Maybe not. I am thinking along the lines of LE wanting a bigger share of the profits under the threat of being busted for the drugs. Rhodens tell them they won’t and if they go down than LE is going down with them. To me it looks like all witnesses had to be eliminated or they were going to be exposed. This could have been easily planned by a couple of dishonest deputies.
Could be, but IMHo, if anything like your theory is correct there's a lawyer in the mix somewhere. Dead yet, or not.
An interesting theory. In fact, the sheriff in charge originally said, in twenty years there had never been a LE issue with this family. I found that to be a little odd, since the men in the family were always getting into fights with other locals. The cockfighting operation appears to be very close to the road and would be hard to miss. Also read that they were hard workers and active in community affairs. So who knows.....one interesting tidbit is that the youngest victim, sixteen, had been the target of a road rage incident. It seems a woman driver, 33, went after the boy. Slapped him around pretty badly, left bruises and charges were brought against the woman. The boy’s mother who is a victim also was active in getting the woman arrested. Two days before the murder the woman was given one year probation and not to go near the family.