When he returned from overseas, rather than getting Nancy money from the ATM, he gave her his foreign currency and she had to go to the airport with the kids to exchange it.
They could've went to the BofA on the corner to exchange the currency AND according the affidavit, it was to pay for a movie that Nancy and the kids were going to see, while Brad stayed home.
One of the first rules in any travel guide is to exchange minimal money in the airport because you'll generally not get the best rate and pay a higher fee. I don't know the situation at RDU, but pretty much all large banks would make an exchange and if you're (or your companion) is a customer, it's generally free.
He claims he left her $350 and he has the cancelled check to prove it. Yeah, IF there is such a check, I'd like to know what she paid with it. Telephone bill? Electricity?
I'm still catching up and haven't read today's affidavits, but Brad's says that he paid the bills and her friends say that she wouldn't/couldn't even pay for the water.
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And, if I might revisit the gas thing: As I
posted earlier, the "follow to the store", "buy the minimal amount of gas" was most likely a single instance and perhaps they had gone before the store opened, so they'd have to use a card at the pump; Perhaps Brad was squeezing dimes and he put in only enough to get through to the next paycheck. No one really knows.
His affidavit says that he gave Nancy 80% of the leftover money as a household budget and kept 20% for himself. If this is true and if Nancy had already spent the household budget, then Brad probably didn't have much left. I mean, she was supposedly given cash and one of her friend's affidavits says that she found it burdensome to go into gas stations to pay with cash, so she obviously was buying some (or most) of her own gas and was clearly capable to do it.
What kind of "control" would only half-filling a tank give, anyway? If she was going to run away with the kids, she'd only get half as far, but even a full tank wouldn't get you to Canada and if she left the day after getting the household money, why couldn't she just keep filling the tank until they got to their destination? Even at today's prices, $300 will still go quite a ways.
IOW: Like some of the other claims in the friend's affidavits, I see one story about one incident being repeated and magnified, while in this instance and forgetting about the logical question of why wouldn't she just buy more gas, one of the affidavits actually contadicts the others by complaining about paying cash.
Of course, none of this says that she deserved to be murdered, but there's just a lot of repetition and huhs in some of those early affidavits. None of the secondhand claims have anything to do with the actual murder and I see nothing that would take away his kids, so why did they even submit the things? Personally, I don't really see their purpose.
.....haven't had one of those in a looooooong time.......:floorlaugh:
