They look like boxing gloves. The whole outfit is weird. Why would an unknown assailant break into an elderly woman’s house and take her out but steal nothing? No way this bumbling idiot put together a ransom note and a bitcoin account. It just looks pathetic.
I’ll probably be proven wrong later but I’m going with the theory that there never was a kidnapping. That’s either the son in law or some guy he hired to break in and grab Mom so it looks like an abduction and she just never gets found and the will gets read and everyone collects their inheritance. Mom is probably buried in the desert a few miles away.
She’d have to have been buried pretty deep for the buzzards not to catch the scent. Anytime there is a missing person, one thing to watch for is buzzards near the last place they were seen.
I'd have to know what the cops know about the son to lean towards him being involved. It just seems too risky for a supposedly intelligent person to contemplate, but who knows. I lean towards someone who heard a domestic worker say something about the woman and her daughter. They need to interview all the people who have been in the house over the past couple years. I heard they are doing that AND taking DNA. But I don't think it was an actual worker, I think they told someone. Sometimes hired help live in "communities" and word travels.
So many of my crime movies and tv series have a bumbling partner or someone hired to do something who messes it up and the smart guy has to cover it up.
My wife and I were among the beachgoers in Florida in 1998 held at gunpoint by a killer (oddly from Michigan where we lived).
He ended up grabbing another older man as hostage as the poor wife next to him slumped down in fear, and the killer took his car and escaped. Cops were afraid to intervene. Perp got taken later in a home invasion. Get this: At a concert later the next door neighbor to the home invasion couple said “The police misunderstood him. He talked nicely to the two of them and didn’t at all seem like a violent man.” Definite woke woman.
The killer had earlier used the same gun he held on my wife and myself and the people near us when he shot a woman through her bathroom window at home. He had sent his dimwit accomplice inside to rob the older lady who had earlier kindly hired them to do some work. They knew she owned a small business so preposterously assumed she took all the money home and kept it there in cash so must have a fortune to steal.
She had $20 in cash at home with her so they killed her.
The accomplice said “I seen him through the window, aiming at her. He was showing his teeth like he does when he’s laughing as he’s about to shoot somebody. He sees the humor in it. Then he shot her in the head.”