Moonsie
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Two reasons...
1) Doing it at night means there are virtually no witnesses around. (Except for the parents. And as you said, the perp seemed intent on killing them.) If you think about the other options like when she is at school, church, or dance class there would be witnesses everywhere. Even taking her from the bus stop would be tough, because there is going to be a decent amount of traffic on that road at 8am. At least enough that it would be almost impossible to pull over, grab her, and take off with no one seeing it.
2) Much more getaway time. If everything had gone right and there was no 911 call, the perp would have had 10+ hours of getaway time. Taking her during the day pretty much guarantees that she's going to be reported missing pretty quickly.
If this was planned I think the perp simply weighed the options and decided that the parents would have to be killed and it would have to be done at night to ensure the fewest witnesses possible and the maximum amount of getaway time. (Now obviously the getaway time was greatly reduced due to the 911 call, but without that...)
I agree with almost all of this, except that the 911 call mattered somehow with respect to getaway time. The perp is long gone and without a trace. The 911 call had no impact on getaway time imo.
This person knew exactly how long it would take LE to get to the house, and was correct.
This person anticipated that LE would not immediately assume a crime of this magnitude had occurred, and was correct.
Perp probably planned crime so it would take a few minutes as Fitz has stated. If a 911 call was made - whether by someone in the house or by someone hearing the gun - it wouldn’t matter.
If I’m a half mile away by the time LE arrives, I may as well be a million miles away. It was 1 am on a Sunday night when I bet 95% of Barron is asleep or at the plant working.
moo.