Jonathan Hirsch

have to endure this kind of uncertainty during a homicide investigation because detectives can only tell the families so much.

But then if there are gaps in what appear to be the way that the investigation is being pushed forward,

Like, the stakes couldn't be higher for a family.

Like, wouldn't they want to actually get in the mix there and try to, you know, try to find answers?

I can understand how frustrating that must have been.

Right.

Right, exactly.

They're starting to look into that piece of it.

And shortly afterward, they do get a tip, the police do, from a former roommate of Bart, Adam Hipp.

He walks into the police station and reports that Bart had tried to recruit him to help kill his family.

Yep, were there two years ago.

So police detectives are definitely having some of their initial thoughts confirmed here about Bart's involvement in the shootings.

He claimed that he'd briefly roomed with Bart at school and that Bart had made mention of having his family murdered all the way back in 2001.

The motive?

I mean, the motive was that he expected to inherit a significant amount of money, roughly a million dollars.

So Hipp states that Bart even offered him a cut of the money, you know, like this was a deal that they'd put together.

He says, you know, I didn't know.

I'm not proud of it, but for the simple fact that I was kind of interested to see how far he would take it.

I mean, that's a dangerous game of chicken you're playing there, my friend.

But certainly you can imagine somebody approaches you with information like that.