Doubtful

After telling the authorities what happened to him and how he ended up at the Shockling’s, the sheriff didn’t buy his story. But after verifying that the truck and trailer that Scott left at the parking lot of the Food Center Emporium was really his, Hannum realized that he was telling the truth all along.

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.