I do not know whether to put this here or in the Tice thread. Morgan is speculating that Tice could have been responsible for the security system.........
"It would not be unrealistic to assume that Mr. Tice was aware of a security system," the sheriff said. "He had been in the home many times, also at the office Mr. Billings was known to pull up his home system so he could observe the children and how the home life was going."
But anyway, it confirms what was speculated here, that the Billings had internet access to their security system and it is possible that someone knew about it and was supposed to disable it via the internet:
http://cbs4.com/local/billings.tice.mexican.2.1121080.html
What time did the surveillance video indicate the invasion began? Could POI have had remote access to the system as far as being able to view it only? Can't you log into a private web site with a password and view live footage? "Mr. Billings was known to pull up his home system" remotely from his office. Could POI have noted the http on one of those occasions; maybe BB spoke the password out aloud, or it was one that could be easily guessed by someone who knew him or saw him type it. This would still require someone with remote access to the controls to shut it down though, and the system couldn't be shut down until immediately before the vehicles arrived or the Billings would have been alerted. Could POI have been at his home/job watching from his PC, see the ninja van arrive, call LPGjr in a panic to tell him in code language that it wasn't working/system wasn't shut down?
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Edited to dismiss this part:
Maybe ninja trainer knew BB would recognize the van. It was a multi-passenger one. I noticed a new model multi-passenger van in a photo of BB's real estate property; maybe the red one had belonged to BB at one time. [Has anyone tracked history of red van?] Could ninja trainer have made a quick judgment call to kill them because if left alive they would be able to see the van on the surveillance video tape after the robbery and connect the van to him?
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Suddenly didn't make sense when I read this on the thread; my thinking while writing it was that they premeditated the robbery not the murder, thus my conclusion at the end of this post. But even if they were counting on a shutdown system not capturing the van, counting on their not being identifiable because of the ninja costumes, planned to leave the Billings alive and tied so they couldn't see the van leave after the robbery, couldn't the Billings still have seen the van arriving from the window?
Meanwhile, could POI need to clear his hard drive, internet history, etc. from his PC because things didn't go as planned; there's evidence that could potentially link him to the crime at this point. Could POI need to call/beg an innocent, unknowing-of-the-robbery-plans person (a person POI might thereafter speak of highly, almost with as great an admiration as POI speaks of Melanie) because he really isn't very good with computers and is having a meltdown at a number of different levels.
[How soon after the murders did the SRSD arrive to question Tice? Was he still working on those Pcola to Tallahassee to Columbia papers? Has this story been collaborated with the guy who needed to get these papers to Tallahassee? Does that guy know anything about computers or remote access that would require communicating with him via telephone the night of murders, thus creating a need for him to be covered by the story and account for calling him, too?]
LPGjr calls the morning after murders, the morning after SRSD has questioned Tice, at 7 a.m.--not 9 a.m.--which Tice STRESSES twice in the WEAR interview [significance of which is not apparent]. LPGjr asks "did you get your documents done"/"did you get it done" (exact quotes from Tice in WEAR interview). Possible translation: did you expunge your PC of the evidence? Tice answers and/or ends telephone call abruptly (did he suspect SRSD might be bugging phone lines at this point?).
Wouldn't Tice know checking telephone records is an initial step in an investigation? Maybe he's pondering this when he calls the investigator BEFORE LPGjr has even become a POI and reports his calling LPGjr the night of the murders and LPGjr returning his call, because they're going to discover this soon, and might it look better if he volunteered this info and the
need help printing/faxing papers story, rather than investigators putting him on the defensive by confronting him with it later. He also could know the call he made after he called LPGjr on the night of the murders would likely be in the telephone records, so he reports this call as part of the story as well.
Could it all really just be about $: "We all thought Bud built that house and built a fortress that he could put his cash in." —Tice in WEAR/Thomas interview.
Other than the documented details from confirmed POI, this is just pondering, like Sheriff Morgan speculated, on "what would not be unrealistic".
P.S. Tice said in WEAR interview that "about 3 years ago, we reconnected" referring to LPGjr. Wasn't their something significant attached to the year 2006 in earlier WSleuthing?
