burblestein
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The pocketbooks in the room together remind me of when someone is coming over and you want to put your bag in a safe place. Anyone have this thought?
I think the intruder may have collected their purses, perhaps to search them for money, was looking for something specific or simply because he wanted to make sure none of the women had ID on them then he placed them there all lined up.
I think looking for money is the one thing we can rule out because there was a massive amount of cash left.
I think looking for money is the one thing we can rule out because there was a massive amount of cash left.
The way the purses were arranged, at least in the photo released, doesn't seem normal. 2 teenage girls get home at 2am and methodically place their purses in a line like that instead of taking them into Suzi's room? Seems unlikely. I think the intruder may have collected their purses, perhaps to search them for money, was looking for something specific or simply because he wanted to make sure none of the women had ID on them then he placed them there all lined up. The thought of that gives me the creeps. I've always wondered how long the abductor(s)were in the house and how they managed to not leave any trace behind. Although I'm sure they did leave forensic traces which were lost in the compromised scene or just missed by LE.
Drugs? IMO just speculation.
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MM, I think you are correct about what the front door being unlocked tells us. That was the door of exit. They just pulled it shut. Why would they bother to lock it? Susie and Sherrill were not coming back. If we had any illusions that the women left voluntarily, the unlocked door ends them. If Sherrill was security conscious, she would never leave a door unlocked voluntarily, especially in the middle of the night. If the women were being abducted, they would likely not have asked the abductors to lock up. So whatever happened, that door was the exit point. My first thought is that leaving the door shut, but unlocked was an artifact of the nature of the crime--herding three women out a door and into a van. Pull the door shut. Who cares if it's locked because no one is coming back. It's actually more of a mystery if the door is unlocked because the cars are in the driveway and the purses in the house. It's as if the three women just walked down the street.
I'm thinking the door could cut either way for the perps. If it had just been Suzie and Sherrill, no one would have come looking for them, other than to call and maybe drive over and knock. So it might not even matter if the door were locked. If an average person knocks on a door and gets no answer, they don't try to open it. Now, I've beaten up Janelle and Mike a good bit over opening the door. But they know the family and had social plans for that morning, saw the cars, and assumed Suzie was home. That's especially likely because the shattered porch light glass was still there--surely that would have been cleaned up as soon as someone saw it when leaving the house. So when no one answered the door, they opened it up to "yoohoo" in order to find out if Suzie and Stacy were going to the water park. If anything, finding the door LOCKED and the cars in the driveway and no one answering the phone might have triggered more alarm in the kids and the McCalls. If they COULDN'T get in the house and the cars were there, they would know right away that something was very wrong.
The side door key issue is another thing. Are you thinking that someone else had Suzie's key? And got in the house that way? It would explain a lot if the perp had a key.