I agree with you this was many moons ago, and yes, it seems he turned his life around in a very positive way. He had the fortitude to work hard in not only getting his degree, but excelling in his field. His own business, patents, etc. Coming from a family in the scientific field, I know he had many barriers to jump. Picture of a hard working, well rounded, intelligent man with children.
Still, the theft, assault, and burglary tells me of a twinge of violence. That being said, with all the accomplishments he has made, I truly hope he just had a moment of bad judgement.
My concern is how these two---seemingly different minded people came to know each other and just how close of buds were they? People do not let a casual acquaintance share their home, especially if you have children coming over in visitation. He allowed a person to bring a weapon into his house. Not a hunting weapon, but a Glock. (Why didn't he ask CC to keep the weapon at his business--a likely place for a Glock--or did he know he couldn't?) He did nothing in notifying anyone CC was on the hunt for RA with a weapon as a ride-a-long; and, did not ask CC to leave his residence in February when this incident occurred, but in fact, the day after RA was reported missing. CC had to be in some sort of questionable mental state to feel he had to tote the gun along; albeit to stalk.
Again, I will say, I hope he just had a lapse in good judgement for a proven intelligent man, but do wonder how close and what kind of things these two had in common. Was he another victim of CC's cunning and deceitful ways, and just being victimized too, possibly; but why does an astute, promising scientist let a car mechanic reside in his home? What is the connection? Not likely the same circle of friends and associates. Not accusing nor judging anyone, but certainly curious in the oddity of it.
The only thing I have noticed is that they both have made comments on various political/social stances.
Please pardon if I make little sense or type badly. Functioning on 4 hrs sleep and 18-hr work day, but want to stay caught up on this before I get a wild hair to drive south maybe next weekend.
THAT is indeed the $64,000 question. How do they happen to know each other? Maybe CC his mechanic. Maybe they attend same church.
However, I'm not ready to beat RB(??) up because he didn't have total foresight or clairvoyance. He must have known enough to figure out that something wasn't right since he was the one who locked that gun up. But unless you have witnessed violence against others, who among us wants to believe that a friend, roommate, whatever -- is a potential killer?
My gut is he GOT IT at soon as he found out Rachael had gone missing and wanted no part of that trouble in his life. You know -- that light bulb moment you talked about?
I ain't no dummy (mostly), but I have trusted people who it turned out didn't deserve it. Thought my best friend was "the" one and got a rude awakening, but not all at once, and still wanted to believe he wasn't a turd until there was nothing human left to hang a hat on.
Decent humans (even the imperfect ones) tend to be trusting more than not. Heck, my father could be a true a-hole sometimes and prone to violence when drinking, but that man would give a stranger the shirt off his back, places to live, cars to drive. And they ripped him off more than not. But still he trusted. Cursed them, but trusted.
It's very easy for any of us to point fingers "after the fact" and ask why didn't you do something? I don't know this guy from Adam, and yes, court records show some propensity for violence. Perhaps what he recognized in himself he finally saw in CC. Just a guess of course.
I just don't think as long as he and the seller of the Glock are not charged with anything, they deserve benefit of doubt. In wrong place, wrong time. Made mistake to deal with CC. Live and learn. Don't need to be oversleuthed, but if he gets hauled in and arrested, you can be sure I'll be sleuthing snot out of that one.
Moscow's not that big, and I still have a contact or two there. But I sure wish somebody would weigh in on how those seemingly two dissimilar men get hooked up.
meantime, I'm trying to stay focused on what CC did to Rachael, and if we assume he did her in, where he would have left her.
I wish to to heaven all her friends who swear she would never, ever take off were so wrong. That she hopped a bus to somewhere to get away from him (truly fearing for her life), knowing that her boys were safely with their father.
However, she drove to Moscow that fateful Friday night, and IMO she was not the one who drove the WGMPSUV (white-GM-product-SUV) back to N Lewiston and happened to leave it at a bus stop.
So who did? CC most logical conclusion. When? Sometime that weekend, before it was found. Was she ever in it after her drive to Moscow? Maybe not. Could have offed her there, tossed her into one of his vehicles, dumped her in the boonies or not-so-boonies. Then returned to shop and at some point returned WGMPSUV to Lewiston and hopped bus back up to Moscow.
What did LE see, if anything, on those surveillance tapes from Dyna Mart? Did they take possession of any vehicles from his shop for forensics? Did CC use the vehicle of a customer to dispose of her, and that customer picked up their car Monday or Tuesday, none the wiser?
God, but I wish I could back and tell her to stay AWAY from him completely. Do not take your car to him to have fixed. He manipulated that, sure as the sun shines in August. She was broke, he busted out the window, and in desperation she took it there for free labor.
Why, why, why do women go back to, stay with, or stay in touch with abusers? What does it take for them to wake up? I will never understand that. Man ever hits me, he gets a 1941 toaster in the head (if you own an old one, you get their usefulness as a weapon -- they are heavy and don't bend).
Also -- do you have links please to RB's remarks? I am curious, though in no way ready to go chasing after or convicting him. Thanks much.
