They all fit the profile
Ralph Gieger, Timothy Kern, David Pauley, and Scott Davis all fit the profile of the perfect “applicants” Jack Beasley (the supposed owner of the 300-acre farm) was looking for: men in their late 40s to early 50s, desperate for work, and either never married or divorced. Men who didn’t mind going away and living in a place where they could be isolated from everyone else.