I hope I do this right Bessie. I have a problem with:
#3- Ron has an idea that it(gun) might be in the culvert and tells Misty where to look for it.
#4-Chelsea and Misty find the gun in the culvert and return it to Ron
#5- Ron cleans it and hides it in his room in his mh
#6-A few days before Haleigh disappears he walks around the corner to Tyler and sees Jo GF looking in the culvert because Jo thought the gun was still there.
Now, IMO, Ron knew exactly where that gun was in the culvert. I also believe that the culvert that they are referring to was indeed over at Tommy's house on Tyler. We have Ron telling Cobra that HE was the one that found the gun in the culvert but then we have Misty in her LVA test:waitasec: claiming that her and Chelsea found it but with help from Ron. So IMO, no matter how you slice it, Ron knew that gun was there, whether he found it or he told Misty where to find it. Ron claims that he washed it, cleaned it and turned it over to LE. Now in the police report they note that Ron admitted to having the Beretta, so is this the gun that he turned over to them? I would think so. This gun may be the one he turned over and evidence was wiped clean which equals NO PROOF. But without a crime scene or a body, there woud be nothing to match the gun to, like shell casings, KWIM? Which also equals NO PROOF, IMO.
Then we have Ron telling Cobra that HE was the one that hid the gun there. WTH? I thought to myself why would Ron hide the gun on Tommy's property to begin with? It makes sense that he did because he knew exactly where to find it. But what gets me is when Ron is telling Cobra that he went and got the gun in fear of Tommy getting into trouble if LE found the gun on his property. Why would Ron care about that? Was he expecting LE to be at Tommy's place sometime after he hid the gun there? That's what it sounds like and Ron had to make sure he retrieved that gun and cleaned it before LE found it. IMHO...Ron's prints were on that gun and the gun was not hidden in that culvert to protect it from JO. That gun was hidden for another reason....and cleaned.
Now, Ron claims that he walks around the corner and sees JO's GF looking in the culvert for the gun, so Ron assumes Jo told her to look there because he thought the gun was still there. So if Ron hid the gun...and didn't tell noboby....how does Jo know that the gun was ever even in the culvert? Did he see Ron put it there? IDK but I got a feeling that Tommy knew where that gun was and why it was put there to begin with. And IMO, that has something to do with Tommy getting a headless rat in his mailbox. We also have Tommy admitting that there is NO PROOF, it's gone. IMO, Tommy is NOT the only one that knows this. I think Ron knows this as well....hell, he helped remove some of the evidence by washing that d@#$ gun! That is why I feel that this gun is connected to this case somehow.
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