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Always loved the original poster but was studying it earlier and spotted something I hadn't before. A face hidden in Nancy's hair.

Bear in mind this is a number of years after Halloween hid a face in their poster, so it could be a thing.

So am I reading too much into it or is it a hidden Easter egg?

Time span? A number of years. I'd imagine the OP is right, maybe months or even years between the first few, then getting more frequent as serial killers usually do. From Marge's "It drove us crazy..." the later ones were definitely linked by parents etc. so must have been tighter.

As for the actual mob, this was the era where men were alphas and women were typically homebodies. We know Glen's dad was involved but there's no way for example his mum would be, I'd imagine she was possibly oblivious to the plan. Someone would have had to be at home looking after the kids too. Tina's dad was AWOL so he wouldn't be part of it. I'd imagine a very small tight knit group of maybe 5 or 6 trusted people acting for the good of the town, with maybe a couple of cops taking the lead. I'm inclined to think it was a 'task force' specially convened by Sgt Thompson, who would obviously come into contact with all the victims parents and know Glen's dad by living in close proximity

Re: torching him, I guess that's primarily a plot device to achieve the required look, but let's explain it away as the fire chief being involved and knowing what would take hold, and also being able to block the force attending. Maybe Fred was somewhere in the building but they couldn't find him or thought he was too dangerous on home turf, so they used what was lying around to take the whole place down with him in it.

Would assume they tailed him after the trial, and maybe that's the first they knew of the boiler room, the search warrant was more likely for a home address. Same night as the court case fell for me.  There were huge problems with search warrants back then, often taking weeks to process, so maybe they simply bypassed it, but it could have been rushed through either pre or post  search and that makes signing it in the wrong place more likely. To my knowledge it's courts and DAs who sign them off.

"The burned him in his boiler room and they hid the remains. " What if they burned him in a furnace, and then hid the remains. All anyone would see then was a smoking chimney.

Why did they choose to hide the bones in the middle of a junkyard? To hide any trace of him having been killed, to make people just assume he left town. Makes me wonder though how not accounting for his death helped, parents would surely still think he could be at large. If the car was to be cushed it would have made sense, but not just to be left there, welded shut or not..

Love the OPs notion Thompson was a security guard for the junkyard