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And as the rumor goes, Amy, Ida, Steve, and his young daughters were all collateral damage, and the only intended victims were Stephanie and Melissa.
Ronald's brother Steve claimed that Ron had previously lived inside the bowling alley and was met by multiple strangers in the months before the shooting.
Stephen claimed that Ronald was $1.5 million in debt, and he was in so much debt that he had to reopen the bowling alley only a week after the shooting, which police and everybody else in the community found very suspicious.
When police began questioning Ronald in the original investigation, he became uncooperative.
Ronald claimed that the bowling alley had been robbed multiple times since the opening in 1984, and that money was the sole motive.
He also claimed that he had gone to the police station every day for updates.
Investigators claimed that this was untrue and they had to track him down whenever they wanted to speak with him.
Either way, investigators never uncovered any proof that Ron was connected to the shooting.
Investigators told reporters, we have investigated all of those angles at the time.
Thousands and thousands of man hours have gone into trying to prove those theories, but we weren't able to prove anything.
We put Ronald Sinek under a microscope and we couldn't find anything.
And to date, all we know for sure, it was a robbery homicide.
After looking into Ronald Cenac, investigators began to look at another potential connection to the crime, the man's youngest son, RJ.
RJ Cenac tended the bar at the bowling alley, and several tips claimed that RJ was involved in a substantial amount of drug activity.
The theory was that RJ was potentially buying or selling cocaine at work.
Then the gunman found out about this and tried to intercept the drugs.
Police looked into the claims and discovered that RJ did in fact have an active cocaine addiction, but they said there was nothing there that could truly link him to the shooting.
RJ's name was cleared at the time and a few years later in 1997, he passed away from a drug overdose at the age of 36.
One of the most promising tips that police received early in the investigation came from a woman named Irma Tejerina.
Irma called the police to let them know she believed the men who committed the crime had been temporarily staying in her home after meeting them at a nearby bar.