Johnny S. Clarke & Lisa Straub- young Ohio couple murdered

[van64]

So here's another question for you--why wasn't the house burned down?

That would have many advantages: concealment of the crime scene, greatly impeding what evidence might have been found there at the house and even though the fire department would have been called, presumably the perps would still have had plenty of time to get away after the fire was set because no one would have realized a crime had been committed until the bodies were found.

Burning down the Straub house would have made a lot of sense so why wasn't it burned down? Think like a criminal profiler...there has to be a reason why it was not, especially if Johnny were on the phone and presumably the perps knew it if he were on the phone.

Had the house been burned down it would not have had the same effect the killer(s) - I assume - intended.

I believe the manner in which they were killed was deliberate and meant to send a strong message. And it did.

Had the house burned down, we probably wouldn't even be discussing this case right now.

Theatricality is a powerful agent.

That is a good point that the house could have not been burned down in order to get a message across BUT THEN that also begs the question why are the perps so sure that they will not be caught? Burning down the house, which would have the same end result--Johnny and Lisa are dead either way--would greatly impede LE's investigation into the case. It could very easily go into a cold case mode then. There would have been no way to obtain DNA then.