Can someone PLEASE explain to me how and why this cold be is any way a suicide? I'm just catching up now, but I haven't seen it explained.
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I am as confused as you are.
All we have now is speculation about her life such as she was depressed or had financial problems but I haven't seen that verified anywhere.
Going to visit her ailing mother just seem like such a typical thing to do. We don't even know if her mother was gravely ill do we? And if she was, why in the world would she kill herself knowing she had a supportive husband and children/grandchildren who love her? I haven't read any cases that I think of where an adult child who had their own life/family took their life because of an ill parent but I could have missed such instances. It seems if she was that upset over her mother she would have moved her mother in with her family.
I know suicides rarely make any sense because imo they are an irrational act and so is the mind of the one contemplating it but if this is suicide its one of the strangest ones I have ever heard about.
Another thing that bothers me is where she was supposedly shot. It had to be in her lower chest since they are also saying it made contact with her abdomen also. I don't believe that the gunshot wound would have been immediately fatal. Gunshot wounds to the abdomen causes a lot of pain and suffering before they finally bleed out.
But the thing that bothers me the most is how this suicide was played out if it is even a suicide. Why traumatize those for life who love her by putting them through all of that? She knew they would contact police and she had no idea when they would find her if she really wasn't in the trunk when she called them. So if she did this she would be the one driving her car to where it was located. She would know that the police could spot her vehicle at anytime and see that she was the one driving if that was indeed the case.
Now several insurance companies have a clause in the policy and will payout on suicides if the policy is over two years old but we don't really have any idea if this was even about insurance or even if she had a policy on herself.
The cases I have seen where someone suicidal was later found dead did not have any contact with family members and wouldn't even pick up their phones when the families were desperately trying to contact them to locate their whereabouts.
It is just so hard to believe this wife/mom/grandmother could be so cruel as to put all of her family through this if she really committed suicide.
Whatever the truth is, I hope they find out soon because either way it is not fair to the family who is going through pure hell by losing Rita. Being abducted in broad daylight isn't anything new nor is it uncommon for others not to see the victim being abducted either. There have been several other abductions at rest stops over the years.
If she set all of this up then why leave her purse in her vehicle or the keys in the ignition. She easily could have thrown those out to make it seem like the perpetrator took the purse with him.
So many unanswered questions but it should be easy to find footage of her out of the car after she said she was in the trunk. Did LE say that they did find evidence of Rita being hit in the head? I know that wouldn't be the cause of death so the ME wouldn't even mention that because the gunshot to the chest/abdomen is what caused her death. Wasn't her card used? Surely the clerk would remember her since it happened recently and their memory would be fresh or they could verify the signature. Or was it at an ATM machine that has cameras?
My heart is breaking for Rita's family. Not knowing what really happened must be agonizing for them all and if there is a person out there who is dangerous and not caught then that is even scarier. I never pay any mind to when LE says they believe no one else is in danger. I have seen that said repeatedly over the years by a lot of PD all over the country and in the end the perp was a complete stranger to the victim and the police were wrong about it being an isolated case rather than random. That happened to the two Husted parents who were murdered. The murderer continued terrorizing the area doing home invasions because the police were convinced they were killed by someone known to them. He was finally arrested for their murder. The same thing has been said by LE in other cases as well and it turned out not to be true.
IMO
