I just noticed in one of CrimeSolver's posts upthread that some document mentioned that DMH possibly had a "stepbrother".
Trying to figure out how a possible switcheroo between the brother/stepbrother identities might factor in ... when looking at the real pic of DMH, I don't think his nose matches up that well with RJM .. but RJM's nose certainly matches to the pic of DMH's mother.
Sillybilly the nose is similar in some of the aged composites that are slightly in profile I will find soon and post. In any case you can have a feature of your father or even an ancestor.
Thanks for linking to those new posts about the mother and her art. On another site a few years ago it is interesting that someone wrote that the killer (Howe) might be lurking on crimes sites then they wrote in capitals "ISN'T THAT RIGHT JAMES?"
Some type of "switcheroo" is possible it would explain is baiting of LE and Sharin's mother - if he knows that the DNA isn't going to match. One small but interesting point is that the guy I spoke to in Toronto in 83 (I thought Howe) wanted to take a woman I mentioned to him (and also me a separate offer) skating to a cabin up north the one that he said a previous woman "liked so much she never came back". Note Sharin lured from a skating rink. This guy in Idaho in refrigeration among other things Sharin found in fridge.
This is the first time he has said that the two detectives in the film are the two he saw in Boise. But Lawrie quit 10 days after finding Sharin's body he also attended an "unrelated" suicide the next day. Oldham it is possible he went down there. There is a report in a book by Max Haines that detectives went to Russia to work in a forestry camp where they thought Howe was working.
There is nothing in the Ridgen film's visuals of her Mom's art that would seem to suggest what she would want to do to Howe. Strange use of the word "remorse" as if Sharin's Mom should feel remorse for making Howe be sought by LE.
Yes the remarks about the mother sound....well almost dangerous. Note that on a previous post I said that "Howe" (if him) had said disparaging things about Sharin's mother so that fits.
Howe had a spider monkey and Idaho guy pontificated on the "monkey in the Rembrandt" theory. Just personally when he outlines the ostensible monkey I see a child bundled in an unnatural position (like say in a fridge).
Pics of Sharin: when I google Sharin Keenan four hits down today I get both the picture of Sharin released at the time (her father said she did not look quite like that though and thought it was the wrong pic to use) you can also see the picture of Sharin that suddenly appeared in the Ridgen video and that now has been switched to a different image for some reason.
SillyBilly if you could tell me whether you think Sharin looks quite a bit older more muscular (as if swimming every day) and FAR more healthy in the black and white photo than in the school colour pic (again see by googling Sharin Keenan and looking at the fourth result down. If you can answer then I spill my theory.
I believe her father said she had bangs when she disappeared but neither of the photos show her with bangs.
Hillsdon Smith did the autopsy just google his name and coroner to see his bizarre legacy in murder trials involving parents of children also the Christine Jessop case which he botched.
I wonder whether Ridgen is not trying to drop a few clues of his own in the film. Howe's first wife was probably Mennonite Dickhoff. Note in the Ridgenfilm the prominent shot of a garage with a prominent Mennonite name.
Just to add: obviously the point of the story about bounty hunters and rogue police officers and vengeful mothers would be that Howe is dead so there is no reason to look for him.