THIS IS THE MOST LIKELY WAY THE CRIME WENT DOWN

Death by strangulation is a violent personal crime brought on by anger. Teresa Hodges is the lynchpin of this crime. The person killing her was so angry at her he further mutilated her body by setting her on fire. The other three victims were shot in the front of the head at close range. If the killer had been around the children and had interacted with them to become familiar and a friend they would have shot them somewhere where they would not have to look at their faces as they were being executed. Earl Bramblett did not kill these people. Bramblett loved Teresa and the children and was only angry at Blaine because Blaine treated them with so little regard to their happiness and welfare. Not nearly angry enough to kill even Blaine. Blaine Hodges had been out drinking that Saturday night and they brought him home drunk and helped put him to bed. Possibly waking the children as they did. Downstairs, the killer got to making out with Teresa and for some reason she got angry and tried running up the stairs and was caught by the hair and pulled back down the staircase, a chunk of her hair was left on the stairs. The killer wrapped an extension cord around her neck and strangled her to death. He was so angry he got everything he could find out of the storage building  he thought was combustable and poured it all on Teresa. But first went upstairs and killed the two children, then went into Blaine's bedroom and closed the window, he had to move the fan blowing cooler air into the bedroom, and proceeded to kill him with the one bullet he had left in the five shot 22 Magnum. The killer didn't notice the piece of gun in the bedroom because it was under the dresser. This was the gun the prosecution alleged killed the Hodges. It was not! The killer came down the stairs reloading the gun and dropped a shell casing on the stairway, looked for it but couldn't find it in the dim light. He proceeded to light up the dead body of Teresa Hodges lying on the couch and left. Possibly walking home or to a relative's home. If Barry Keesee or any other of the Keystone Kops had the slightest idea of how to conduct an investigation this would have been the first senario out of the gate. Instead, it was easier to pick Earl Bramblett and make up evidence and get people to lie so Bramblett would pay for the two missing girls from back in the seventies. He had nothing to do with their missing either but he was the easiest to investigate, so if there was a crime there, the police didn't have sense, experience, will to look for it.