If AV's dad is pre-Alzheimers (not sure where that info came from) - then his behavior is pretty typical. One of my neighbors was being investigated for a DOJ job, and the investigator came to my home. My mother, an Alzheimer's patient, talked to the investigator. (This was before we had a clue what was going on with mom.) Questions he asked her about whether or not she knew if there had ever been any spousal abuse, et. turned into a phone call to me that "the police were just here and husband had beat the daylights out of wife."
Then somebody needs to tell Wendy Murphy and some of the other shriekers, because they seem to think the broom thing is a done deal, lol!