I realize it's really common for a horrible past to come to light *after the fact* but in this case, it doesn't seem to be there. That's why this just seems TOO tidy. Although, that being said, I guess there really are really really stupid criminals that make huge mistakes their first rodeo.
Maybe that's part of what makes me doubt Towns was involved, or that he acted alone if he was involved. Small towns people know each other, even though they typically band together and support their community, people know what you do. If the kid next door to me to the west was arrested for something similar, I'd find it hard to believe, the kid to the east, I'd have no troubles believing it. There are kids that seem to find trouble w/little difficulty, ones that have run ins with others in the community frequently.
I'm not local to GA. But on our local FB upcycle page if someone tries to scam another person, is dishonest, does anything that is out of character, they get blasted and shown the error in their ways. This is a small town, close to the size of McRae, most news is posted as rumor on FB before a news outlet can even arrive at the scene of the incident, be it a car accident, forest fire, missing person, etc.
It's hard to believe no one from McRae has even posted as rumor that Jay was a bad egg, that Jay ripped them off, that Jay got aggressive with them, that Jay had used CL to rip people off before.
When he was suspected of petty theft before there wasn't enough evidence to charge him. So he got away with stealing stuff, but leaves so much evidence in a murder that he's the one and only suspect?
Then again maybe he's just dumb.
eta: about the gun, why are they still looking for it? If Jay left all of this other evidence just waiting to point to him, then where is the gun? That's the one thing that should certainly have his fingerprints on it, one solid piece of evidence.
