If John Ramsey received the bonus as stock options 10 months prior then it would have been in the company quarterly reports which are publicly accessible documents.
It wouldn't have been private information at all. Claims that nobody could have known the amount except John and Patsy would be specious.
It's just a weird coincidence (or the killer was watching and planning this crime for a while).
The company quarterly report was Lockheed's. There aren't any separate items of minute details like that for the smallest subsidiary.
Besides, the value changed on a daily basis. That just happened to be what it was on December 25, 1996. It was the cops who figured it out.
No way Karr went out and got a Lockheed annual or quarterly report and somehow figured up what percentage of a bonus based on which reporting of sales revenue or net profit John might have gotten and then looked up the stock prices for that day and figured it up. No way *anybody* did that.