Wow you all are on a roll this morning! I have been thinking all along that Jennifer’s murder was about revenge and getting full custody of the children and their trust funds. Now after reading some of these posts this morning my mind is open to another possibility. Were FD & MT planning to flee the country immediately with the children?! Were their bags packed and FD thought he would simply be able to get the children without supervision in the initial chaos & confusion during the search for Jennifer?
Did he go to JD’s mother’s apartment that night to see the kids because he was planning to suggest that it would be the best thing for them if he just went ahead and took them home with him that night? Their mother is missing...they need their father right now etc. JD’s mom not letting him in and calling the police might have ruined their initial escape plan. Is that why FD was texting the nanny and telling her not to be late in bringing the children in the morning? Was the escape plan on hold until they got there? I’m not clear what happened that day or if a supervisor or LE came to the house or if the nanny was instructed not to take the children to FD’s house. Was LE already suspecting FD at this point? Did FD & MT miss their window of opportunity to get away? I’m not sure when LE took FD’s phone which led to the pings on Albany Avenue and the trash bags etc. but it was pretty quick considering they recovered some of the bags. FD really screwed up handing over his cell phone!
Did LE find evidence that FD had actually completed the Greek passport applications for the children and had received their passports? And that airline tickets were purchased or a private plane was on standby...did LE discover evidence of a bank account in Greece in FD’s name or in another country in MT’s name...remember the question asking MT if she transferred any of FD’s assets into her name?! Maybe they were planning to take off right after the deed was done and that’s why they were so careless with disposing of the evidence. If they were caught on video in Hartford FD thought they would be long gone by the time LE figured that out and the garbage would be long gone too. Did FD drain the line of credit and not pay the huge mortgages because he was putting all of that money into a secret overseas account? I didn’t know FD rented a Yukon that seats 8 people either...why would he need that? Did FD quickly realize their original plan was not going to succeed and they were scrambling to come up with a Plan B? I wonder if there were any discussions between FD & MT about fleeing the country and leaving the children behind?
If FD really loved MT when he realized he couldn’t get away wouldn’t he have told her to leave the country? I don’t think he did truly love MT, I think he liked her and admired her athletic skills, and using her was not unpleasant for him. But it’s hard to believe he had long term plans of combining their families and having a future life together in another country. Was he using her to get his assets situated overseas and he was planning to break up with her later? Afterall if he involved her in the planning and/or coverup of JD’s murder then he wouldn’t have to worry about her turning him in.
But this speculation they were going to flee the country with the children leads me to question if FD took the children out of the country then how would he gain access to their trust funds? Maybe it wasn’t about getting his hands on that money at all because he already had enough set aside. Could it just have been about getting the children and starting over? Did FD actually love his children even if he was a sociopath? Are they capable of real love? Maybe if the children are part of him. Could he rationalize loving his children while hurting them by taking away their mother? It isn’t hard to believe he was just that selfish. But if it wasn’t about money or revenge then why kill JD at all? There would have been much easier ways to get kidnap the children. They could have subdued the supervisor during a visit and took off. Or maybe FD didn’t even plan to kill JD that morning. What if he was just going to abduct her, zip tie her and hide her somewhere to get her out of the way so when she didn’t pick the kids up from school they would call him and he could pick them up by himself and take off. But what if JD fought him too hard and he ended up killing her and everything went sideways from there? If JD didn’t pick up the children who would the school have called? FD? No time to arrange for a supervised visit then if the school was about to close. Would they have called JD’s mother? I wonder who was listed as the emergency contact? Surely not the nanny. It would make sense that it would be their father unless JD had changed it. But it sounds like the nanny had already planned to pick up the children after school that day because JD was supposed to meet them in NYC later that afternoon. Did FD not know about this? JD didn’t have to tell FD her day to day plans unless it involved his time with their kids. Did the nanny always pick up the kids after school or did JD usually drop them off AND pick them up and different arrangements were made that day due to JD’s appointment in the city?
My mind is going in two different directions right now because I still think the most likely reason JD was murdered was FD’s sick revenge fantasy and getting his hands on the children's trust fund money. But some things I have read this morning have opened my mind to the possibility that FD & MT might have been planning to flee the country with the children right after the murder. FD was almost broke and had large bills coming due. And didn’t he owe Jennifer’s mother 2.5 million dollars?! He had to know she would fight him re the custody of the children and their trusts. He couldn’t collect any life insurance for JD (if he was still a beneficiary) while she was still missing and without a body. It could take years until she was declared deceased. How was he planning to live in the meantime? It could take many years and many thousands of dollars he didn’t have for the legal fees before he could ever reap any benefits. Plus the investigation would be ongoing and there might be a possibility of Jennifer’s remains being found. Could he carry on living his life there with all of this hanging over his head - and the possibility of KM or MT turning on him? And if he was a suspect his reputation would be ruined and his business was already failing anyway. It’s a ton of risk for a reward that might never come. It almost makes more sense if they were planning to flee. MOO
Edit: I didn’t realize this was so long. Guess I was on a roll too sorry!
