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There's a lot that we don't know. We are reading a news story. Not reading a police report. We have no idea what the condition of the bodies were, and what positions they were in. Lab work from the coroner would shed more light. Or witnesses and their testimony. You never assume anything with a mystery like this. You just look for evidence, and follow where it may lead. Was there a love triangle? Did they have financial difficulties? Did they have any enemies?
I recall a case where investigators were summoned for a death bed confession. A woman confessed to killing her husband - over 50 years prior. Her husband's death was ruled an accident. He went for a hike, and when he didn't return home, the wife reported her husband missing. A search was conducted. They found the body. Investigators closed the case as it appears that he slipped, and fell several hundred feet. As he tumbled down the side of a cliff, his body was met with hard rocks, tree trunks, et cetera. Signs of trauma all consistent with falling hundreds of feet down the side of a cliff. He was well liked, stable at work, finances were in order, and nobody could link him to anything unusual. He didn't even have life insurance, and the widow had to pay out of pocket for an unplanned funeral. Over 50 years later, the widow confesses that she was hiking with him, struck his head from behind with a rock, and pushed him off the cliff. Her motive? She just didn't want to be married to him anymore. She felt trapped in the life of being a wife. She had to get out. Divorce wasn't an option......because they were Catholic. What part of her religion made murder okay?
I recall a case where investigators were summoned for a death bed confession. A woman confessed to killing her husband - over 50 years prior. Her husband's death was ruled an accident. He went for a hike, and when he didn't return home, the wife reported her husband missing. A search was conducted. They found the body. Investigators closed the case as it appears that he slipped, and fell several hundred feet. As he tumbled down the side of a cliff, his body was met with hard rocks, tree trunks, et cetera. Signs of trauma all consistent with falling hundreds of feet down the side of a cliff. He was well liked, stable at work, finances were in order, and nobody could link him to anything unusual. He didn't even have life insurance, and the widow had to pay out of pocket for an unplanned funeral. Over 50 years later, the widow confesses that she was hiking with him, struck his head from behind with a rock, and pushed him off the cliff. Her motive? She just didn't want to be married to him anymore. She felt trapped in the life of being a wife. She had to get out. Divorce wasn't an option......because they were Catholic. What part of her religion made murder okay?