OutOfTheDarkness
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Deadly Encounters: True Crime Stories of Alberta
page 62...
"Had anyone seen a car resembling the Plett's two-tone green Pontiac? If not, had they noticed anything at all during the day that seemed in anyway unusual? No, was the consistent reply. No one had seen or heard anything out of the ordinary.
It was indeed strange, then that one of the women Jake questioned that night called police the next day. She had apparently forgotten having seen a car meeting the description of the Plett's being driven slowly down the road between her house and the acreage. She reported that there had been a man and a woman in the car and that the woman looked frightened.
The lady's motives for the call have never been clearly understood by authorities..."
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The book further states that MAP was only 5' 2" tall, 120 lbs. Not exactly a romantic match for a "rather large man".
In the same book, page 65, page 73, Mary Ann had told her husband that she did not like Cooper and felt extremely uneasy with him. She told him the client was in the habit of muttering to himself and occasionally seemed to be locked in an audible argument with himself.
That's quite a distinct description for someone to tell their husband if she's having an affair and trying to keep it from him. Why say anything at all and draw attention to the affair?
I also find it hard to believe that Mary Ann Plett fooled her friends, family and coworkers about an affair and her husband was also, after her death, able to fool his family, friends and all those veteran detectives into believing he was innocent and was able to carry on the charade throughout the search and the funeral without once bringing any suspicion on himself.
Jake also had to quit college, get a job and raise several children by himself. Not exactly an end result I'd want to end up with.
Anyone suggesting that the investigators were thorough enough, that they knew better, that they were beyond reproach and could not be fooled or dissuaded during the years Pickton was operating, sure are wearing egg on their face now.
Around the world daily, women are murdered by their spouses because of a perceived insult like infidelity... without the husband giving a second thought to the future consequences.
How else would she describe the man she was potentially having an affair with? Attractive? Smart? Intelligent? Funny? "Yes Honey, he wants to meet tonight and will only talk to me at the office. There is nothing strange about that, he's just a fat, ugly weird man." I guarantee you, any man in a momogamous relationship, even in today's world, would be a bit suspicious... let alone in the 70's in a strict Christian household.
A year later, he had a new woman, was writing a book and probably made some money off of the story.
Does that make him guilty? No... but there is no sign of innocence there either.