In an earlier thread I made these posts -
I am currently pondering the logic behind Lori and Chad going to Hawaii to get married, coming back and then returning to Hawaii.
and
they made a rental application on Kauai between Nov 7th-12th, and then backed out and returned to the mainland mid-Nov. It does sound as if they had plans to live there, but it also sounds as if something might have needed attending to back in ID.
Then IP's notes stated this -
"When Melani began sharing all of these things with me, I tried to keep an open mind. I'd only met her 4 days previous, but felt very comfortable around her.
"Upon first meeting Chad and Lori, I didn't get a bad impression of them, but they did seem different.[...] I didn't give them much thought as they said they were planning on taking off and that I'd be taking the reigns concerning care of Melani. They said they'd be going to Hawaii and invited me to come visit some time."
NP's email said this -
"basically on their wedding night she laid out the whole cult thing (but didn't say it was a cult) ..."
Interesting dates from timeline:
Oct 28th - Melani signed ID lease (same day Chad and Alex moved children's bikes into storage)
Nov 4th - Melani moved to ID
Nov 5th - Lori and Chad married in Hawaii
mid-Nov - Lori and Chad returned to ID
Nov 24th - Lori and Chad's last visit to storage
Nov 26th/27th - welfare check, lies, leaving, and search warrants - Alex's apartment already cleared.
Nov 29th - Alex married ZP
Nov 30th - Melani married IP
Dec 1st - Chad and Lori returned to Hawaii
Dec 2nd - IP spoke with his mother after NP called her. NP had spoken with BB.
Dec 3rd - Melani's 5 hour interview with LE.
Dec 8th - IP texted NP and said her uncles (Alex and Chad?) are telling her to move to Ammon
Dec 11th - Tammy's body exhumed
Dec 12th - Alex's death.
I'm quite satisfied now with the benefit of having seen IP's notes, that the reason Chad and Lori returned to ID was to tie up loose ends regarding Melani and Alex, in other words, assigning them minders. I do not think the marriages were anything to do with spousal privilege. IMO the only things that motivate C&L are money and power and control. IMO the sentence about taking the reins concerning care of Melani can only have a sinister connotation. Lori does not care about people; in this context it is about having people in place who will prevent the outflow of damaging information for "the mission". The only thing I can think of right now, if IP was not involved and had no knowledge, is that he was also being minded. Put simply, that leaves only one figure, Z. And Alex did die (following 'tips', if IP is correct). And it explains how it happened with Chad and Lori being in Hawaii. No wonder Z was at the custody hearing, with absolutely no continuing family ties, unless she does have family ties to IP and we don't yet know it... ?
One other thing - why would Melani need a 'carer' if she knows nothing? She could have been brought into the cult for BB's life insurance money without knowing it but how does that tally with her asking BB for a divorce in June? It may be relevant that the attempted murder of BB happened only weeks before the divorce was finalized. Perhaps they would have got the insurance money anyway via her children.
moo