KD has previously been asked if he’s concerned about being harmed because of his coverage. Murdering a journalist seems unhelpful but I may not have the mindset required to arrange a hit.
I don’t believe the “hit man” theory at all, particularly the variation that makes the WM a hit assistant who was helping the mastermind with the on-site work and tragically placed the entire operation at risk by not using the mastermind’s superior entry and exit route that evades detection. But perhaps I’m not accounting for human irrationality. What if the mastermind arranged a hit but then decided to involve himself on site later? Under this scenario perhaps the mastermind decided late in the game that he wanted to be there to see it all go down. This fits with the theory that the staging was a decision made in the moment. I don’t think of hit men as being particularly artistic or impulsive but perhaps the mastermind is impulsive and didn’t want to walk away from bodies left where they died. Nor did he want to hear about it later.
As I type, this feels like a stretch.
I keep trying to find a way to make the “hit man” theory make sense but I just can’t get there. Mossad of all services seems particularly unlikely to go after the Shermans, and they’re cited most frequently when the idea comes up.