In regard to MB, I haven't really known what to think. I thought I had read at the time, that MB was out of town/not home during the time when the truck showed up at her residence, and during the time after that, and prior to DM's arrest (I guess there was just a couple of days in there, correct?). A neighbour had said she had hadn't been seen since.... I forget when..
Now we find out she was THERE, and even saw DM on the night he delivered the trailer to her home. So she knew full well that it was there, no question about that... and we also know that she and CN went to fetch DM's dog, Pedo, on, I believe it was May 11th? We know that MS knew about DM's arrest on the evening of May 10th, so we can only assume that MB also knew her son had been arrested.. for what? The theft of a truck, and forcible confinement? Wow, and here she had this big mother trailer's 'bum stuck in her warren', and apparently did not report it to LE? Nothing to say she knew anything about a 'murder', but certainly doesn't sound like she had any intention of coming forward to assist police.
It did not surprise me that MB was collecting a salary of whatever amount each month from the Millard business. It would not surprise me if that was already in effect before WM died. When the couple split up, MB would have been entitled to part of his wealth, his properties, and his business(es). I never got the impression that their split-up was fraught with acrimonious feelings. Moo.
Once DM was arrested, it seemed that MB was in there RIGHT AWAY to take care of business in a manner that made perfect sense at the time, now that we know how shaky the financial affairs of DM and MA were. I am left with the impression that she likely tried to counsel him on how best to deal with these things, but he likely wouldn't listen, went along doing his own thing, nevermind what anyone else with perhaps more intelligence and business sense may have thought. (The accounting firm used by WM for years, 'let DM down', I wonder why, can we guess?). Suddenly she seemed to have NO problem leasing out hangar space, selling the properties which must have NEEDED to be sold to pay off debts, dealing with getting out of a 50 year lease, selling the hangar that was sucking them dry, cutting their losses, trying to support her son when he is in trouble (unwarranted of course, it was as if they had said he flew to the moon), negotiating legal fees and strategies, etc.
She sounds like one smart lady to me, albeit one that seemed to have the wool pulled over her eyes by her only (adult) child. She cut ties with LW2, who according to the impression of texts I saw yesterday, hadn't handled the condo deal properly (according to DM). She made good on DM's various commitments to others such as SS and LW2.. to me, MB was living in fantasy land, thinking her son was highly intelligent, organized, had great ideas and plans, and perhaps was so smitten with her child that she believed everything DM said to her. He probably told her that the trailer was in her driveway with the truck inside because he purchased it and didn't realize it was 'hot'. Still it doesn't look good on her at all that she failed to bring it to LE's attention. At the same time, it's difficult to judge her when we don't know what the circumstances were for *her* at that time, as far as what she believed to be true.
MOO
