How long have they been separated and why? An affair or what and who? One of them buys a home right down the street for her - ok, maybe for the sons but still. One son is an adult and the other will be in a couple years so how big is this place? Who’s name is on the house? Were they planning a divorce or was it just not living in the same house? She could have at least acted distraught so smells like a very expensive divorce was on the horizon. Ya know, if I was so angry as to hire a hitman, I’d be happy to wash my hands of him at the lawyer’s office with a few million in his second offer because you can only spend so much in a lifetime. Done and done asap. Why have even a whisper of suspicion on me but that’s just me.
The sons would get the most in the end so maybe the wife isn’t a suspect.
While spousal murder can have money involved—at the end of the day it is very very personal—filled with emotion (hate) and often revenge for wrongs done.
You cannot reason your way through that.
That is why I was amused by comments some folks made like “violence solves nothing”.
Violence is usually not a rational response—it is an emotional one.
Humans are not computers.