Very sad to hear this. Poor woman. Unfortunately, abused women leave these kinds of messages with friends and family. All too often, it ends up being true. Sounds like LE is taking this very seriously.
Reminds me of Nicole Simpson.
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Conversely:
“"She told me that she had asked for a divorce from Ryan right before he went for deployment. And there were all kinds of problems from the minute she asked for the divorce, including the kids being put into the middle."”
So, re: the kids “being put in the middle”, this sounds like possibly there may have been conflict re: custody.
So, IF this is the case, then why would he risk harming the kids? If he wanted them? The above statement could in fact be his best defense.
Again, unless he’s of the mindset that “if I can’t have them nobody can”, which would lend itself to a CW/FA type of mindset. I’m not ready to make that leap yet, however, as I mentioned above, we saw how valuable Shanann’s friends were in her case as far as their instincts and involvement with investigators.
Again, to accept that her husband initiated her death, then that is to assume he was willing for the kids to be dead/injured as well. The only thing I can think of is if he (or be ordered a hitman) to take a shot when the vehicle was stopped which does not appear to be the case and even if then this would mean having their mother murdered in front of his kids.
To pull off a shooting all these hours away...yes it could be done, gps tracker, following her, etc...I still think the possibility still strongly exists that this could be a coincidence with the husband and this shooting was random. I know about abuse victims trying to escape and the timing is uncanny should all this be true what the friend is saying. I don’t disbelieve her. But this does not mean both things could not exist, a tragic coincidence.
But what a coincidence huh? If she was indeed literally running away to a friend’s house at that moment...we’ve seen some crazy coincidences on WS. Yes there’s Occam, and “if it walks like a duck...”, I’m just saying considering the shooting violence in this day and age as well as other shootings on either sides of this location, I don’t think a random shooting can be ruled out yet, especially because the kids were in the car, not to mention this has so many similarities to many random shootings I’ve studied in other cases.
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