The more I read and think in it it makes me wonder if it was all about the 'fame ' of it. More so than the not having the rent. If they were actually filming themselves days before the murder planning it and his sick desire to be published...
Were they hoping that a book deal would lead to a movie and becoming 'notorious' . Seems all the rage these days to get your 15 min at any cost. When you have minds as sick as theirs, IMO, that led them to one thought only on how to do it, murder. Poor Loretta was just the convienient target.
Another reason I think this is I really don't buy the guilty plea for this reason ..."He did not want to have the Saunders family go through the very gruelling process of a public trial with all of that evidence coming out." Except for the last bit. He was concerned about the evidence coming out. Evidence that anyone sitting in the courtroom could use to write their own book. Did he realize his statement on how he killed her would come out anyway I wonder ? I think he wanted the only ppl with all the details to be himself and VH.