I started reading this case the day it happened ... it was a slow day ... I was on the fence for about six weeks and then ... when I read that all the lights were on in the house at 4:10 in the morning, I wondered if the husband was guilty. I didn't believe that a random burglar would have all the lights on ... random burglars don't know if mom lives across the street, it's too risky ... burglars are not normally that stupid. Add the backed up light colored vehicle like something was being loaded ...
I have wondered what Jason's plan was if strangulation was successful, was it to load her into the back of the vehicle and leave her in a place that couldn't be found .. perhaps like those missing clothes. Karen Swift appears to have been strangled - still waiting for autopsy reports - but the body has been released after 6 weeks to the extended familny (mom not husband). What if Karen's murder had been violent and bloody ... what if Nancy Cooper's murder had been violent and bloody ... then there's Michelle, who put up a mighty fight, and lost. What would her husband have done with her body if he had been successful with the strangulation attempt ... assuming that the husband did it.
It seems that murderers like to distance themselves from the vctim. Vincent Tabak, in the UK, distanced himself from the neghbor he murdered by dumping her body near a bike path, country club and gravel pit. Brad Cooper and Karen Swift's husbands distance themselves from the victim by removing their wife's bodies from the home. Jason apparently tried to strangle his wife, failed and beat her to death. If she had disappeared instead of been murdered, would police have scrutenize him in the same way?
