Josh

So if we remember back, the bowling alley was owned by a man named Ronald Senak, the father of Stephanie and the grandfather of Melissa Repass.

And from early in the investigation, onlookers believed the killings were not the result of a robbery, but were actually a violent message left for Ronald.

But why?

Because despite getting away with approximately $5,000, the assailants allegedly left behind a large undisclosed amount of money in the office safe.

This theory made it difficult for investigators to determine if this truly was a robbery gone wrong or something much darker.

Investigators were intrigued by another specific rumor that the bullying alley had ties to organized crime.

The rumor, though, varying in details depending on who you ask, always came down to about the same thing.

The owner, Ronald Sinek.

And possibly he had crossed paths with the wrong kind of people, which is why the gunman initially cornered his daughter and granddaughter.

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.