I have enjoyed reading the threads that pertain to Beverly, for several months now. I joined the Website specifically for this case. I own a business related to the real.estate industry. I have countless friends that could have and still could find themselves in the same situation as beautiful Beverly. This story hits too close to home.
The insight posed here is amazing. With the exception of a post that appears to have been removed yesterday (thank goodness), you have all respectfully allowed each other to do what everyone here should do, and that is sleuth. The lack of details in the case leave the opportunity for a great deal of sleuthing.
It is JMHO that it seems unreasonable to believe a wife would return from clinicals, to find her newly bald, scratched up (whether it happened that day or the day prior) husband calmly playing video games. Also, when considering the cat fight episode, CL is clearly not a passive, "look the other way" kind of wife. It's not like they lived in a mansion, and I could be wrong, but doubt AL was in charge of the laundry. It does not make sense that CL overlooked the cell phone of another woman. From the beginning it didn't smell right that AL orchestrated this alone. And that 3rd car (the silver one).......
All of the details (sadly for the lovely family of Beverly) will come out soon. One can't fathom the torture the family will go through, with AL representing himself. Even though they possess more grace than any other family would in this situation, the arrogance of AL, and the awful story it appears he intends to tell will surely test their endurance.
With regard to how and when Beverly died, I think you all have been right on. I have gone back and forth with the suffocation theory, the initial use of a bat as a quiet method to immobilize her and not turning out as planned, torturing her on video for her family and coming to the realization they did not have the ability to pay the likely unreasonable ransom, and then the recognition of CL. All would be awful scenarios, and all are a possibility.
Until a few months ago, we had no clue our son was a mouth breather, because he had 100% blockage of his nasal passages. If his mouth had ever been covered, he would not have survived. Combined with panic (hyperventilating) and being congested from crying/being in the trunk of a car, poor Beverly very well could have suffocated. AL and CL, being cruel (as they clearly seem to be) wouldn't want to walk away from their plan with nothing. They possibly pretended Beverly was still alive, and continued with pursuing a ransom. Hence hanging onto the cell phone.
On SM, the mother of AL posted that a person without God will be buried alive. I hope there is no correlation there, since he has expressed his disgust with the obsession his mother has with God. That is one scenario I have tried to push out of my mind.
In the end, the Carter family deserves peace, and justice for this tragedy. Very few families would be able to ever find peace after this. They are extraordinary. Hopefully this freak show of a trial (as I foresee it will be) will move swiftly, so they can begin to seek closure, and focus only on the beautiful life Beverly lived, and not the way it was so unnecessarily robbed from her.
There will be no winners in the circle involved in this. It doesn't appear that AL has a person in the world that cares what happens to him (a fate he created for himself), so hopefully he will just deteriorate all by himself. CL leaves behind three children to deal with her poor choices. They will find it hard to understand that they will be much better without her influence, but they will. Admirably, the Carter family will continue to honor the life of their Beverly, by helping raise safety awareness for other agents out there trying to earn a living.
When one looks at the polar opposite way that Beverly lived her life, in comparison to the two that took it from her, it is understandable why Beverly has so many good people (family, friends, and strangers) supporting her. The other two, well, other than a few innocent children, no decent people really care what happens, as long as they just go away.
