For those not from here, I just want to say that Pine Junction, where the restaurant and liquor store are, is a VERY SMALL community, and Bailey, where the other restaurant is (although it's been closed for months) is also very small. Even if you had both restaurants full every night, and had a line out the door at the liquor store, there is just only so much money you could make in these small towns, even in the summer with tourists. I struggle to understand how they afforded their huge home (I believe county records show they paid $531k for it.) We know that Maggie worked in the restaurants, but she also worked cleaning the Venue theater to help pay her program fees (tuition) there. Of course, it could be that her parents didn't just pay for everything to teach her responsibility, but I just can't see how they could have been pulling in a whole lot of money, and even less with one of the restaurants shut down for the past 6 months or so. And let's not forget that not only did they have the $531k house here in Bailey, they also owned a home in Conifer and one in Littleton. And if they were so rich as to be a target for something like this, why were they renting out the attic of their house? I don't understand the finances of the family at all, and would love to know where their "real" money came from...which adds to the mystery of who may have been at the home.
Sorry for rambling, just my thoughts this morning.
