to expand. it COULD Have been an inside job... there are a lot of dynamics in a blended family situation. sometimes kids are angry for one reason or another. sometimes exes are.
That was the first thing that crossed my mind after it was established that the father had also been murdered, either a disgruntled member of the family or an ex-husband. But there again, we have to go back to
the premise that it would've been very difficult for one person to have controlled all the victims by themselves. That means this family member would've had to get additional help, if for nothing else but to get a ride back into town.
I'm still leaning towards an ex-employee that was harboring a grudge. He was a businessman, and had likely hired and fired a few people throughout the years. Sometimes employees take being fired very personally......regardless if it came about due to their own actions. A lot of really dumb employees seem to believe that the owner of a business is literally rolling around in money due to watching the cash register intake all day. They never take into account the amount of overhead, inventory, employee wages, insurance, advertising, and social security wages he has to shell out, along with a myriad of other expenses. I say they're dumb because they have no idea how a business is run or what it takes to run one. All they see is a
lot more money coming in than they take home in their check..........which to them is highly unfair.
For a misguided person like that to get a couple of his cohorts to help out during a home invasion probably wouldn't be all that difficult.....especially if there was the promise of a big payday as incentive.
I think what appears to be a lot of rage in these shootings was brought on by the frustration that there most likely was little or no money being kept inside of that home. The big payday and get-rich-quick scheme fell flat on it's face. That may also explain why the father was loaded up in a vehicle and taken elsewhere........continued coercion.
