Alcohol may have been a factor...
Hey...
Anyone seen vesta today?
Dutch

Scenerio here,
The woman answers a knock on the door and a man tells her he is hungry. She goes back to the kitchen and loads up a plate of food for him.
This Dude wants money not food and is enraged when she comes out with food.
He belts her in the head, rapes her and she dies from the knock on the head.
The dude runs when he realises the woman is dead and heads for BUBBAS house, his cousin and a local law enforcement officer in a neighboring town.
I could believe the alcohol part if it had not been for the plate of food and her clothing being removed.
To believe the police, this woman takes a plate of food to the porch to eat herself, she is drunk and falls off the porch knocking herself out. She awakes and removes her pants and panties then rolls in the mud and dies.
I hear a banjo playing in the background here and Burt Reynolds slinking about her back yard.