10ofRods
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Possibly. At the moment, I am in the camp that this was a planned murder - not a spontaneous rage killing.
I didn't say it was spontaneous. I believe this was planned, and born out of rage, which endured. The rage fueled the plans.
Keep in mind that I am suggesting a very dark scenario, indeed, what with tranquilizer darts, and moving her body off property before she died.
I also believe that after Barry disposed of Suzanne, he went back to PP and sat down at her computer and read as much as he could of her messages to JL. JL was responsible for the purchase of the bike - JL is the inspiration for her becoming a bicyclist (IMO). Barry probably thought it was...him. He already knew about JL and he was already furious, but he now realizes that the bike and other aspects of her lifestyle - maybe even her choice of biking clothing - was related to JL, not to him.
He was still working out the staging in his mind, but the fact that he forgot to turn off his phone when he takes the bike down to its resting spot tells me that he was not thinking straight (angry, tired, blown gaskets). He doesn't have much time - he needs to get on the road to Broomfield, for whatever reason. He's probably going nuts with regret, rage, fear, self-hatred, suicidality and whatever else goes along with this kind of crime - but he can't be knocked down, he's tough.
And now he's in jail for something he did, planned to do, and couldn't keep himself from doing.
IMO.