"The woman's friends and family have said that she had a trouble-some relationship with Javers and was trying to get him out of her home. In 1998, she filed a protection order against him, which she had dismissed after he was arrested for beating her and breaking her car windows"
I definitely think he had something to do with it. If she got him sent to jail, he was most likely mad about it. What is interesting is that when she she never returned from Walmart, he was left with her son....