Yes. This is going to sound like JW-trashing, so those of delicate temperament should skip to the next post.
Earlier, someone said "This 'kid' has lost a lot of ground in his life because of this nightmare." I think he was losing ground before this nightmare. He was fired from a job that provided him opportunities to talk to the press, supported his racing aspirations financially and otherwise, allowed him to start a high school racing program that had been one of his dreams since high school (even though he tried racing for the first time when he was 18, after "one too many concussions forced Wallace to leave behind the gridiron as a member of the football team at Annapolis High"). In March 2014 he said
"As a racer, this job, this opportunity, this place - it has been a godsend and a dream. I've been really blessed to have this happen to me at this point in my life." In February 2015, he gave interviews to CBS Baltimore News and Press Box Online and
The Jordan Wallace/Autobahn Racing Clinic was scheduled for March 16th.
Things seem to be going swimmingly, then he gets fired. He loses his steady income, his access to high profile Autobahn clients, a big part of his social life (as much of it seemed to center around Autobahn and kart racing, his sponsor... What happened in the last year? In the last month of his employ at Autobahn? In the last month of his employ with SS? Many assume that because he was still working for SS at the time of his death, that his employment would have continued if not for the murders. Of course that is possible, but it's equally possible that whatever caught up with him at Autobahn also caught up with him at the S home. Perhaps SS was fine with having his wife's car interior posted online. Perhaps he was not, and had spoken with JW about his lack of discretion. Perhaps SS was going to end their business relationship after six weeks. We don't know, so we can't presume any of the answers is true.
Unless there's some conspiracy against JW, his own actions brought him to the point of needing to find a new job. SS was kind enough to create one for him. The murders happening weeks after JW's proximity to the S family began could be (and probably are) coincidence. If not for SS' intervention, what would JW's life have looked like in May 2015? Would he have found that corporate sponsor? Would he have started standing out as someone who began racing ten years later than the competition, but remarkably is beating them on the track?
He was barely treading water with Autobahn. Without it, he went under. He may have thought SS was going to be a life boat, but he was really just a life preserver. SS' energy went toward his son's budding racing career while JW sat on the sidelines. That cannot have been satisfying to JW's ego, and it didn't seem to help his racing aspirations. In six weeks, JW may have realized that his job with SS was not going to pay off for him in the racing world. JW is already late to the party. He doesn't have time to sit out any dances.
At some point JW's life began a downward spiral. His work with SS may have slowed his descent, but it wasn't going to replace what he'd lost. Alternatively, JW could have marked SS in January or earlier, and conspired to get close to the family - not necessarily with criminal intent, but as a way to further his racing career.
JW's social media may have been full of #livingthedream, but he wasn't really living the dream. He
was watching a ten year-old live the dream from the other side of a chainlink fence.
http://www.capitalgazette.com/cg2-arc-140321gn-connections--autobahn-20140329-story.html: "As a racer, this job, this opportunity, this place - it has been a godsend and a dream. I've been really blessed to have this happen to me at this point in my life."
http://www.pressboxonline.com/2015/02/12/karting-a-new-alternative-for-high-school-students: "This has been one of my dreams since I was in high school," Wallace said. "I've raced all over the country. I've been racing for about 10 years, and I've never seen anything like this."