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.
No, the stock options as bonuses have to be publicly reported. It maybe obscure to the average citizen, but that kind of stuff is standard news fodder for stock analysts and could have been reported any number of trade publications.
It it was not a secret or private information. Did the stock value even flucuate between the 1st and 4th quarters of 96 that would have substantially changed it's rounded out value of $118,000?
I don't think the writer of the note pulled the number out of a hat, but I also don't think it indicates Ramsey involvement either. Only that the note writer/killer had been studying their family and may have used the number to indicate exactly that.
The killer may not have been somebody the Ramseys knew, but it most certainly was somebody who had gotten to know them.