Carol Stine
Some assumptions regarding the Carol/Joe/Paul Stine and Vallejo connection:
If Z indeed had attacked Carol Stine, this might've been the connection between Paul Stine and Vallejo.
Obviously someone had scratched Joe Stine into his face. I guess, if not Paul by himself (which would make Joe being Z), that a girl scratched him when she was obviously angry about something Joe had done or had tried to do.
Did Joe Stine try to figure out who had killed Darlene Ferrin three months earlier? Or was he even accused for the murder of Darlene, therefore got scratched into his face?
A killer could possibly have erroneously killed Paul instead of Joe..but then - why the additional attack on Carol? There is something strange in here..if Carol had scratched Joe by herself, without any furthergoing reason, she might have been hiding the identity of Darlene's killer even by herself.
I still see Joe as a prime suspect. Scratches in his face, car mechanic (was he?), reddish-blond clean-cut hair, same height, suspicious behaviour after his brother's dead. And if not Joe, he or Carol (or the woman who had scratched his face) presumably know more about Paul and Darlene than they have ever told.
Some gossip, I know, but there's definitely something wrong here.
QT
If Z indeed had attacked Carol Stine, this might've been the connection between Paul Stine and Vallejo.
Obviously someone had scratched Joe Stine into his face. I guess, if not Paul by himself (which would make Joe being Z), that a girl scratched him when she was obviously angry about something Joe had done or had tried to do.
Did Joe Stine try to figure out who had killed Darlene Ferrin three months earlier? Or was he even accused for the murder of Darlene, therefore got scratched into his face?
A killer could possibly have erroneously killed Paul instead of Joe..but then - why the additional attack on Carol? There is something strange in here..if Carol had scratched Joe by herself, without any furthergoing reason, she might have been hiding the identity of Darlene's killer even by herself.
I still see Joe as a prime suspect. Scratches in his face, car mechanic (was he?), reddish-blond clean-cut hair, same height, suspicious behaviour after his brother's dead. And if not Joe, he or Carol (or the woman who had scratched his face) presumably know more about Paul and Darlene than they have ever told.
Some gossip, I know, but there's definitely something wrong here.
QT