While I believe she may have been planning and preparing to leave JP, I certainly don't believe she thought she or the children were in immediate danger of any kind...her actions didn't present that at all. At the very least, all she had to do was pick up the phone and call her father or rent a car and take off with the kids to WA to her family. It wouldn't be the ideal situation, and would have been hard and tedious after the fact, but it could have be done. She had her SIL and Kiirsi as well to help and many stated they thought things within the marriage were better. She was going to the church counselor and trying to still make the marriage work...and giving JP an ultimatum and deadline until the following April. Her writings and "last will" found had been written more than a year before her disappearance. You don't give someone your in immediate fear of an ultimatium!! She was given very bad advise , imo. I can't stress that enough! In fairness to the "counselor" she too may have held back many of her fears and facts and didn't portray the full picture of the situation either because she was still wanting it to work.
I believe the story as it has evolved.... especially with all the media attention... is being viewed much different now than originally because of the final outcome. Even her father in the beginning didn't believe JP could harm her. Maybe a review is in order....especially for those that joined in much later. How different now the outlook of the situation vs at the beginning when we still have the same Susan missing, with the same things she had done and stated to them before December 7, 2009.
I'm not trying to diminish how sick and twisted JP and his father were, they were and are..but have to say it blew my mind only days...not a week, but days after JP and the boys deaths, THEN the media was pointing the finger directly at SP as her killer, when prior... always reporting that JP was the ONLY POI per LE. It was/is sensationalism at it's height and with emotions running very high it did it's job for many in turning their heads. Those documents will never be revealed IMO....and the same man who gave the bumbling, ridiculus, blue cap interview successfully pulled off the disappearce of his wife...beyond the intelligence and combined efforts of LE and the FBI. ; and Susan must have been holding back much information from her own family, her counselor and her dearest friends if in fear, because surely if she was and had told any of them...it would have been the first thing reported..it wasn't. That's the bottom line when we open our eyes...no matter how unbelievable. IMO.
