Couple killed while hiking with kids

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Anonymous wrote:One word: Arkansas. Yuck.

Tell me you've never been to Arkansas without telling me....

Not the PP but I second the yuck. It is a very pretty state but filled with really not great people. The state motto is Thank God for Mississippi. Because if it wasn’t for Mississippi, they’d be last in everything. Sure there are pockets of normal people there but it is veeerry backwards.

Have you actually been there? It's not even that "pretty compared to say parts of WV, Idaho, or Colorado. It's just a horrible, trashy maga state.

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Western AR is nothing special, it's just that it's nice compared to the Delta, which is what most people picture when they picture AR.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Theory: they were in witness protection and had just been moved to Arkansas.

Could also be something like a business deal gone wrong or trying to avoid a family/custody issue. It might be random, but I think most people would take their kids and drive away if their spouse had just been attacked by a random person, rather than leaving two kids too young to drive and going back to fight an unknown attacker.

Did the woman know her husband was attacked before she took her young daughters to the car? If she didn't know, how would she think to "drive away"? She returned to where her husband was after her kids were in car.

I think the most likely thing is there was some kind of threatening engagement enough to remove the kids but she probably assumed it was something along the lines of a bar fight and not a double murder, in which case it would make sense to bring the girls to safety and go check out your husband vs speed away leaving him to fend for himself.

+1. This is logical and would also explain why the girls were left safe and uninjured.

[Anonymous]

How do we know kids were taken to car? Maybe they just ran .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do we know kids were taken to car? Maybe they just ran .

It's in the Newsweek article and that cited the police statement. The kids are old enough that they could probably tell the police certain things.

[Anonymous]

Apologies to my husband, but I can’t imagine under what circumstance I’d witness this and then leave my children in the car alone and go back for him. This does seem like a big clue.

[Anonymous]

Description of the suspect sounds like either drug related (possible cartel grow watcher) or was a deliberately planned confrontation.

Suspect was wearing really odd clothing, more like a homeless person, but had a vehicle and their license plate covered according to video surveillance police stated. Who knows how competent the police are and may have mis-ID'd the suspects vehicle, but that's a definite clue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apologies to my husband, but I can’t imagine under what circumstance I’d witness this and then leave my children in the car alone and go back for him. This does seem like a big clue.

If she had stayed in the car with the girls, maybe her kids would not be orphans now. Who knows? So sad.

[Anonymous]

I must say, they were quite an "unusual" looking couple. Was one of them SN?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apologies to my husband, but I can’t imagine under what circumstance I’d witness this and then leave my children in the car alone and go back for him. This does seem like a big clue.

We don't know what "this" is. As far as we know as of now "this" was an argument over a dropped dog poop bag on the ground. I highly doubt she watched him being killed and went back. The most logical explanation is the situation escalated between when she left to bring the girls to the car and returned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Description of the suspect sounds like either drug related (possible cartel grow watcher) or was a deliberately planned confrontation.

Suspect was wearing really odd clothing, more like a homeless person, but had a vehicle and their license plate covered according to video surveillance police stated. Who knows how competent the police are and may have mis-ID'd the suspects vehicle, but that's a definite clue.

I don't think the cartels do outdoor growing in AR. Especially on state land where families hike.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Description of the suspect sounds like either drug related (possible cartel grow watcher) or was a deliberately planned confrontation.

Suspect was wearing really odd clothing, more like a homeless person, but had a vehicle and their license plate covered according to video surveillance police stated. Who knows how competent the police are and may have mis-ID'd the suspects vehicle, but that's a definite clue.

I don't think the cartels do outdoor growing in AR. Especially on state land where families hike.

Not sure if you are trolling, or just clueless about the topic.

[Anonymous]

Obviously the sparse details had to come from the two girls, ages 7 and 9. They should be able to articulate whether Mom and Dad knew this person, what happened during the initial encounter, what transpired before Mom shuttled them to the car. We are not getting the details in these articles.

[Anonymous]

Tragic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Description of the suspect sounds like either drug related (possible cartel grow watcher) or was a deliberately planned confrontation.

Suspect was wearing really odd clothing, more like a homeless person, but had a vehicle and their license plate covered according to video surveillance police stated. Who knows how competent the police are and may have mis-ID'd the suspects vehicle, but that's a definite clue.

What is it with your fixation on “cartel grows”? I don’t know anything about current best practices for transnational criminal enterprises but I am fairly certain that a double homicide is not the best way to keep a low profile.

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Anonymous wrote:One word: Arkansas. Yuck.

The moved to Arkansas from California, which is unusual -- maybe they are natives?

From the photos, it almost looked like the wife was a POC? A mixed race couple in the current times might attract attention in Arkansas?

LOL, you need to get out more.

NP here — to be fair to poster who mentioned mixed race couple issue, my DH almost took a job with Walmart in Arkansas and a good friend (POC) who lived there warned us that our mixed race marriage would be looked upon as highly peculiar and likely attract a lot of negative attention, especially with the fact that we were a WOC + white man. I remember being so surprised to hear that, since these types of couples are a dime a dozen on both the East and West coasts.