I don't think her journal only talked about an isolated incident. Her journal clearly showed JS did not love her as much she hoped. She wrote "There is a fire within my heart that rages with such burning desire...to have my hands held in two loving hands as i am told how much I am loved... someone so speical....these will never come true as long as I'm with him...Is this the curse for leaving Evan (fake name for Neil in the book)? Is this why I feel this incredible emptiness?"
Maybe I misused the word "that into her". I meant to say JS never loved her enough to consider marrying her. This was shown in her journal which said she had no idea whether they would ever be engaged, let alone getting married. RZ's sister in a TV interview also echoed this. Also, for RZ's death, JS only has two possibilities. He was either involved or not involved. If he was involved, there really is no point to discuss how much he loved RZ. If he was not invovled, the fact he did not even stop by his house for one minute after hearing about her death spoke volume of how much RZ weighed in his heart.
Anyway, my opinion is if AS was involved in the murder, JS must be. Without JS' approval, AS in a million years would never dare to harm his brother's girlfriend while JS stayed at his dying son's hospital bed. He also would not work with his brother's estranged ex wife Dina behind JS's back. And based on AS's behavior, it's very possible he's invovled. He said he cut down Rebecca from the rope. Why did he not leave any finger prints and hand print on the knife, rope, and RZ's body? Did he search for a pair of surgical gloves before he cut her down? This question was raised by RZ's sister and attorney too. His job as a tub boat captain means he must be familiar with the boating knots found on RZ. His strange comment of his bedside manner and his inconclusive lie detection test are all very suspicous.
True. JS did not join DS's continual vengeful PR campaign about Max's assault and homicide against Becky. To me, this does not speak anything about his opinion on MS's death. If he believed RZ had something to do with MS's death and ordered RZ's murder, he already got the justice he thought due to MS. Why would he want to campaign against RZ to make the whole world know he had a motive to kill RZ?
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Thanks for explaining your view. But even as you say now, that Becky wrote that Jonah did not love her as much as she hoped, does not mean he NEVER loved her. That is what you originally wrote, and that was what I found lacking in evidence and exaggerated. The word you overstated was "NEVER", not the phrase "that into her".
We don't know that Jonah never intended to marry her either. Again from one or two excerpts of Becky's journal entries from Ann Rule's book, you cannot infer that. Maybe on that particular day Becky questioned whether Jonah was right for her, whether he was worthy of her hand in marriage. Maybe in other journal entries, she spoke of how happy she was with Jonah -- how Jonah was kind and loving and supportive of her, how she couldn't wait to marry him. We just don't know because her entire journal was not published for us to read. Ann Rule only chose to publish one or two short blurbs from Becky's journal. So we just don't know enough to draw solid conclusions about Becky and Jonah's relationship.
Also, there have been MSM articles that stated that Becky and/or Jonah's friends said Jonah gave Becky an engagement ring, and that Becky even wore that lovely engagement ring. For all intents and purposes, that sounds like he intended to marry her at some point in their relationship.
I think we can all relate to inequitable romantic relationships -- where one partner feels more for the other. Relationships are not always 50/50, and partners within relationships do not love equally or in the same way. Some partners need or expect more from the other; some partners are more independent and need/expect less, etc. Relationships are complex and multifaceted, depending on the individuals and the circumstances.
I agree that either Jonah was involved in her murder or he wasn't. I lean towards his non-involvement. But just because he did not stop by the mansion to get a cheap thrill looking at her dead body (as opposed to a murdering someone who looked like Dina who just had to show up and ogle at Becky's dead body that Wed morning) doesn't mean he didn't love her.
Some people are the squeamish type who don't want to look at someone they love who's now a cold, dead, naked body having been strung up in a noose in their own home. I know I'm not squeamish and yet, I am certain I would not drive home after being in the hospital with a child braindead in ICU to see another loved one whom I was told by someone I trusted -- i.e., Jonah was told by his brother Adam whose veracity he had no reason to doubt at the time -- that the person I loved and was hoping to marry -- is now nude and had hung herself.
Additionally, after Jonah had called Pfingst to act as defense lawyer to Adam, Pfingst and Jonah's PR firm likely instructed Jonah to stay as far away from the crime scene as possible. And that's what Jonah did. So no, Jonah not driving home to see Becky's dead body for himself does not mean he never loved or intended to marry her.
What is most apparent in Jonah's not joining forces with Dina in her continual harangue of a dead woman post-mortem is that he wants Dina out of his life permanently. He wants nothing to do with Dina. Period. If Jonah believed Dina's diatribe about Becky or her younger sis XZ harming his little boy Max, don't you think he would turn over every stone to find out if that were the case? I'd think irrespective of whether he had been involved in Becky's murder, he'd still want to know the truth about his little boy being "assaulted" and possibly being "thrown over the balcony" in a "homicidal rage" as is alleged in Dina's "expert reports". After all, Max was his son too. What parent doesn't want to know the truth about the cause of their son's death, unless the parent believes in his heart that his son's death was an accident? So I believe Jonah believes Max's death was a tragic accident, and that Becky was not responsible for Max's accident.
