[rebelgirl10]

Some of the people who first saw the scenes (friends of the family, I work with one of them) said there were shell casings from a 22 by his truck and a pool of blood by the open door of the truck. They think he came home to a crime that morning, his cigarettes (which he always carried with him) were on the counter with some money as they would be when he first gets home, walked to the back of the house and discovered intruders or something and had to run from gunfire to his truck to retrieve his gun, where he may have been seriously wounded. From word of mouth from people who saw the scene the first day. It looks like one person may be seriously hurt or worse, and the wife and child may have been abducted... The house is fairly close to the interstate and the road that runs by their house is fairly busy for such a rural location. The nearest neighbors house is about 500 yards away... Michael didn't own or have a 22.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Yoo-hoo. Over here. Insider.

[Indie]

It does sound like a home invasion/robbery/abduction to me. I don't sense an inside deal at all. I feel strangers did it after casing the place. Just my gut.

[cherry]

thanks for that personal perspective....keep it up, if you can.....

that is what I love about FR....we have so many lurkers and posters, we can always get a close-in report from people that live near by .....

It sounds very plausible that it was a burglary, rape type situation that was interrupted....horrible at the start, even worse at the end of it...

shouldn't there be tire tracks of some sort?

and in most cases, a person always leaves some dna track behind ( except in the Westerfield case where there was none, incredibly)...

[Magnolia]

Welcome to FR rebelgirl10! Your perspective is welcome.