Re: the boating accident.
Anthony Cook stated in his deposition he was Paul Murduagh's cousin. He also stated that Mallory yelled at Paul and told him he was being stupid Re: deposition of Anthony Cook. Paul who had already been arguing with the other 5 occupants of the boat over his driving (claiming to know that river better than anyone else on board) even going so far as to slap, push and spit on his girlfriend MD, (per depositions of Anthony Cook and Miley Altan) then pointed at Mallory and started to say something to her. AC at that time (according to his deposition) said to Paul "Don't make that mistake". Paul stares at him without blinking for a few seconds, then begins to strip down to his underwear. It was February, a dark cold foggy night with a misting rain, so we can assume all the occupants had on heavy clothing (indeed AC testified he had on 2 jackets and took one off in order to swim out of the water). If all occupants were dressed in jackets, sweats, sweaters, pants and boots (Mallory had on a pink shirt, pants and pink fuzzy boots per her descriptive clothing given to searchers) and all occupants were arguing with Paul, JMO that Paul was angry at the other 5 occupants. So in conclusion, considering the ongoing arguments in which they were all ganging up on Paul, so to speak, His cousin AC's implied threat concerning Paul's perceived treatment (or verbal abuse) of his girlfriend Mallory, Paul stripping down to his boxers then throttling the boat to high speed on what he admittedly knew was a dangerous waterway, the only conclusion I can draw is he knew how close the bridge was from their location, knew that if he was stripped to his boxers he had a more that even chance of swimming out of the river, while knowing that the 5 other people dressed in heavy clothing had only a slim chance of making it out of the cold water, dragged down by jeans, boots and jackets. My conclusion and this is my theory only, he deliberately and knowingly throttled the boat to a high speed close to the bridge and hit the bridge piling to throw everyone from the boat into the cold water where he knew that of the 6 he was the only one to have an equal chance of surviving.
If I, as a stranger, not having been on the boat, have drawn this conclusion from his cousins description of his personality (Timmy) while drunk, then I am sure that AC and CC who knew him their entire lives, were relatives and friends, also had that same thought cross their minds more than a few times as have the families and friends of MA, MD, AC, CC and MB.
Deliberately trying to drown or otherwise kill 5 people (this is my opinion only of Paul's behavior that night) would give a motive to all 5 plus their families and friends. Indeed perhaps the entire town drew the same conclusion and that is why so much hostility generated over the death of Malloy Beach that doesn't seem to have abated much if the comments on Paul's obituary are any indication.
Thoughts anyone?
JMO
