According to the timeline, this is after Mel's dad came looking for her, after The Pastor Mr. N is killed, after he calls his family with the strange "I love yous", after the police do a welfare check. In fact, it is one hour after the cop was at the house inquiring about Mel's whereabouts and Sam tells him they should be back from the movies around 1 a.m. - well it was about 1 a.m. when he called the police claiming he heard noises in the basement.
Now one theory from the Farmville grapevine by way of our local Peacegurl is that the welfare check was done by a single cop - (for those of you catching up, he is tall and skinny and not youthful and we've been calling him skinny cop) and that - AND THIS IS LOCAL RUMOR ONLY - when Sam called about things going bump in the night, he asked for the same skinny cop, but that cop was out on another call and they sent two officers instead. It was told through the Farmville vine that skinny cop himself believed that he had dodged a bullet; he felt Sam called and asked for him basically targeting him as a next victim.
So, did Sam really get scared and hear noises? Was he on a killing spree and decided that after the ladies and a pastor he should target skinny cop? Was it a lame attempt to set up an intruder story - the intruder who came back and killed everyone except Sam after the women came back from the movies? Did he want to get caught?
I'm just trying to figure out why he would call the police and let them in the house with 3 decaying bodies and one recently murdered, a den full of evidence - maybe even blood in the kitchen, who knows, and Mel's parents hot on their daughter's trail - it was risky don't you think?
I somehow lean toward targeting skinny cop as a next victim. He'd already called and said his good-byes kind of, to his family and I ponder that he may have wanted to really be infamous and go for the cop. After all, his horrocore homies tend to worship mass murderers.
Your theories?