Respectfully,
What evidence is there to rule out the top three options? What evidence is there to suggest that murder is the case?
I agree that the focus of (an apparently capable) LE leads us in one “laser focused” direction; a direction that most of the commenters on this thread already put BM in prison for life.
But we know nothing, because no evidence has been released to the public.
I don’t know why, but I think there is more to this case than a “controlling” husband killing his wife of 30 years over a suggested divorce.
I also don’t put any merit in anyone’s analyzation of his 27sec video. Maybe that’s a result of the Shane Carey social media criticism.
Anyway, I don’t speak up often but I’m surprised on the lack of differing opinions on this thread. Until we get any real evidence, it might be worth exploring.
We don't know what the evidence is for ruling out voluntarily missing, animal attack or wilderness misadventure (including heart attack, etc). Or self-harm.
However, LE is not treating this case (even after more than 2 weeks) as any of these. I assume LE knows way more than we do.
People who go voluntarily missing do not usually do so via bicycle, abandoning said bike within a few miles from home. What possible scenario can you think of that would allow for someone to run away from home, without many of their possessions, presumably wearing clothing suitable for bike-riding? This would mean that Suzanne must have intended to meet someone (or hitchhike?) in order to make her getaway - from her entire family, including two children. Has this ever happened in the annals of true crime? Perhaps we should also consider cryptids in the mountains nearby, as it would be about as likely.
Animal attack as a theory appealed to me (since mountain lion attacks actually do occur, as opposed to women running away by bicycle and almost immediately abandoning their bike). However, LE has access to dogs, trail cams, etc., and thinks that didn't happen. Maybe it did, though. Suzanne fits the profile of certain mountain lion attacks (a man slightly larger than she is was attacked on his bicycle here in California a few years back - lions like prey that's moving). But for some reason, LE actually went on record saying they did not believe this happened (so I think they know something about what did happen, that we don't know).
If she wandered outside the rather large search area centered around her bicycle, with no intention of self-harm, but instead trying to get home after an accident or her bike breaking down, then she must have been extremely disoriented, because all she had to do was turn around and retrace her steps. Did she try to hitchhike and get kidnapped? LE doesn't seem to think this happened, either. I think they have evidence to the contrary.
Could Suzanne have staged a suicide to look like a not-suicide? If so, where is she? Is there a weapon missing from the house? LE apparently doesn't think so. There aren't a lot of steep cliffs nearby - but there are ravines (risky to throw oneself into one, as death is far from certain). Did she have potentially lethal prescriptions on hand that are missing from the house? LE doesn't think so. Did she throw herself (weighted) into a body of water? There's a dam downstream on the South Arkansas, IIRC, so her body would be trapped there unless she threw herself into a pond/reservoir (neither of those are large bodies of water - they've been searched; unless she took weights with her, she'd have surfaced by now).
I sure do hope that this story doesn't become an enduring mystery. And I don't think it will. I think LE has reasons to suspect foul play, and so do CBI and the FBI. They are experts in crime and their actions speak to this being a crime, but not kidnapping.
Since husbands killed their wives during separations/divorces with fair regularity, why do you think it's impossible in this case? When husbands do kill their wives, it's not uncommon for it to happen during separation or divorce. It's more common than kidnapping or mountain lion attacks, so I'm curious why you think it's such a long shot in this case.
Have you read all of the threads? Because several of us have discussed mountain lion, kidnapping, self-harm. wilderness accident - pretty much beat those things into the ground (that's sort of my specialty here on WS!)
Did you want to discuss any of those things again?
