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I said that before that the security cameras at the house and the guard shack being broken made this the luckiest murderers ever.
That's a great point about the beheading. lt takes a special breed of killer to take somebody's head off. A gun is much easier to destroy and make disappear, or obliterate the barrel's rifling and the bolt face if you're worried about ballistics.hmm, people keep saying family wouldnt behead but I want to know what planet they live on, cuz they are few but it happens and dismemberments
anyway......I dont thnk he has a person in mind, its another scare tactic or decoy IMO
but now that we are pretty certain, well I AM, that the beheading was NOT PLANNED..........then it could be family or anyone
it came down to it HAD to be done and family may not have been the actual one/s committing this act anyway if hired out but for some reason it came to it needed to be done
If you dont think a bullet would require beheading someone in order to hide evidence,
what about BITING............HOW.........HOW are you going to get al YOUR BLOOD and DNA OUT OF HIS MOUTH without beheading him?
jsut some thoughts
Good night all!! Glad everyone is jumping on board!
Welcome to WS.
No burn scene that we know of.
I can't believe that I found another crime where the male was beheaded and the female was taken. It happened in Wyoming just two months after the Dermonds were killed. The couple did not know the killer until a sex for cash ad on CraigsList. The killer later killed himself after being surrounded by police. Almost five years later, the victim's skull was found this last month in Michigan and just identified which is why it probably showed up in the news.
I don't know of a connection with the Dermonds unless the cuts during the beheading were the same or the Dermonds ever used CraigsList and there is the timing too, but it is interesting.
Skull found five years later of beheading victim who was murdered along with his pregnant girlfriend | Daily Mail Online
Police: Remains found in northern Kent Co. is murdered man from Wyoming
Ok. Now you have me re-thinking this whole thing. If the murders weren’t planned, and it was some kind of situation that went sideways, and the killer improvised and grabbed a knife from the kitchen and the towels and used a makeshift cinderblock anchor he already had, hit Shirley with a hammer that was handy, and already had a gun on him, it could all fit. This means it was someone who arrived and left by boat. But what kind of scenario calls for a person or persons arriving at the home by boat, likely early in the morning, things escalating unexpectedly, the murder of Shirley happening on the boat, and the killer or killers departing and ditching Shirley almost certainly at night? What did they do all day? If they were at the house all day how did they leave no prints? Gah!! This case .....I'm starting to think this was not as organized as I formally believed. I've read that the red concrete blocks were placed in a mesh bag, a little smaller than a laundry bag and tied to SDs bound legs with some sort of Para cord or rope.
The red concrete blocks as I am understanding is more of a landscaping type of block rather than a building type of block. Probably the same red concrete block I used for my fire pit. They are about 20-30 pounds each. And from reading some recent post they are ample in the Ds neighborhood.
Here's the thing. I myself use a mesh bag, probably about 24x24 inches to store my anchor and anchor rope in for my boat. When I get to my location on the water it is nice to have it all contained and ready to pull out of the bag to anchor into position. When I'm done in that spot I pull up the anchor line and nicely wrap it into the bag as the anchor is coming up. The anchor and the line area able to drain and not get mildew because it is within a mesh bag.
Now I like to think I'm clever but I bet I'm not the only one who operates this way with their anchor....
So these items are already readily available on the boat that was used and the red landscaping block is readily available within the confines the Ds neighborhood. The only thing left now is the knife.
Does anyone on here know of a link or a interview, anything which talks about the knife other than it was large? Has there been any discussion on whether any large knifes were missing from say a butchers block in the house. I can tell you that I would not know if a knife was missing from my elderly mothers home. I don't keep track of her knifes and would only be able to tell if one was missing if there was an empty spot in a butchers block.
What I'm saying is that the knife could have easily been from the Ds home or was already on the boat. As someone who has had several boats I can tell you that there is always a large knife on my boat in case we had to cut loose a stuck anchor or whatever. A knife on a boat is a must to me.
If someone was to plan this out wouldn't they have used heavier cinder blocks or concrete blocks? There would be no need to utilize a mesh bag to contain 2 lighter red landscaping blocks? Sounds like a rig to me.
They utilized what was available to them.....
All of he necessary items were already easily available to the killer. The boat is is were the answers are...The boat carried the mesh bag, rope and possibly the knife. The boat carried SD body. Who has access to a boat and knows that particular lake that knows the Ds?
Well..........this would explain why these perps didnt give a crap if she was found..... They did just need time to get away and thats it.........gotta check this one out...Crazy!Ok. Now you have me re-thinking this whole thing. If the murders weren’t planned, and it was some kind of situation that went sideways, and the killer improvised and grabbed a knife from the kitchen and the towels and used a makeshift cinderblock anchor he already had, hit Shirley with a hammer that was handy, and already had a gun on him, it could all fit. This means it was someone who arrived and left by boat. But what kind of scenario calls for a person or persons arriving at the home by boat, likely early in the morning, things escalating unexpectedly, the murder of Shirley happening on the boat, and the killer or killers departing and ditching Shirley almost certainly at night? What did they do all day? If they were at the house all day how did they leave no prints? Gah!! This case .....
That's a great point about the beheading. lt takes a special breed of killer to take somebody's head off. A gun is much easier to destroy and make disappear, or obliterate the barrel's rifling and the bolt face if you're worried about ballistics.
Cutting off a head because investigators might match a bullet to a particular gun is an awful extreme measure to take, unless you're just a sick puppy. But how do you make sure you've gotten rid of your DNA if they bit you? IF l killed two people and was worried about ANY evidence, let alone DNA, l'd go to the same source a lot of murderers go to, fire. Was the crime scene burnt?
Sorry if l am totally off base, l just jumped into the middle of this conversation and know nothing about this case yet. l just signed up and couldn't wait to throw in my two cents.
Welcome to WS.
No burn scene that we know of.
I can't believe that I found another crime where the male was beheaded and the female was taken. It happened in Wyoming just two months after the Dermonds were killed. The couple did not know the killer until a sex for cash ad on CraigsList. The killer later killed himself after being surrounded by police. Almost five years later, the victim's skull was found this last month in Michigan and just identified which is why it probably showed up in the news.
I don't know of a connection with the Dermonds unless the cuts during the beheading were the same or the Dermonds ever used CraigsList and there is the timing too, but it is interesting.
Skull found five years later of beheading victim who was murdered along with his pregnant girlfriend | Daily Mail Online
Police: Remains found in northern Kent Co. is murdered man from Wyoming
Welcome to WS.
No burn scene that we know of.
I can't believe that I found another crime where the male was beheaded and the female was taken. It happened in Wyoming just two months after the Dermonds were killed. The couple did not know the killer until a sex for cash ad on CraigsList. The killer later killed himself after being surrounded by police. Almost five years later, the victim's skull was found this last month in Michigan and just identified which is why it probably showed up in the news.
I don't know of a connection with the Dermonds unless the cuts during the beheading were the same or the Dermonds ever used CraigsList and there is the timing too, but it is interesting.
Skull found five years later of beheading victim who was murdered along with his pregnant girlfriend | Daily Mail Online
Police: Remains found in northern Kent Co. is murdered man from Wyoming
Thanks so much.Last I recall Tricia is busy with some other stuff but Levi said it would be about a week and that was 2 or 3 weeks ago
Ok. Now you have me re-thinking this whole thing. If the murders weren’t planned, and it was some kind of situation that went sideways, and the killer improvised and grabbed a knife from the kitchen and the towels and used a makeshift cinderblock anchor he already had, hit Shirley with a hammer that was handy, and already had a gun on him, it could all fit. This means it was someone who arrived and left by boat. But what kind of scenario calls for a person or persons arriving at the home by boat, likely early in the morning, things escalating unexpectedly, the murder of Shirley happening on the boat, and the killer or killers departing and ditching Shirley almost certainly at night? What did they do all day? If they were at the house all day how did they leave no prints? Gah!! This case .....
It was said somewhere along the way by SS that SD could no longer do the stairs, nor go to the waterfront (likely due to perhaps uneven ground, and the property's decline towards the water?).. I forget the word that SS used to describe her (suffered frailties?).. something that he said he had discovered after the fact. I'm thinking she had to have been dead before she was put on the boat.
Even if a boat had to have been used to dispose of SD's body, I believe she (and RD's head) were taken by road-vehicle, perhaps to a boat waiting somewhere(?). To me, it was way riskier to arrive by water, since virtually anyone could have happened to go by in a boat and notice the killer's boat parked there for some time, versus arriving at a heavily treed property on a dead end, with empty lots on either side, and the only neighbor two doors down apparently away in Asia.
I'm still really confused about the difference in hair color between the 'grey' which was found in both of RD's hands, versus the 'blonde' that SD had at the time, and both descriptions reported by same person at same time... but yet obviously DNA testing would have been done to confirm the hair in RD's hands belonged to SD.. it almost makes me wonder if the killer(s) took some hair from SD, perhaps from a hairbrush in a bathroom, and put it in RD's hands, to make it appear to be something different than it actually was. (ie a LOT of planning, whether long-term or at the time).
How did the killers know that the cameras were 'out' at the guard shack entrance, and that the D's security system was also not functioning?
Why were no phonecalls from the kids to police made between Thursday night and Tues evening (that is 5 full days) to do a wellness check, if the son reportedly spoke to the dad almost daily? We already know none of the kids called a neighbor to check (otherwise the neighbor *would* have checked, or at least informed police of said request, and also would've had the contact info to give to police instead of police having to track it down in the hours after RD's body was found).