If they’re “ditching the bodies in inconspicuous places at night,” how are those victims telling family members everything is peachy, no matter how many guns are being held to their head?
How?
Easy Tom, they very well could be holding the same people hostage they took from day one.
They could still be hunkered down in the same home waiting for things to cool. These guys are not stupid Tom.
In this case they’d allow Aunt Hogjaw to speak with Uncle Jimmy if he happened to call on the phone. She’d have a knife to her throat or gun to her head. They know anything unusual in that region would get attention so they’d have to allow the calls.
The reason they’d likely need to kill hostage, is because once they decide to move on, it would buy them more time to put lots of miles between them. If they didn’t kill Aunt Hogjaw as soon as they bailed out, she’d be screaming to the cops quickly and they’d zoom in and be hot on their trail.
These scenarios have all happened before.