KSM
Great post and I think you may be spot on in relation to the insurance policy. If Allison thought that one way of getting the budget down was to relinquish one of the policies and rang them and asked them this (the phone call on April 18) and mentioned that to GBC. He may have thought to bring forward his plans. What makes me shudder is that this is all so much premeditated - and even if planned for later maybe what was speculated about earlier eg his credit card being rejected may have made him seem red.
Allison coming home from the hairdressers (if she knew TM was going to be there the sort of thing a woman would do - having to face up to the mistress she wanted to feel and look her best) having spent money on that would have made him even more furious.
Even though, knowing more now than a few weeks ago, I still cannot fathom how someone could be so cold and callous and self centred as to go to his children's cross country run the day before and see them being alive and well and happy, than have the children asleep in the house, whilst he murders their mother for financial gain and be with his mistress. No matter how hard I try I find that so reprehensible and disgusting I cannot find the words to express myself.
Also given what we now understand from phone calls etc that someone must have become aware (people close to the children, related to the children) who assisted him instead of turning him in and at least allowing the children to feel that whilst their father did something very wrong at least their grandparents did not agree and had morals and spines. But no, the facade was maintained and the children lived with their mother's killer and accessories before and/or after he fact for a number of weeks. Because their grandparents were spineless immoral beings they have had to loose not just their mother, but also their friends, their grandparents, and their familiar surroundings. As well as the ability to trust those closest to them as they have betrayed them. I don't care how the Dickies spent the money in the trust fund for the girls, as nothing can give them back what is priceless; love and trust from their parents.