Traditionally the neighborhood that they are from is the kind of place where a lot of business is done in cash. It is only a few hundred feet from the center of the used auto parts, scrap metal, etc. industry is in Cambridge. Historically it is the kind of place where people only have first names, if they even offer that much information.
For whatever it is worth some local interviewed on TV who claimed they were customers at his auto repair shop said they ran with New York plates
Thanks for that.
Also the house I was speaking of was the inlaws.
Sounds like the chop shop business.