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This is listed under the Defiance Farrms FB site.)
I find Defiance to be an odd name for a farm/business. Almost like a "shoving it in your face" type name. Maybe shoving it the face of the elder W's?
From prior posts, it did not appear that they were planning to sell out, and move, at that point.
So all that nonsense about them planning to move to AK for years was just BS. They decided to get the heck out of Dodge after the murders.
- Offered information to the BCI on business associates of one of the victims.
How would the W's know about the R's business associates unless the W's were in the business with the R's and the unknown business associate? Sounds like they were all in business together.
I too found the name odd, however, I had read a post by AW that stated that the name was from their "defying" chemically/additive treated foods and the same for their animals. All of the farm animals were provided with foods, w/o additives, including their dogs. Seems AW liked to cook,too and from scratch. The family seemed to like a very "natural" type of living. This would fit, imo, with their Alaska dream. Kenai, especially, seems like a good fit for them.
I think the AK dream was real, it just appeared to me, that they were not putting it out there on FB that they were planning to sell the farm to move to AK. I think AW liked her farm. I think that, after the murders, there was so much antagonism toward them, for one, and they sold off livestock, in the beginning, to possibly try to help JW with money issues (he needed legal aid, and he had to take a much lesser paying job when S came to live with them so he could be home for her), and, ultimately, I don't think that the farm was the money maker they thought it would be either. Remember, they were all living in that small home. They'd previously lived on the elder Ws farm and bugged out (I don't think they were all that warm and fuzzy with the elders). I think, what with all the aforementioned, they just decided to make a new start.
I'll be honest, we gave some serious thought about moving near Manitou Springs, Colorado, or Naples, FL. Like the Ws, we toyed with the idea. here and there, for years, however, like most folks, there has always been stuff that held us back. I love Ky., for one, and, another, I didn't want to uproot my kids away from their family, friends, or their father (no matter what his vices were, he was their father).
Now, my kids are grown, but, I don't want to leave my grandkids,or my aging parents. So, just because I played around with the dream, and brought home realtor catalogs, from vacation, mentioned it to other family members and friends, that I would love to move there someday, I knew it wasn't going to happen any time soon, if ever. Now, my friend? It didn't bother her a bit. She'd wanted to move to a particular state for ever so long. Talked about it with whoever would listen. Ultimately, they found a business there, she turned in her two weeks at the place she'd worked at for decades, left her aging, widowed, father behind, in addition to her daughter & grandkids, and headed out. Has been happily living there for years. Won't hardly even come back here for holidays if the temp is below 50 degrees.
Now, playing Devil's Advocate, if I were the Ws, and I had no close family there, and someone wiped out my kid's father, and his immediate family? I'd probably, at the very least, move far away from that location, if not start making plans to move to Manitou Springs, CO or Naples, Fla. (if I had the funds). Who'd want to live near the place where your child's entire family was slaughtered? AW, or JW, said they told LM that they would arrange visits with him, w/ S, but they were not taking her on that road, and her thinking she was going to get to see her Mommy, and there weren't even any homes left, where her Mommy lived. I can see their point, because one of my grandkids can still point out a place where they lived, back when they were about two or three. The child mentions it every single time we pass the place. They'll exclaim, "There's my other house! I love that house! I wish I could live there again." It isn't anyplace super special but apparently there are some fond memories that stuck in their brain. Little S, might too, have a rush of memories, if they tun into UHR, but where are the homes that she lived in and spent time with her Mommy, and other family, who loved her?
After my grandchild's father passed, his s/o, packed up their days old infant, and left the state, soon after the memorial service. Returned to her home state to be near her own family. My grandchild gets to see their half sibling once, or twice, a year. ( It was uncanny how they showed up in almost identical outfits, for their day together.) The grandparents only see the child then, too.
My point, is that each person is different. I think the Ws farm was already starting to see financial trouble before the murders, they weren't that close to their only family there in Adams County, so, they were waiting to see if the infant was JW's. If she had been, they still would have sold the farm, but put off going to Alaska until JW was able to obtain custody of the infant, and then went on with their move to Alaska. This family is as close knit, it seems, as the Rs, just not as large. So, after the newborn proved not to be JW's, they just moved the Alaska date up, and left.
As for the business associate, if CR1 and father W, were close friends, then he'd possibly know about a business associate that may be sketchy. If it's the one I'm thinking of, everyone probably knew about that one, and I've thought he was sketchy too, and I'm not even a friend of CR1, or know the sketchy business associate, personally.
