driver about waiting for her to fall asleep (see Casey Anthony and the law of half truths, lol) and then leaving, he waited for the girls to fall asleep and then went on his vicious rampage. I wonder how much time lapsed between the killing of the girls and Debra and I wonder what Sam did during THAT time.
Whether he knew Mark was coming 20 minutes before or saw him drive up, he obviously intended to kill him.
Motive? I think he was really mad at Mel and Emma ~ something brought out a deep rage in him and I'm pretty sure it has to do with rejection. After he killed them, I am imagining that he felt a sense of power he had never experienced before, that God-like power some killers say they feel. He then thought either he was just a bad
and what the hell...I am going to kill them all, or he felt he needed to feel the power of killing again.
The call to the police to come over is still bugging the crap out of me.
sources:
http://www.nbc12.com/Global/story.asp?S=11445452
According to this search warrant, 98 items were recovered from Debra Kelley's home including a stained ball-peen hammer from a front bedroom and a wood splitting maul from the kitchen. All four victims were bludgeoned. Three of the four bodies were found in a bedroom.
http://www.wtvr.com/news/wtvr-farmville-indictments-continued,0,1321614.story
As CBS 6 reported two weeks ago, the key murder weapon was a wood-cutting maul., which was found stained in the kitchen. The stained knife was found in a bedroom and a ball peen hammer no stains noted by police was found in another bedroom.
The documents indicate all three female victims were found in one bedroom.
http://www.quoterelish.com/quote/16371499/Stabbing-and-stabbing-till-theres-nothing-left-McCroskey-sings-in-My-Dark-Side.-McCroskey-will
officers initially discovered only three bodies in the house, then left to get a search warrant before returning and finding the fourth 
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