Step One: What Do We Really Know?

Well common sense tells me that the 3 boys did not sleep through the murders. If I woke up in my friends house and my step dad was fighting and killing people, I like to think I'd wake up the other 2 boys (whose family was being attacked) and tell them. So if Justin was awake enough to know something was going on then I'm pretty sure Ricky was too. Either they don't know who was in the house or they regret not telling what they knew 38 years ago. If it was Marty what holds them back from telling it - after all that's what most everyone is begging to hear.

Justin has kept everyone on the edge of their seats for years so I'd have a hard time believing him now. Gary Wingate did say on the documentary that he thought it had to do with the mother but what was he basing that off of? He wasn't even sure of the reason Dana was going to be moved to another receiving home (he said you'd have to ask the Dorrisses). Either he's never asked (because it's to difficult to deal with) or he's never been told much about the murders.

My opinion is Sue walked into the living room and started screaming after seeing whatever was going on (and she fought with someone because she had defensive wounds) and out of shear panic the killer(s) gagged her until they were sure she'd not make anymore noise. Regardless of how many times Justin has told that the boys were fighting, or how many times Dmac has said the boys were defending Sue - the ME said the boys had no defensive wounds. That leads me to believe they did not fight with anyone.