The second story doesn't exactly sound like your typical home invasion either. Did you catch this part?
Phillips is a soldier stationed at Ft. Knox and is married to the daughter of Toby Knott. Materials used in the manufacturing of meth were removed from the trunk of the Cobalt by Wemes and thrown in the field prior to him ramming the side of the mobile home. Those materials were removed by a KSP Drug Task Force Officer and properly disposed.
That was the car of the woman being pursued, kinda sounds like she and the dead man may have been in the drug business. That is not at all clear but it does seem there was a drug connection there of some sort. Maybe Raylan Givens can sort it out.