Yes, we can suppose that Cheryl could commit suicide. Nobody is imune to it.
But, in order to do so we had to have some more information about her life and her way of being, her character.
We have learned she is kind, family oriented, likes the outdoors, is caring, is inteligente, even brilliant.
So, this person we have been told about could have felt life was too painful (for any reason we don't know, but the closest to her had to have a hint), but
- would she end her life like in this almost machiavellian way leaving her family with so many doubts and questions to add to the pain of losing her?
- would she, so loving of her family, leave this life without a single note left, at least to her only child?
- would she be pulling 'tricks' like charades (parking car, blood in car, animal blood(!!), bag losely over head, culvert) all this so near to home, once again to put her loved ones' minds to question all this?
- would she be inteligente and brilliant, but without intellectual honesty in order to be able to, however her pain to end it all to be so worried to stage her suicide, to be able to think with such coldness?
Only the ones who knew her closely may be able to answer this. Was she someone complicated and 'twisted'?
Was she cold (she was a hunter. I myself have big difficulty to understand how can a person point a gun to injure or kill an animal in cold blood, unless it is a famine person who needs to eat or to feed their famine children), but was she someone as cold as to have pre planned all this and to leave her family not knowing if she was murdered or killed herself?
I don't think so. For all I have been reading about this lady she was the oposite of all this (ok, I'll discount the hunting thing. May be a cultural use).
I think it would be much more lucrative for a killer to stage the crime to look like a suicide in order not to be caught than for a suicicidal person to stage their death to appear as if she was killed.
Why and how would a family oriented and loving mother 'offer' this awful puzzle to her beloved family?
I think she didn't! I do believe the same as from the start that Cheryl was killed!
Only as a note, I would rather 'prefer' a family member of mine to comitt suicide than to be murdered.
With the deep pain and loss in both cases, the idea of having a loving one pleading for their life or being tortured or whatever and wanting to live and being killed by someone else is completely unbearable :frown:
At least in a suicide however our certain feelings of guilt for not being there and our 'ifs', the person owned their life and did it by their own will...