Great to see you back CC!
I have always thought there was at least one accessory, perhaps largely in part because the police did mention so early on that an accomplice was a real possibility, and also the sightings of two cars. I now wonder if they may have said this to "encourage" GBC to come clean - if there was a possibility his family may be wrongly implicated, it might freak him out and force him to tell the truth? There was a lot of cat and mouse going on with the police/media/GBC in those weeks leading up to the arrest. Hopefully we will find out more about this.
Also, I am getting a bit more inclined to believe that GBC may have carried out the murder on his own, now that we know (allegedly) that the body may have been thrown over the bridge. To me this reeks of a desperate and alone (and stupid) GBC, freaking out and needing to do the deed quickly. If his father was involved at this point, I think it would have been planned and hidden a bit better. This is only my opinion and thoughts.
I too have been wondering why he dumped Allison off the bridge, if indeed he really killed her for the insurance money.
He needed a body to claim, so there would have been hundreds of better places to leave her, where she could have been found.
If it was a pre-meditated murder, I keep thinking he would have thought up a better scenario. eg she fell down stairs, started to fit, next thing her eyes rolled back in her head, I called an ambulance but she was dead.Sobbing, (baseball bat hidden) and fingers crossed no-one picks that the injuries are not quite a match.
Another scenario could have been, suffocate her, throw her down a hole, announce the gone for a walk didn't return theory, and in a few days or a week, the body is found down a hole, and who suspects she was suffocated first and didn't die from the fall and exposure.
These would be easily formed plans where the outcome ( a dead wife and an insurance payout) was easily achieved.
His scenario however, reeks of panic and non-planning.
-Injuries sustained by him that scream violent altercation
-body dumped in haste where it may never have been found (unless he tipped off the canoeist)
-a heap of muddled up stories- went for a walk, was depressed, maybe suicided but no note and no car, phone etc,...
As far as pre-mediated goes, it seems like GBC did plan to kill Allison at some time, but that the night it occurred took him by surprise.
My guess is a domestic dispute escalated and he decided to just do it then and there.
I agree, if NBC was involved in the deed in any way before the event, the planning would have been better.
If he was called on in the middle of the night though, to help dispose of a body, and it was all a shock to him, I could see that a poorly thought out dumping plan may have been arrived at.
I cant say at this satge whether I think he was involved or not, but I'm thinking yes, but not until late, and that there was no real plan.
Alioop, can you remind me, do the police need to prove motive or does that just help build their case, if he can be shown to have had a motive?
I know he was in dire financial straits, but the motive for me seems thin if her body was so unlikely to have been found, therefore not allowing him to claim for many, many years.
MOO as always