Well he did have a decent paying job. And im sure he maybe spent a little more then he should because his intentions were trying to get her back and sometimes you will go out of your budget in order to win a woman over. I very seriously doubt his intentions were for this to happen or he would not of just dropped her body 20 miles away from where it happened in a bag. While i am not trying to defend his actions in any means, in no way is this premeditated or even look as so. You see these crimes of passion a lot, you have a man trying to get a woman back who really does not want to be with him but yet still gives him a change and you mix in alcohol(which tends to bring deeper feelings out), and an already volatile history and it is spelling disaster. She probably told him some things he did not want to hear after some drinks and the violence was taking to a whole different level.