When I first saw his picture and read about his red car (midlife crisis car?), I thought he was having an affair and took off with the other woman.
Then for a long time I thought he met with foul play. You don't search a preserve for a live person and that's where the searches were concentrated. I could not picture him leaving his children. The mortgage scam and the players in it colored my thinking also.
But then I thought about the tools missing from the car. I can only see him being the one who made them disappear because he is the only one that they are worth anything to. I also don't see anyone else but him putting his wallet, phone and money in the garage.
So to me without knowing if the placement of the personal items was abnormal or not, I could go either way. If it were the normal spot, then he either met with foul play after leaving the house or he got an emergency phone call from his lover on his second phone. If it were not the normal spot then to me then either the bad guy with the gun made him put them in the drawers before pushing him into his car or this was a planned departure and he was rushing to get whatever it was he needed out of the house before taking off (and I'm thinking he changed his clothes in those 10 minutes).
IM's words haunt me. "We will keep you safe". What do these words mean? I could not fathom saying these words in a plea to my own husband if he were missing. What would RM fear his safety from?
Rarely am I this wishy washy with a case. But it's probably because of the missing information that would clear things up in my head.