10ofRods
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MOO:
Getting away with the murder of someone close to you is becoming extremely difficult, to the point of it being almost impossible.
We leave trails that technology can pick up - from your cell phone pings to traffic/dash cams, not to mention emails, Internet searches and activity, etc.
You have to be perfect and incredibly lucky to not get caught, and all you need to do is make one mistake, get caught on a traffic camera in a place where you claimed not to be, leave a single fiber, whatever, for the police to get you.
And if you are close to a victim, you will be put under a microscope.
Good luck.
Aren't there 80,000 missing American adults?
Number of missing persons files in the U.S. by age and gender 2018 | Statista
Some of them are murdered. If you're a woman, the statistical probability is that you were murdered by someone you know. That is why people close to victims are (sometimes sadly) put under the microscope (and telescope, figuratively).
Let's not tiptoe around that stat. Women are less likely to be murdered than men, but when we are murdered, it's more likely to be a husband, SO or affair partner. Or a male stalker. I know you know that, but in the case of Barbara Thomas, many of us cannot help but consider this as a theory. Obviously, RT knows he's under suspicion. I feel terribly for him, if he's innocent, as it's a horrifying thing to have happen.
OTOH, if he thought she was in Vegas, why not try to organize at least a few missing person posters in Vegas? I feel he could have used his 5 minutes on InsideEdition to do that. He may not be mentally nimble enough for all this though. If he isn't, he needs to reach out to family and friends (and perhaps, forums like this one).