re: OT- Lake Oconee Murders

there might have been a get away driver, but being from that area and the time frame this happened in, I do know that the cell reception is shite in this particular area, so the only way for communication would be with a walkie talkie or something. Problem with a W/T is that there is a chance that the chatter could be picked up from people nearby. Reynolds has two marinas relatively close and we used walkie talkies to communicate with the marina store about launch times for boats that things like that. So that is two potential areas where people could hear things that they weren't supposed to and not to mention all of the course maintenance people used walkie talkies as well. So whoever drove the boat probably stayed there.

A boat parked at a dock isn't going to arouse that much suspicion that time of the year because it is the start of the summer boating season and wouldn't look out of place.

There were two or more people at the house committing the crime at all times and probably moved the wife under the cover of darkness to keep boat traffic to and from as at a minimum. People will pay attention to the sound of a boat at night on the lake and prying eyes would be there undoing. The dock had a lift and wouldn't take much to raise the boat and no one would bat an eye.

ETA: plus it said the one lot besides them was unoccupied and the other house, the owner was in Turkey and the housesitter did not notice anything out of the ordinary, so the housesitter would probably have zero idea if they couple had a boat or not so it wouldn't raise any red flags.