either you are reading the wrong report or they completely misrepresented whats already been reported.
it was 17 fucking degrees outside the overnight that they died. the 5th friend says he left at mindnight-ish.
the friends and relatives are coming up with some absolutely wild stories about him poising them and then dragging them outside and shit.
theres a damn good chance the final answer is going to be a combo of alcohol and a drug.
alcohol, and some sort of drug could easily have incopacitated them while they were fucking around outside and they pass out when its below 20 outside, and their slowed breathing cuts down on their ability to keep warm and they froze to death in his backyard.
dude who lived could very well have been on drugs as well, and passed out in his home, which kept him warm enough to not die. but it took him several days to wake up and respond to folks. and it wasnt until 2 days after the game that the bodies were discovered just laying in his backyard.
there are drugs that can keep you fucked up losing track of days and memory loss.
also, not that the cops are in any way hyper-trustworthy, but they havent seemed hyper concerned, even though its now a high profile case.
where the investigators have said almost from the beginning of the bodies discovery that there didnt seem to be any foul play visible, and not only is the the guy not under arrest, hes moved out of the house.
homicide detectives arent in the habit of just letting the hyper-obvious prime suspect in a triple homicide just walk around and leave his home.
unless they have a strong hunch that this was some sort of accident.
Yeah that might eventually lead to legal liability and maybe even a "lesser" version of a involuntary murder charge, but I have to guess the detectives have seen enough shit over the years to give them some pretty strong clues as to the cause.
its been like 8 years, but when that Travis Co Sheriff killed himself in an attempt to make it look like a robbery (and the cops shut down i-35 for 2 hours in the middle of morning rush hour to parade his body to the Travis County morge)....
I was the one who pointed out almost immediately that the cops kept saying that the cops kept saying there was NO threat to the general public..... despite the inital reports of two non-white teens who had just supposedly executed a uniformed Sheriff on his own lawn, that made ZERO sense...
UNLESS the cops knew damn well he had killed himself (which btw they DID), they knew right away and fucking went on with the fallen hero charade bullshit complete with all the pomp and circumstance of a "fallen" hero who died saving the community, until they announced the day AFTER his funeral a week later, that oh yeah, it kinda looks like Sgt looney purposely staged the scene...
this is kind of the same shit. the cops dont seem to think the homeowner is some sort of homicial clown