Ok .. elephant in the room.
Jane may have known .. just throwing that out there. He had to come and go at odd hours and have more money than he could otherwise account for .. ? :twocents:
I tend to think that this was a local 'gentlemen's playground' and wives may have been ignorant, but there could have been wives in the know also.
It's a strange world we live in.
Also, the 'mentally challenged' unstable helper is reminding me of DPeterson and his 'helper' ..
Perhaps she did - but I would think not - just my opinion though. The new attorney is alluding to that though which I think is incredibly distasteful since she is not here to speak for herself. So it appears part of his defense is to say Jane knew of this and was ok with it so it is not part of the motive. From the Detroit Free Press - "Griem said his client "loved his wife dearly," adding that "there are many types of marriages today."
The lawyer also addresses the sex dungeon in the same story "Griem said accounts of Bob Bashara having a locked basement room with chains and a mattress in one of his commercial properties "are only rumor and innuendo," probably traceable to the purported accomplice.
"I'm questioning, first, the source of those rumors," Griem said. "I'm not sure that if someone has an alternative lifestyle that they should be painted as guilty of a crime."
Italics put in by me.