New to WS, have enjoyed reading the insightful views and wnted to weigh in on this sad one. I’m not as impressed w/ the . Public funding is a sign of the times and all too easy to set up. Well-meaning friends…a few clicks… little foresight. Distasteful, but doubt killer was banking on a . Hitman theory also odd – why wait for victim to get home (or follow/ accompany her home), let her sleep for hours, then enter w/ a hammer. (Curious if her bed was slept in.) Plenty of easier ways for a hit if u know she’s arriving alone at an airport at night at a specific time – elsewhere would avoid risk of B&E into an unknown setting on a residential street. And a hit for what? Surely not hopes of hefty earnings.
I don’t see significant $$ issues on the homefront. This doc had more going on than the alternative part of her practice – boarded internist, speaker, author, and on staff at a couple local hospitals where substantial income can be had just from rounding. Extended family incl other physicians – at minimum, an adult family support system. Hubby/her did admirable comm outreach. Career issues don’t seem problematic in this 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] marriage. The EX-husband factor is of interest, even their time in MIssouri. Any lingering conflict from past is worth looking into.
Despite Sheriff’s “connectivity” word, this still smells like a crime of opportunity – a burglary. The connectivity may be in the burglar knowing her, maybe well planned out? Maybe the burglary had to do w/ some special item or sensitive thing stored in that house (than the usual jewels, money)? I do think side door was jimmied for entry. If you’re going to stage a break-in after, you’d make damage more obvious. There’s also the hammer (assuming burglars use hammer & chisel device to quietly pry locks, maybe even to plug alarm sensors in the doorjam); and then there’s this house. It sticks out like a sore thumb (gated castle) on G-Maps - in an unsecured community of much lower priced residences, and only a stone’s throw from a busy X-street. Rows of apt bldgs to the W. side of Jarvis, many seem to have views right into this home. Media search shows some problem w/ burglaries in the general area. If someone had a beef w/ her OR wanted something specific out of that house, or had been casing this street and “doc’s fancy home” – sounds like they’d have no trouble knowing the family was out of town. The time to hit would be opportunistic – someone who has to sneak out when the rest of their own family is sleeping. Maybe he cased it one final time Sun night, no one still home, and he planned an early am rise to sneak over while still dark. THE FENCE – holy cow, you could hide behind that thing for hours trying to pry a door. If perp jammed the alarm at pt of entry, they could walk around freely. Any motion sensors inside would be off. She is awakened by the burglar in BR or confronts him after waking – both surprise each other. Doesn’t take much for a “gruesome” scene when using a hammer. I don’t necessarily see passion behind this manner, it was the tool at hand. The man’s yell … some say a lover’s spat. I think a younger, scared burglar would yell out to her to shut up after she screamed (so would a burglar who knows her), but she fought for her life and he let loose with what he was holding. Then fled. On foot. (Did he first get in that van to use it and then changed his mind?) Maybe LE found evidence of that, her blood or something in the van.) Where would a killer go from there on foot, all bloody, but back to the quiet of their home. Why didn’t more people hear dogs barking – did he zig zag through lawns? He had to be bloody, so there’s a bld trail, and wherever he went, someone else saw his bloody clothes. Why didn’t LE have dogs trying to tracking a scent from the home? All JMO.
