Fire in upper NW?

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Anonymous wrote:I remember that they had big dogs. Big, beautiful dogs that would have probably attacked any intruders. I've been wondering, did they die too?

So sad and disturbing. All of this.

there is a photo of the dogs being led away by neighbors. they look fine in the photo. i think it is on one of the local Tv websites

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Just read the latest Washington Post report.

Neighbor said a landscaping crew was there to cut grass that morning.

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I've heard that there will be a 4:00 p.m. press conference about this tragedy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just read the latest Washington Post report.

Neighbor said a landscaping crew was there to cut grass that morning.

I now wonder if this is a professional job, either kidnapping and extortion, or retaliation for business dealings, gone terribly awry. The father is said to have business in Puerto Rico, and you do not want to be on the wrong side of some people in Latin America (PR is close enough). A "landscaping crew" brought in a the right time could conveniently silence the noise of the turmoil inside the house. This is a terrible tragedy, and I am sure the police will devote every resource to finding the perpetrator(s) of this crime.

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I'm confused about who sent the text the other housekeeper or the wife? When I watched the video it seemed like the other housekeeper sent the text not the wife.

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What if the wife went loco and did this ? Just thinking outside the box here since it hasn't been revealed who all died.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if the wife went loco and did this ? Just thinking outside the box here since it hasn't been revealed who all died.

I don't think this is outside the box. Most commonly, people are murdered by family members or people they know. I doubt this is some strange intruder.

[Anonymous]

In a fire, it's possible the police haven't been able to confirm the identities of the victims.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What if the wife went loco and did this ? Just thinking outside the box here since it hasn't been revealed who all died.

Or the father? Or one of the teenage daughters?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just read the latest Washington Post report.

Neighbor said a landscaping crew was there to cut grass that morning.

Landscaping crew could silence noises (as PP mentioned) and of course, provide the gasoline accelerant. No one ever looks twice at landscaping trucks in neighborhoods.

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Anonymous wrote:The fact that neither parent has made a statement makes me think the three adults are both parents and one housekeeper, or maybe everyone else already thinks that but I haven't read that on this thread yet. I did read in the Daily Mail (the UK website which seems to be particularly interested in this story), that one of the adults had blunt force trauma to the head.

I thought I had read that BOTH housekeepers lived at the home, which makes me wonder why the second one wouldn't have been there. I hate to say it, but was the second housekeeper involved??? Not that she was there, but helped the people who did, if in fact it was an inside job. I hope not. I do know a very, VERY wealthy family where their driver and a few friends broke in/ held hostage one of the parents and the children in their own home for a ransom, it was about 10 years ago in the north east. They were in disguise and injected the parent with a "special serum" to induce them to pay. Thankfully no one was physically very hurt and the men were captured, and then it was discovered the ring leader was their driver. So these things, as weird and as sad as they are, actually happen. This entire story is heart breaking.

The opposite for me. If both adult parents are dead, you'd think their parents would have said something by now. Could the husband be on the lam?

If the husband isn't one of the victims, then who would the 3rd adult be?

Affair?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What if the wife went loco and did this ? Just thinking outside the box here since it hasn't been revealed who all died.

I don't think this is outside the box. Most commonly, people are murdered by family members or people they know. I doubt this is some strange intruder.

Yes, familicide.

Statistically speaking, that's what this would be. Instead of everyone blaming Puerto Rican gardeners.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just read the latest Washington Post report.

Neighbor said a landscaping crew was there to cut grass that morning.

Landscaping crew could silence noises (as PP mentioned) and of course, provide the gasoline accelerant. No one ever looks twice at landscaping trucks in neighborhoods.

Have the landscapers been detained for questioning? If not, there is a need to act fast on this; landscapers are almost all undocumented aliens and they often just disappear back over the border in these situations without a trace.

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I think I remember that when the couple was murdered in Belt Road about 7-8 years ago, the neighbors commented about landscapers working in the yard too. To drown out noise?

[Anonymous]

The blunt force trauma; abandoned car (that belonged to the mother); and the fire all seem to stronly indicate this was a home invasion/murder type scenario.

Probably came in the early morning and held the family hostage, keeping them alive, until the banks opened so that they could force one of the parents to make a large withdrawal from a bank. (ATM withdrawals have relatively low cash limits.) They may have had the parent drive the car to the bank with one of the perps in the front seat and a second vehicle following. They then abandon the car and return to the home with the parent who has made the withdrawal, with the family members held hostage used as leverage to keep the parent cooperative as they got the money. Then murdered the family and housekeeper in the home and started the fire to destroy forensically useful evidence. Sadly, it is probably easy to look up how to set a delayed fire, so they set it and leave and it is only discovered when the smoke becomes apparent.

If my child was a hostage and I played through scenarios in my head I might very well hope that getting them the money would result in all being left unharmed. They could have said that if they did not get in touch with their confederates every 5 minutes (proving they had not been caught by law enforcement) the child and other parent would be killed.

I realize this is all a crazy amount of speculation. I am trying to process this and typing out a "theory" is a way to do that. I grieve for this family.