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"but I can't say "what" happened. You have a theory?"

What bothered me about the case was the fact that the families cars are there and the car door was open. My wife suggested that whoever left the car was in a hurry. My thoughts are this and are in no way meant to throw mud on them but does fit some unusual facts.

The husband either suspects or knows his wife has a lover. He comes home to find the lover's car in the driveway. He grabs a gun and leaves his car in a hurry, rushes inside and confronts them, killing or wounding one or both. He takes the two of them or the bodies in the lover's car and leaves with his son in tow. Now he must try to get away and start a new life somewhere else.

The advantage of this from his standpoint is that the police are confused, giving him time, and his use of the lover's vehicle gives him complete cover as it is not suspected nor is the lover known to police, nor is the lover likely to be missed or even connected to the event.

I would be looking for any other missing persons reported in Mississippi or neighboring states around the same time for evidence supporting this scenario.

Nonsense.

If I was the authorities I'd be looking at the step son that was left out of the will. He would have motive to dispose of the whole family

Also Micheal's father was murdered in a robbery 10 years ago. The murderer's of his father are up for parole and gossip is he was going to plerad to the parole board against their parole.

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.