What do you think the plan was with the abduction (zip ties)? Where did they plan to murder her? Who was going to participate in her death?
The zipties tell the whole story.
I think he intended to incapacitate her, zio toe her, throw a baseball cap on and drove her vehicle away (to appear as her). Destination unknown. 80 MS, maybe. Transferred to a second vehicle, maybe. Another Suburban, another driver, another rooftop storage container, maybe.
He never intended to leave any sign of a struggle. I think he used his children at the picnic dinner to learn (by watching) the garage security code. As vigilant as JFd no doubt was, she
would not have been expecting him to be
in her garage. Which is exactly where I think he was, lying in wait. As soon as she exited her vehicle, he intended to subdue her. Then restrain her.
But she fought back with the strength of a thousand warriors, and from that moment, FD was reeling, panicking and improvising.
He may have intended to keep her alive long enough to get passwords, account numbers, whatever else he could pull from her.
Where he would have held her or ultimately murder her, I can only guess. He has access to so many places, doubled if KM was part of that step.
In water. In cement. In multiple locations.
It all fell apart when he left the bloodbath in the garage, took hours longer than planned, had no easy way to move her from her vehicle to the Tacoma (which may not have been in the original plan either). For sure, he didn't intend to transfer blood into PG's truck --
I think he may have intended to pass her to KM for "safe-keeping", may have intended to get back to 4 JC and perpetuate the office meeting alibi, to make it look like he and KM were together while KM was off doing whatever it was they conspired to do.
Whatever did happen at 80 MS, with a knife for cutting and ponchos, may have been part of the original plan or not.
But there's a long list of things that these three braintrusts didn't factor for, all of which incriminate them.
FD did only one smart thing. Diabolical as the rest, just smart from a self-protection standpoint -- IMO he enlisted KM and MT in ways that fully insured him from then turning on him. He made certain they were equally culpable and therefore can't turn on him without convicting themselves.
Which tells ME they're both far more involved than we can even imagine.
When LE executed the search warrants on 4 JC, I wavy to know if they found volumes of divorce papers. By my math, there should have been reams of them. Contested divorce, hundreds of motions.
If LE didn't find that, why?
I contend that that's what MT was burning. Because she couldn't help herself. She was so ecstatic to be done with the divorce, that burning it to the ground was her happy dance.
She couldn't contain her excitement. Same as at the Murders Eve banquet.
Getting JFd gone solved everything, in their minds.
Evil.
JMO