Although anything is possible, they did have a suspect at the time. They did find the weapon that killed the couple.
I couldn't find the link, but this information is in the first thread, page 13, post 302, posted by phenol-red.
I read, LE stopped a drunk driver 4 months after the murders, and discovered he had a stolen pistol that turned out to be the murder weapon.
What year was the pistol reported stolen? from what city and state?
Why would LE talk about it being a "stolen" gun when this POI had owned it 4 or 5 years.
Yes it was a stolen gun before his brother gave it to him as a Christmas gift, 4 or 5 years before this happened.
The way LE worded it, makes a person think it was stolen in the last few months..and wasn't in this guys possession...which is wrong! Why did LE try to 'cover 'for this creep?
Where did LE stop his car? in South Carolina or North Carolina, on what road?
Was his car or home ever checked for evidence?
Did he have a bad drinking/drug problem, any DUI's or other convictions?
I suspect he did it, His wife was in a N.C. hospital and he needed money, is my guess....
What are the ODDS he just happened to have the murder weapon in his vehicle, 4 months (Dec.) after 2 brutal murders...in August.
he either did the crime or knew who did...why was he carrying a .357/38 pistol in his car, & drinking? was the tire marks from the scene of the murders ever matched to his families vehicles?
The POI said the pistol was a gift to him from his brother 4 or 5 years ago, so why did he see need to file the serial number off the gun, when this would only hurt the value.
This alone would throw a red flag up to me.
Having a concealed murder weapon in ones possession is NO coincidence...
It would take a idiot to believe this mans story...
Investigators apparently does very little or NO follow up on his 'story', why, all this slackness with this guy?
LE definitely dropped the ball on this case at that time..causing this to become a cold case. WHY? somebody should have been fired.
A guy driving drunk with a murder weapon, should have been investigated throughly, everywhere he had been before the murders. minute by minute, Aug. 7th, 8th and 9th...
and thrown in jail on a felony, Yet it was forgotten or dropped by LE?
don't tell me it was just because someone 'said' he was at the hospital visiting his wife...I doubt he stayed ALL night in the hospital, the couple was killed between midnight and 1 am...in those days visiting hours was up at 7:00 pm.....
It is only a 2 hour drive from the hospital to Sumter or about 89 miles...
He could have left the hospital at 10:30 pm and been in Sumter at 12:30 midnight and back at the hospital by 2:30 or 3:00 am,
No one will ever convince me the nurses were checking Mr. Henry every hour, all night long....or if he was there all night..
and why not investigate this guys brother and son?....and just maybe one of the three would not have gotten away with murder.....:behind-bar