Frankly, the guy’s story about shooting the boy a couple of times, then wrapping the body in a tarp and sitting back down in his chair until the girl came down the stairs a few minutes later doesn’t sound right. I find myself wondering if he caught the two breaking in, marched them at gunpoint into the basement and executed them both. It will be interesting to hear what the physical evidence of bullet holes, etc. has to say.
What is more damning is the guy’s own words:
“If you’re trying to shoot somebody and they laugh at you, you go again,”
He also acknowledged firing “more shots than I needed to.”
Smith said he dragged Kifer into the workshop. But when he realized she was still alive, he shot her “under the chin up into the cranium”.
He described that action as “a good clean finishing shot” because he wanted to end her suffering.