They perhaps could not have afforded to rent them except for CWW having a Visa card on which to charge the rentals. I believe you cannot even rent a car nowadays without having a credit card against which the car rental company can "place a hold" on a certain dollar amount prior to you taking the car.
Regarding CWW keeping the rental car after they got back from the funeral, the rental contract was for a week, per the contract. So maybe he liked the car and just wanted to keep it for the entire pre-paid week.
Do we know for sure that he ever picked up his own car from the repair shop? Because that would have involved him paying for the repairs. What vehicle was he in when the police picked him up?
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"she also lost a very young daughter who was kidnapped and murdered. <sidenote: We actually had a thread for her here at the time.>"
Was there ever an arrest and/or conviction for this crime?
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Another question:
So, we are to believe that when the wife of MS was murdered, he never even called his "best buddy" - to whom he talked or texted every day for years, except over the prior month or two - to tell said buddy that his wife was dead? Hmmm....
Then CWW and wife AW immediately jump into another rental car and head for Florida. And they stayed for how long? With relatives of TS? Which relatives?
And CWW was out at the Seiver house installing cameras to the outside of the house? How very strange. Was this when the police still had the house cordoned off?
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WHY was CWW rushing back down to Florida? When do we think MS paid CWW? How much? If the JRR portion was to be $10,000, then CWW must have been going to get a lot more than that amount, right?
Did CWW ever get paid? Did JRR ever get paid? Could that be what the $40,000 in the safe was for? Was the murderer supposed to take the money out of the safe as payment but could not open the safe, or what?
I agree with others who have posted that MS telling police "we kind of live month-to-month" and "there is $40K cash in a safe in the house" does not make a lot of sense. It would take some time to accumulate that amount of cash out of the medical business. Maybe not so much time if it was generated by something to do with drug dealing.