I agree with you Alethea, but I wonder if the someone who might have been taking control was doing it for the Millard's or to them?
I know the alternative theories thread is locked, but I still wonder if WM was being pressured by outside forces when he died. Perhaps someone here can help me, I have been wondering about the MTO certificate cancelation and if there was an ulterior motive to shutting it down. If planes were flying in from around the world to be serviced and repaired at the hanger with no passengers to screen, how thoroughly would customs inspect each aircraft, or would they have to be searched by customs agents at all without there being any passengers and just housing trusted crew members who have a different screening process already? If customs just gave the planes coming in for maintenance and repairs a cursory look over, I could see that being very attractive and immeasurably valuable to OC. WM could have been pressured from OC to let them use the hanger for the purposes of international smuggling, and either the pressure could have been too much and suicide seemed the only escape, or he could have been killed to eliminate his objections and at the same time help to keep the young new owner in fear for his own life should he not want to play along. They could have even shot WM in the eye to match DM's profile picture, as an additional threat, meaning play along or we can make you look guilty. DM could have then decided that his only escape from the situation would have been to cancel the MTO certificate and scrap the whole hanger plan and try to salvage what was left of his family fortune for the 20 cents on the dollar AS warned him it would return. Then, in this scenario, OC would be looking for a way to get back in control. Killing DM would not likely have accomplished this, because likely the remaining relative would have taken over and they would have had to start their intimidation all over again. It would be more effective to have DM arrested and kept in a controlled situation and have some of the evidence of his supposed guilt to be left on the doorstep of the next CEO as a warning: 'Play along and your son lives, but blow this again and it will get worse, and don't forget, we know where you live, too'. It could explain why DM is not even considering asking for bail, and why, even if he knew who did it, why he would not tell for fear for his mothers life, and also why he would feel remorseful for TB's murder. It would also explain why TB's body was found on DM's property, why the truck was at MB's house, and it could explain why the incinerator either was not used or was not used to completely obliterate all traces of the body, and why he didn't just dump ashes out of a plane like DM has the resources to do. It would also explain why TB's phone wasn't turned off until about 40 minutes after he left home and why TB's phone was found so close to his house despite the 40 minute absence (if the test drive was a one way trip to Brantford, and then they parted ways and TB continued home alone, and was waylaid by someone else when he was almost there). It would also explain why DM didn't properly cover his tracks like he could have in the days before his arrest, why no friends or family are speaking out (in fear), it even explains why he smiled at SB, because really, if he was just a psychopath, he would have gone back and eliminated that witness without a second thought as well. This is the only theory I have been able to come up with that seems to fit all the mysterious pieces of the puzzle so far, but please feel free to poke holes in it.