“I’d expect the stories and documentation to have a more integrated, consistent appearance.”
Absolutely.
They went through all that effort and yet when Butter asks the Maui Police Chief about it, he admits that no one died in the plane crash. That kinda defeats the whole purpose of the exercise.
“the inconsistencies point away from conspiracy, not at it.”
They’re running the show, they could have said she died from anything they wanted. Why pick such an inconclusive diagnosis as arrhythmia? Drowning would have been absolutely consistent with the circumstances.
They did say she died from anythinq they wanted. Four alleqed eyewitnesses to the body came up with three and a half different (mostly mutually-exclusive) causes of death. (I say “a half” because maybe the Navy didn’t really mean to put 2 little boxes in the “air embolism” box of their SAR form...) And the other witnesses said to the media - BEFORE the autopsy - that they were surprised to hear Fuddy had died because the last they had seen of her, she was fine.
And THAT is why they couldn’t just qo with drowninq. The loose lips sank that ship.
I'd have picked myocardial infarction. A 65-year old woman who was not the picture of physical fitness endures the stress of a plane crash and then has to tread water amidst 5 foot waves. Who'd have questioned that?
But that's the sort of detail that could hashed out and resolved in the early Conspiracy Planning Meetings. Assuming, Loretta Fuddy would be in attendance, she could pick which way she preferred to die.
So why DID he admit that nobody died in the plane crash?