If the snake fell through the ceiling how did the kids not wake up screaming? Even if it grabbed both kids and they were being strangled they didnt scream at all? My sister has given everyone a heart attack waking me up in the middle of the nite for the stupidest crap. If she can wake everyone up screaming because she can't find her stuffed animal Buttons, i think she'd be just fine waking us up over the killer snake. Shes 5, same age as the boys.
I think this is a cover up for a double homicide as robin said. He had the perfect scape goat, use the snake that lived right down stairs. They REALLY better investigate this thoroughly and not just automatically write it off. They need to check the whole ventilation system bc if the dust isn't disturbed all the way through it then that kills that theory of how the snake got there. Also, the snake didn't eat them, just killed both? That's not how a snake works. It would wrapped one and killed him and eat him, then gone for the second. I just don't believe any of it.