What if the perp, knowing about all of V’s troubles (custody dispute & all), felt those issues would be obvious enough to LE (& members of the local community, amateur sleuths, etc.) to serve as a welcome distraction/likely lead the masses to quickly jump to the conclusion that V was the primary target & J a victim of circumstance?
Is it possible, in a surprising twist, Jillian may turn out to have been the one the assailant was primarily after/true target?
I haven’t any evidence to this effect nor any reason to necessarily believe this to be the case in this particular instance. (Edited post to add all ideas/MOO.)
However, I felt I would be remiss not to at least present the idea as a possibility since there have been multiple cases in which we have seen the wife of a pastor murdered. Remember these ladies? See below:
Kenneth Eugene Smith will be the first person in the world to be executed using nitrogen gas , for his 1988 murder of Elizabeth Sennett. But who was the victim? And why did Smith kill her?
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"She has never been as happy as she was now." A nurse and her pastor husband were found slain a mere week after they got married.
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The pastor's wife was shot inside their home last week; she died two days later.
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Nearly four months after Eunice Dwumfour, a pastor s wife and Republican New Jersey councilwoman was gunned down in her car just outside her townhome in Sayreville, authorities announced that they
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