Honestly, I think at least part of his motive was that he couldn’t figure out how to tell his wife about the fraud case. He comes across as very arrogant and I don’t think he would have been able to stand the idea of having his wife think lesser of him or consider him a failure. How someone could think murder was better than insurance fraud, I have no clue but according to the podcast, he seemingly changed in the last 6 months before the murders. It sounded like the stress from the federal case may have caused depression and sent him down some strange mental rabbit hole of dark thoughts. It also mentioned that he had told the federal investigators that he was going to be gone a week for Thanksgiving, then would be back and would talk to them then, so he was likely feeling the pressure of that lie by mid December.
My question is, if we (hypothetically) accept the idea that he and his wife were talking about suicide around Thanksgiving, who bought the Christmas gifts and why?
Moo
