05-16-2015, 04:54 PM
(05-16-2015, 04:07 PM)ZEROSPHERES Wrote: You don't have to have conspicuous wealth to invite criminals to rob and kill you. All you need is the rumor of having wealth and vulnerability. Herbert Clutter and his family were massacred because one of their workers shared that rumor with a cellmate. They lived in rural Kansas. I guess that maid who received the call to not come to work could fit into a Benedict Arnold scenario.
No doubt -- criminals can target anyone for any number of real or imagined potential gains.
The maid might well be on the up and up and devastated about what happened. I have no reason to believe that she was involved, just listing possible scenarios that I believe LE will be investigating and ruling in or out straight off the bat.
If they don't have surveillance or a reliable eyewitness description of the perp(s), LE will start by looking at the victims' inner circle and those who had access to the home, checking for alibis and possible motives. They'll move out from there if/when those known individuals are cleared.
Hopefully, there will be surveillance or some DNA or forensic evidence recoverable from the scene which can be tied to the crimes. The fire will make that more difficult though. I agree with your speculation that the arson was most likely an attempt to destroy any such evidence.
Killing multiple people and setting a house and car on fire is the work of an extremely cold or extremely pissed off individual; brazen too. The fact that one of the murder victims was only 10-years-old makes it even more disturbing to me that whoever did it is still on the loose.
I hope the killer is identified and arrested soon.