I'd be more than able to swallow the idea of someone else running a business and taking advantage of DM if it wasn't for one thing. DM was referred to many times as "The Boss". Are you suggesting that the real bad guys just had DM out there as a front? That they gave him the title of "the boss" to make him feel good so they could exploit him, blackmail him or coerce him into allowing WM's hangar be used for a chop shop? That they let him go out on car heists for giggles? mmmmm I'll need a lot of sugar to get that one down.
Seems to me that some of the most shocking crimes in history are those where LE finally realize that all DNA, finger prints, tire tracks, boot prints etc all point to the good looking, successful, wealthy individual that had absolutely no reason to commit the crime. Bernardo was so good at this that LE had questioned him in concern to the Scarborough rapes...and let him go! Further, once they did snag him, it was discovered that his sister in law had also been murdered. And PB even found someone to help him!
Now, when I say "no reason to commit the crime", IMO, that is simply a perception that us poor little humans have. As decent law abiding human beings with full functioning consciences, we cannot even begin to understand why someone who has everything could ever be responsible for terrible acts. Everyone looks for a reason "why not" because it defies our own perceptions of the world. We don't fear the good looking, financial secure individual..they're everything we strive to be- but rather, we throw our suspicions towards those who are poorer and have been in trouble with the law before. Reality is that psychopaths walk amongst us and do not have socio-economic barriers. JMHO, the poor, unattractive guy with a criminal record is very seldom the complex criminal. As always...MOO