wfgodot, this made me smile on a less than happy day (and no- not pointing fun at this case either, it too smells of tragedy to me, but still....
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Not willing to hazard a ranking guess today; however I do have a somewhat stupid question that may have been already answered and I missed it. The money that was recovered from the vehicle...... where did the actual cash itself go after discovery? Was it.....marked?
Good question. I'm pretty sure it was returned to "family" of one sort or another, after a time; at least, I think I read that. Doubly good on the "was it....marked?" I never considered that -
very interesting. (I see mtrooper beat me to that first answer, as I hoped would happen!)
I'm glad I can make people smile a bit, as I sure as heck won't ever be able to figure out an actual solution to any WS case!
I found a legal pad on which I'd scribbled, dating back to the early days of the investigation. This isn't a direct quote, but it captures the spirit of the thing: "Well, hell, that's down there in southeast Oklahoma, some bad boys just came along and that was all she wrote." So my very first decision was "A." It reminded me of Flannery O'Connor's great short story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" - it's the one with the Misfit and his honchos, who happen along and gun down a family of six in Georgia. (More random info: O'Connor sets her tale near the town of
Toomsboro; "Red Oak" is also a good signifying name for a murder tale, as are the Sans Bois ["without wood"] hills.)
Then I got to thinking, and decided - being an English teacher - that some motive other than Pure Evil would work better as a narrative, so I switched to "J," figuring they'd happened onto a meth cooker, a moonshine still, a pot crop, or all three. That's still high on my list.