My thoughts on why Wendi knew beforehand:
WA's whole life has been a series of precise and calculated moves so why wouldn't she be involved? Valedictorian, Cambridge, a research fellowship at Carnegie Endowment and law school. She married Dan so she "could cheat the system by marrying a man I lacked passionate love for because ‘Hey, didn’t that die anyway during marriage?’ I saw his intellect and big heart and thought he would make a wonderful father for my children." Her exit strategy from the marriage was the most covert and calculated of them all.
I'm not buying that her family would make this enormous and permanent move on her behalf without her buy-in. The impact being so severe and life-changing for her and those little children. Putting a spotlight on them forever. It may not have been her idea initially. Dan pushed her to the edge with the 'unclean hands' accusation and must have been difficult to know of Dan's deepening relationship with Ms. Adler, a very accomplished, sophisticated, attractive and connected woman living in NYC. LE made a point to let us know that WA was googling the hell of her.All the while, Wendi is trapped in Tallahassee in a relationship she did not see going to the next level, according to what her camp told Above the Law. Man, that boyfriend must have seen some evil there. Breakups are tough, but I don't think my exes would proactively reach out to the police saying they should consider me as a suspect for a brutal crime. That's pretty telling.
Dan turned the tables and was winning the race of the exes. That race being defined as who can be happy first by truly moving on. Simultaneously, legally he was raking her over the coals according to those court documents, pinning her on every move- fairly or unfairly. Their marriage and battle afterwards was quite competitive don't you think? Her words were "being married to someone that didn’t view me as an equal."
Why is Wendi telling the TV technician the divorce joke? Cause she was consumed and hung up on the nastiness of her divorce telling anyone who will listen. Perhaps she did not know the precise timing of the hit? Maybe her family kept those details from her so she had the element of surprise for reaction purposes?
Regarding the efficacy of the police interview, I have seen similar footage from Dateline where the guilty are informed by police and sincerely act distraught.
My thoughts on Katherine Magnabua and Charlie Adelson:
My opinion is that it was a fling initially. He whetted her appetite with the finer things in life. Was helpful in getting her a new job through his connections. I disagree with Above the Law inferring that the murder was in the "early stages of their relationship" and therefore less plausible they'd conspire. If they started dating from late 2013 and crime was July 2014, then 6-8 months of dating is sufficient for me. All that had to happen was for CA to say "I have this problem" and for KM to say "I have a violent gang member baby daddy who I could trust with that. He owes me money for child support, and I could use new breasts."
I bet KM initially told him that CA was not a serious boyfriend, or a not boyfriend at all, to get him to oblige to the deed. Garcia probably got agitated that CA and KM were STILL dating months after the murder, leaving a huge connection out in the open. A career criminal might be annoyed by that -- uh, yeah. Some jealousy peppered in too of course.
