SpanishInquisition
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Kind of puts to bed the $40,000 already being expected if the gang planned to spend the night from the beginning. (Otherwise, why not just show up at the expected drop-off time?) I hadn't thought about how quickly SS called JW after arriving home (based on JW's text response) - ITA that makes it seem more likely this was the plan all along, not a botched burglary. You guys have made me change my mind on that. Thanks CrimeNeverPays and SpanishInquisition.
I do think at least some of that money was expected that week and it was an adjustment to something already arranged rather than something entirely new and it being part of something in the works was how they were able to get $40K instead of the $40K hitting the bank manager completely out of blue the next morning and immediately providing that amount of cash without any real prior notice. It could for instance have been $10K on Friday that was switched to $40K on Thursday. It's not something mutually exclusive and in fact knowledge of cash transactions would be a motive, where you could know someone is going to be getting a bunch of cash within a certain week but you wouldn't know the exact day and time of it. This also may have been something recurring as despite NG saying she didn't know the family had done cash drops previously, she also didn't know about the studio opening until AS told her about it the week before when recruiting her to work related to it as she didn't get told things she didn't need to know. If this was planned - which I think it was - they had to know that not only could SS get lots of cash but that SS could get it home delivered as the home delivery was instrumental to pulling it off. I don't think this was SS's first rodeo dealing with large sums of cash and because of that, I think that's how he was able to get $40K cash within an hour of the bank opening. JW - without any criminal involvement - may have been involved in other cash drops and bragged about that where whoever did this got word of that and would know lots of cash could be dropped off at the home without requiring AS or SS to sign for it in person and that the cash drops happen with some frequency.