Thank-you, Betty P. I like to visualize but, even using a system like Google Earth, you really don't get a true picture because being ground level is best but, this road they lived on isn't mapped out with that ability to provide ground level. I don't pay much attention myself to dogs that bark in the night around here until they've barked for "too long." With my own dog, his first 5-8 howls are "free" but, if it goes on longer or changes in tone or intensity, I'll find out what's up and put a stop to it. I have neighbors, though, who will let their dogs go on and off, all night long but, once I'm asleep, they don't wake me up. The Rhodens lived with much more land between neighbors than I do so they probably got used to the dogs barking at night. Maybe they didn't care and hardly even noticed and had no neighbors who heard any more than some dogs in the distance... not even a loud enough sound to wake the neighbors up, I wouldn't think. I have a train track that goes by here and there are trains, at times, going all night long but it doesn't wake me up anymore. "Normal sounds" become background by their very repetitive nature. Look at that land they live on. I bet dogs were barking on and off all night long... possum, raccoons, rabbits, skunks....
I also always thought FR's trailer and CSr's trailer were approached by two separate parties at the same time but, now with this news of CSr having more decomposition and not really knowing if GR was even in CSr's house at the time of CSr's death... I guess I'll have to do a little more thinking on this. I'm also confused by the statement that CSr saw them approaching. Well, how can they know that? The answer to that is important, I think. I do think CSr ran at one point and headed for the back bedroom... not to get anything like money or drugs but just to gain some advantage where he could use that retreat and try to shoot back at multiple people. I think he had already received the defensive gun shot wound to his arm and then he ran for his life at that point. He was shot through the door by someone coming down the hall after him and then I think he died right in that room after making a good try of fighting back. Because I think any discussion about "where is the money" or "where is this or that" was all finished by the time CSr tried to turn the tables and got shot in the arm; I don't think the shooting was done as a "one by one" torture event.
My comment seems too long... I'll add more later in smaller sized comments.