just a couple of random thoughts..im familiar (meaning im local & know most everybody involved, but none of them "personaly")
DNA talk..ive been down this road before with a missing relative..it took a little over a year to get positive results back after bones were found, AND the DNA profiles of the parents were allready done up, i dont think it normally goes as fast as we see on television
The husband/father...he drinks alot, ive ran across him in a social setting for lack of a better word...i had the impression 1st time i met him that he would "spout off" about anything.....as in "i'd give any amount of money to get rid of so & so", and then ramble on into his next babbling....weather he would actually commision an order as has been suggest & speculated on here, i cant say, i dont know him well enough
the hollisters, my last personal dealing with them would have been 20 years or so ago, i considered them both crazy, again, that was just my impression, she had them "crazy eyes" going on
ok, if someone wants to "dig" on the hollisters, back in the mid 80's IIRC, they lived right off of hwy 9 (north i think), a little west of highway 75, which would put them in netawaka, or just south of the city limits..this would be jackson county kansas
they stole a bunch of cattle (this is all from memory & would be considered hear-say at this point i guess), & when LE was close to catching them, they burnt the bar down, witht he cows, & claimed insurance....heck, its all fuzzy, but it was pretty big news back then
im guessing some of you arm chair detectives that are good with search engines, etc could find something out...again though, this would be jackson county rather than nemaha, & the topeka capitol journal would have covered it im sure
prayers & good vibes to the kimmis, im sorry you are going through this, like i said, i have set in the exact chair you are in, its tough