I want to make something clear, at least for myself. There is no one that will be happy to hear it is murder vs. Suicide or anything in between. I would actually prefer it to be suicide, because it would be his choice. But that is not the issue here! The issue is that it is nearly unheard of to have a person commit suicide off a short bridge after a 17 mile bike ride, which he has never been seen on a bike (that day or any day prior) and the bike nor the body has not been located. THAT is the issue! To say someone committed suicide when you have no evidence of such- no body, no witness, no blood at the bridge, no article of clothing or a shoe, not even the mode of transportation - is wreckless. It should not get twisted up in the us versus them thing. It is a find Michael Chambers thing. I don't care if he decided to become a woman. None of it matters. What matters is he and his family are being disrespected by having thing after thing after thing that reeks of unfair operations surrounding his disappearance. He deserves respect.
And Becca having boyfriends is only important, as it involves other people. It's a fact, not a judgement. If anyone thinks it is a judgement, it is their own. Up until a few years ago, I always had a few people I dated at once. Didn't make me a *advertiser censored* or a murderer. But if I would have disappeared, they would have had to interview them all. Simple as that.
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Good post, and I mostly agree! Intentionally walking away and suicide were my top 2 theories, almost from the beginning. After learning confirmation of the affairs, I leaned much more toward abduction/murder. I needed no missing bike theory and the 2-mile bridge location for a suicide theory, and still don't. The phone tracking is huge, to me, though.
It's very true there is no solid evidence of a suicide anywhere, but there's also no solid evidence of a murder, anywhere. There are still some kinds of evidentiary things only the LE, family and now PI know.
One of the first things that popped into my head when a missing bike was mentioned, was how that could easily explain the blood drops in the shop. I have no trouble with the thought that MC could have cut his hand, arm, or perhaps even his head, if a bike hanging on an overhead rack ( we have a bike hanging from a pole barn rafter and I hardly ever notice it) partially fell while MC was trying to get it down. Either that, or fiddling with a bike chain, something like that. I've always been very puzzled by the dowel with a blood smear on it, but the "bike theory" even can explain that to me. Keep in mind that no blood was found on any tool or anything else in the entire shop. There's never been a decent explanation as to how the blood came to be.
I've never thought the blood spots could have come from a gunshot wound, but did think they could have come from something sharp- like a screwdriver or of course, a knife. Whatever caused the injury, it wasn't an arterial injury ( no spurting), wasn't from blunt force ( would probably have been more blood and blood cast-off), or a gunshot- . It's always been very puzzling that the drops showed no direction of movement . A blood spatter expert could probably tell us a lot more, even from looking at photos.
If no bike existed, I'm stuck at the point where I've been stuck all year.