“The Abduction”

-Chronology of Events-

THEORY: The victims trustingly went with the killers to the primary crime scene where an accomplice was waiting and pretending to be a dead body. Once the victims were inside the abandoned shed, the perpetrators easily subdued them by force. The killers then left the primary crime scene to establish alibis, leaving the victims with an accomplice.

FACT: Statements to the police made by John Mark Byers on May 19th, 1993. Byers states: “...That was the abandoned house I checked, where...” Detective Ridge states: “Do you know Aaron’s last name?” Byers states: “No sir, but, I can tell you the house. Where I live, you got Wilson right here... then you got a corner house that’s got a brick fence around it, then you got another house right beside it. Well they lived in that second house. And I remembered it had a storage building out back. SO I RAN DOWN THERE and looked IN THAT STORAGE BUILDING thinking maybe THEY WERE hiding BACK THERE. BUT I COULD TELL HADN’T NOBODY WALKED THROUGH THERE AND THERE WASN’T NO PAPER. The storage room wasn’t much bigger than this room. AND IT WAS ALL CLEANED OUT...”

(Link to the actual police transcript)

Below is the Google Map location that Byers identifies above.

FACT: During their interview on May 19^th, 1993 with John Mark Byers, Detectives James Sudbury and Bryn Ridge NEVER follow up on the fact that John Mark Byers states that “there was no paper,” which is a disconnected and random statement in the context of a “search.”

FACT: Byers admits to the police that he was “searching” until the early morning hours of May 6^th, 1993.

NOTE: It is interesting that John Mark Byers mentions the fact that “there wasn’t no paper” and “it was all cleaned out” when speaking about an abandoned shed he searched at the location above. These words seem out of place considering the context of Byers’ conversation with the police. In these statements, John Mark Byers was “reliving” the night as he talked about it with the police.

THEORY: The killers would have been extremely worried about covering their tracks and cleaning the primary crime scene after so much blood had been spilled. A statement like “there was no paper” could have been stated as a “Freudian slip” on the part of the killer when thinking about that situation at a later date. The killer’s subconscious could have taken him back to the situation of needing to clean the spilled blood on the night of the murders. One of the first things that a person thinks about when they need to clean spilled liquid is paper. The real killers could have spent the majority of the late night/early morning covering their tracks.

SUGGESTIONS: Soil samples from the above location need to be taken and analyzed for possible evidence. According to a forensics scientist that we spoke with, DNA evidence is not only possible but is “LIKELY” to be there even 50 years after a murder where so much blood was spilled. Also, people involved in drugs and especially friends of Ryan Clark during the murders need to be questioned to see if they have ever purchased or know of anyone purchasing drugs from this location after the Hutchesons moved out shortly before the murders.

*******************

(Previous) (Next)

(Back Home)

*******************