First off, this is the 1st I've heard about the possibility of Jake posting from Dana's Facebook account that night. The Facebook post to BJM asking her what she was doing there on UHR that night.
Jake trying to bring suspicion on BJM as if she was over there on the night of the murders.
Well this can be debunked, the Wagners are shortsighted to say the least. All BJM had to do was show she was somewhere else that night, claim to have not been over there that night, to have been home instead etc...
And what happens then? Well, it gives more fuel to the fire that the Wagner's were manipulating the crime scenes.
Secondly, it makes no sense Jake was feeding LE false information the very first hours.
How would Jake know anything about it? The Wagners had to pretend to be fast asleep in their beds that morning not knowing anything until later on when they were up starting their day and someone called them.
They had to act like they had no idea what the heck was going on.
I think this is the narrative they kept until maybe Jake's first interview a month after the murders in late May of 2016 when he was probably asked who might have done it. At that point he maybe let loose on the Manleys.
BJM was asked how much money she was paid to kill her family right away in the first 24 hours, LE suspected her because she found the crime scenes not because of what Jake said. I do not think Jake talked with BCI until they initiated their first conversation with him.
The thing about BCI telling her they thought she was at Chris Sr's earlier than she said? Could be smoke and mirrors. Made up. LE can lie to the hills to get suspects to talk.
The James Manley texting Jake at 2:00am? Could be made up BS. Never underestimate BCI and what they will say to try to get confessions.
Interesting argument, but I still think Jake was planting false info in those early hours.
He assumed (correctly) that all he had to do was provide similar "tips" to LE to point them towards the Manleys.
How else did LE decide to pounce immediately on BJM and JM? How did they come up with the accusation that someone had "paid" the Manleys to kill their family members? Within an hour or two of discovering the bodies, LE already had a "plot" they were working with to question and accuse the Manleys. It was more than making up a few lies, it sounded much more like a fully formed theory, JMO.
It would also be very characteristic (and accurate) for the Wagners to assume that LE would always take their word against that of the Manleys and Rhodens. Wagners lived "close to the cross", were upstanding citizens and all.
Wagners knew they could become suspects because of the custody fight between Jake and Hanna. LE knew about the fight that had happened in the weeks before, Len talked about it on worldwide live news coverage. Yet, LE immediately jumped on the Manleys and stayed there for the better part of a year.
Wagners had to come up with something that would direct attention to the Manleys. They had been surveilling the victims, they knew BJM was going to water the plants at CR1's every morning. They knew BJM would be the first to find the bodies. All it took was planting digital evidence on the victims' social media accounts and calling in a few tips to LE with a ready-made story.
Charlie Reader mentioned "All the lies they told us". Those lies started that morning and they probably came from Jake, possibly Angela. Later they came from the rest of the family, including FW. The Wagner lies are still being told today.
JMO
Also found it interesting that, when BCI was finally searching the Peterson Rd. farm and the used car business, Leonard Manley still didn't think LE was going to solve the case. He probably knew it was the Wagners, he just didn't think LE would accept that without a lot of evidence.
The following weekend, not much had changed
towards George's attorney.
