Just heard about this case yesterday and have been catching up. So scared for poor Jayme and wishing her the best possible outcome out of this horrible situation. I've also got some thoughts, mostly just thinking aloud (all MOO):
First, they said that they believe Jayme was at the house during the 911 call, and that officers arrived on scene within 4 minutes of the 911 call ending, and that by then no one was around, and there was no sign of Jayme. Just speculating, but I wonder if they heard what sounded like Jayme screaming in the background of the call as she was being taken away? They’ve previously said no one talked with dispatchers, so that likely rules out her talking directly into the phone or, if one of the parents managed to make the call as they lay dying (which seems unlikely since they were found already dead by police when they arrived) them mentioning their daughter. Someone on one of the past threads mentioned the possibility of the perp(s) having used four-wheelers or some other off-road vehicle, and I think this is a very real possibility, with them getting away so quickly and their vehicles not being spotted by police - it’d be much harder to spot a vehicle in the woods than on the road. I haven’t looked up the address on a map, so how close are other homes to the Closs’s? Would it be plausible for someone to drive through the woods to their place and then leave again without being heard or seen by neighbors? And how plausible is it to do this without leaving tracks visible to law enforcement? (There very well may have been tracks and they're not sharing this information, I'm just curious).
On the topic of the chair, I’m still leaning toward thinking they’re strings from a seat cushion that had been tied on; we had cushions on our dining room chairs for a while, and eventually just from regular use, the ties detached from the cushions, and we left the ties on the chairs until we finally got a new dining room set, just because it wasn’t worth taking them off. This could also explain why we only see three ties instead of all four, if one remained attached to the cushion when it came off - this happened to most of our chairs, where some remained attached to the cushion and some stayed on the chair. The only thing throwing me off is their length; they look rather long to be cushion ties. But if they were restraints of some kind, it seems odd there wouldn’t be four of them - I’d expect two in the back to restrain the arms and one on each front leg for the legs.
Finally, I wonder about the gunshots heard around 12:30 and the 911 call coming around 1:00. This is just mostly me thinking aloud about possible explanations. The gunshots heard seem odd to me for a few reasons... there were only two gunshots heard, only seconds apart, with the second one louder than the first, leading some to speculate that the second shot may have been from outside, possibly when the father was shot in the doorway. But we also know from the presser that both parents died of gunshot wounds, and there only being two shots seconds apart indicates that they had to have been shot in quick succession. I wonder if this indicates more than one perp, because the father was found in the front entryway, but I believe the mother was found in the house (I don't know if they've said where exactly she was found, but I imagine they would have shared if she'd been found outside), so likely some distance from one another, possibly too far apart for one person to shoot them both this quickly, and to shoot them fatally with only two shots, though not necessarily. And then we have up to 30 minutes and likely more than 15 before there's apparently an altercation going on in the 911 call, but if both parents had been shot and they both died as a result of being shot, it seems unlikely they could participate in an altercation. So in this case I'm lead to believe that either it was Jayme that was heard in the altercation, or perhaps that the gunshots heard by neighbors weren't related at all. It would be a major coincidence if they were unrelated, but I feel like there likely would have been more shots than two - it seems very unlikely to me that only two shots could have been enough to kill both parents, especially if the door was shot in as has been rumored - and as others have noted, it's not all that uncommon for people in rural and semi-rural areas to have guns to shoot at wild animals on their property. So maybe someone else nearby shot their gun about 30 minutes before the incident at the Closs's? It's also possible that more than one gun was used, and that one or more had a silencer, preventing the neighbors from hearing it?
Just throwing out a lot of my thoughts about the case so far. MOO, JMO, could definitely be 100% wrong about all of it. Just trying to wrap my head around this horrible tragedy. Sorry for the super long post.
