Let's see...
the bit about paper plates and soda got started in thread 1. Later someone posted they could verify there was a receipt but not what was on it. 2 pages from the end of thread 1, donuts have not yet been mentioned.
The new status on syrup of ipecac is that it is no longer recommended, it is discouraged.
I am not aware of any video about vomit and vodka, I did read it on the ROTW forum. I too initially thought of it in reference to dogs. I still do but am not too stubborn to change my mind.
Z, I visited Germany and never ordered pancakes...and from your descrip, I would really not like them at all. But for 20 +/- I lived in a small town of German immigrants and my neighbor made those crepe like pancakes. I have even eaten them as crepes, with cream cheese and blueberry pie filling and rolled. yumminess.
Germany SPOILED me. I had not had much of a sweet tooth, but the bakeries did me in...for life. Not all sugary like here, but so rich and delicious with butter and good chocolate and pastry that is an art.
Anyway, I think there was a loose version of "don't ask, don't tell". I have been trying for days to come up with the words for it to make sense. I don't think JeM went home and said I killed Bob, or Bob is dead. I think it was implied in a message that "no worries, our son is safe, ( something to convey that ARH had dodged the bullet), everything is going to be all right. But when I came back from HD, your Dad wasn't there and he didn't come back. I don't know where he went. (insert one of the excuses used to explain his disappearance here)....but he has been very independent and told us all to stay out of his business and after the argument last night, I don't want to bother him and make him mad at us again. (also implied that if we make him mad, he might reduce what we are willed ultimately in the estate..or even said bluntly)...JuM would have asked questions..however he answered those it was enough ( and probably combined with his tone, mood, mannerisms & all etc) that JuM concluded what JeM had done to "take care of things" or strongly suspected it. It must have all been a very surreal conversation.
Maybe JeM went to wash his truck..or threw away his clothes or etc. Maybe he was snippy and acted bothered. and upset.
How do you all see that part going down?
I am just trying to picture how this part may have happened.
Some think JuM orchestrated it..but I think JeM took things in his own hands to fix things for his son..and JuM would certainly effect that motive in her hysterical reaction and worry that ARH was going to be found out and prosecuted.
Most have all ready concluded that the others knew after the fact...I am just trying to imagine things thro one at a time.
She phones her sisters and feeds them the sales speech (leaving ARH out of it)...that Bob wasn't there when JeM got back, but was uncomfortable intruding on Bob esp after the night before...and threw out some phony possibilities of where he might be. And, in my mind would say she was scared something may have happened to him.
Lots of phone calls between them follow.
And remember, they are still really mad at dad from that meeting.
So, the bit about he doesn't want us to bother him makes a good excuse for not going hunting for him right away, personally. A part of them probably believes it, sitting right beside that part of their brain that has suspicions
I know this is permanently unknowable but would like to hear what others hypothesize.
T.
