Truly, I cannot understand why all this evaluation of homes, money raising, credit squeezing , ratting thru the jam jar stuff was not done, or begun to be done the moment Hedley began asking around in two states. A normal person, guilty or not , would have seen the writing on the wall, the potential for , at some stage, a determination for questions to be asked , and re- asked, and answers demanded, by a lawful authority.
It is hard to believe that Chris, and Paul, and Peter, maintained this idiotic silence, ( as if that would halt all proceedings) and at the same time, fail to round up all available monies, credit, loans , lends, all of it in a nice neat pile, ready for the inevitable!
It convinces me that none of these Dawson blokes are half as clever as they themselves imagine them selves to be. They have blind spots, the huge blind spots of the genetic narcissist.
Either the Dawsons , as a mob, are completely delusional , or / and financially ignorant, and/or simply living in la la land, where by all this current situational uncomfortableness seems to have not even been considered.
They must have all been living in some sort of cloud like area, where normal facts never intrude, people believe what one says forever, wives come and go, children take on surnames and drop them, people move hither and yon, all protected from that terrible realm of reality, where truth, that highly inconvenient concept, occasionally raises it's frightening head and shouts out stuff...