It would be interesting to know what sort of relationship these various adults had with the children; did the father or store owner have any sort of reason to want the boys dead? Also would it be too far out there that one of them unleashed the snake in the room with the boys, and locked the door with them in it? I know committing murder using a snake sounds nonsensical, but so does this story in the first place. But you'd probably get away with the crime this way rather than through their own hands.
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