In Jan 2019, I compare Lori to a missile that had already launched. She was armed with a list of 'dark spirits' who would get in her way. She was no longer acting as a wife and a mother, she was a God and a 'gatherer' for the mission. She was infatuated with it and told Charles he was already dead. She cleared out the business bank account and blocked his access to his life policy; both of these things would not be discovered if he died imminently, and we can see that details of Lori's mission would have gone to the grave with Charles. There would be no purpose to her actions if Charles lived and divorced her, no policy payout and the business monies would be recoverable if not through legal action, through any divorce settlement. Something must have gone wrong with her plan, imo, and she disappeared for two months and had to let the dust settle on that, but not for too long, as we see.
Perhaps we should look at it through the lens of the man who wrote the list ranking Lori's family members, whose wife also was to die, paving his future.
Subsequent to Jan 2019, Charles' divorce petition, phsychiatric evaluation petition and order of protection contained allegations related to Lori's role in 'the mission', her threats to kill him, her mental instability and unfitness as a mother.
I doubt if Charles (and Tylee imo) were left alive, with his (their) knowledge of Lori and Chad's association and all the details including the "strange link" to a website about their church and "crazy people", that Tammy's sudden death would have bypassed the noses of the police. I think Chad was eliminating reporting parties when he drew up the list of dark people in Lori's life. The deaths of Charles and Tammy came with planned monetary gain but that's nothing compared to the prospect of being convicted of murdering his wife and spending his life behind bars.
MOO