If nothing else, thank you for at least confirming I'm not way the heck out there.
As far as the "framing" goes, I'm of the opinion WH thinks he's smarter than LE and that it was all an attempt at misdirection. I believe he thought he could get away with waving the shiny object and not have it come back to him in a way that would implicate him, and he comes out ahead no matter what happens. On the one had, if LE believes that he did find the jacket and are willing to enter it in to evidence, the framing works. On the other hand, if LE doesn't believe him, he's contaminated a crime scene and the evidence. I believe he had the "discussion" with everyone in the house, so if asked witnesses could testify that his intention was to go in and "find" it, that they all knew the jacket was in there, thereby making WH look at the very least like an emotional father who felt helpless and wanted to do something.
And all of this "okay" stuff to me revolves around the idea that there was a heck of a lot more going on in the house than just being a family dwelling. I don't believe the kids are involved, but I can't believe that JH didn't at least know what was WH was doing, and perhaps was involved even more, thus the lack of emotion, the phrasing of her statements, her actions, etc, that would indicate that AJ is still "ok," at least in the sense of not being dead as so eloquently stated above.
(((Zach))) hang in there.
