Thanks for the link. Authorities can be wrong. Quote from the article:
"A Fallbrook
man charged with murder in the killing of his business partner and the partner's family owed $30,000 to the victim, who
planned to fire him,
authorities said in court records released Wednesday.
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"A third business associate,
Daniel Kavanaugh, also
told investigators that McStay, who owned a water features business, was planning to fire Merritt, authorities said in 305 pages of search warrants and affidavits filed in the case."
Ha, so the authorities trusted the words of Dan Kavanaugh, the one that JM was buying out, that JM was planning to fire CM. As today's testimony showed, JM and CM were embarking on a new business venture together and there was no sign, reason or likelihood that JM was planning to fire CM.
Authorities trusted DK. Not impressed.
"Investigators also found quotes "to do with remorse, forgiveness and murder" while serving a search warrant at Merritt's home in October 2014, the documents show.
The papers don't detail what the quotes were."
Without context and details, there are infinite possible scenarios about those quotes.