MS has spent something like a half-million dollars for legal help to kill Terri. For a man of modest means, that is an ASTOUNDING amount of money just to "carry out her wishes."
It doesn't make sense. He hates Terri. We know he expressed his real feelings for her by the DNR order, stealing her therapy money, stealing her wedding rings, refusing to give her medicine, denying her the Communion host, all that sort of thing. Not to mention screwing around with other women. In short, in the very kindest view, he has no love whatever for her, and has not loved her for many years.
Nor is he doing it to "honor" her "wishes" -- MS has no honor in him, and there isn't a scrap of evidence Terri had any such wishes. So, what else would motivate this extraordinarily expensive attack on her?
Could be hatred, could be some wish to finish his 1990 attack on her, could be fear of discovery of that attack if there's an autopsy. A profit motive doesn't seem to make sense because the effort to kill her gets increased even as the potential inheritance dwindles.
What am I missing? Is there something deeper going on here with this shady-looking Hospice business, the sealed medical and financial records, the parents' deaths...? We should get out our Hercule Poirot gray cells and brainstorm every avenue.
And could have been fear of her getting well enough to have talked about that attack. According to nurses' testimony, she was talking, she was improving, she was expressing herself...
Maybe that things have gone too far? If he were to divorce her now, he could be liable to pay all the money back to Terri that he spent on lawyers. And there is the matter of fierce pride, revenge, and winning imo.
A profit motive doesn't seem to make sense because the effort to kill her gets increased even as the potential inheritance dwindles.
That's partly where Felos comes in to play. He found another landmark case with Terri that he can add to his resume. I have no doubt that part of the reason that MS and Felos argued so vehemently to keep Terri's image out of the spotlight is so that they can profit from her "death with dignity". Think of the book and movie deals. Felos is partially responsible for continually egging Michael on in this quest for fame and power (and money).
The very fact that Felos came in to the Schiavo case at precisely the time he did, just begs to have the whole thing looked at closely by the authorities, especially those who might look into the hospice issues going on. Hospice pays for Terri's care for some three years. Not only is it against the rules for Terri to be admitted into the hospice, the likelihood that anyone would be allowed to live there "rent free" for three years, much less six months, is unheard of!
Felos and Jodi probably both know enough to blackmail Michael, and both would stand to lose a whole lot of money if Michael ever loses guardianship. Michael may not have much money to his name, but he's given away a lot of money which doesn't belong fully to him; a divorce would probably demand that that money be repaid.
Could it be pressure from the new woman in his life?
By 1995, Michael was in love with and living with another woman, whom he had been seeing for about two years. They would eventually have a child, even though Michael stayed legally married to Terri.
http://www.evelynmartens.ca/en-newsday-030414.html
According to this article he would have been seeing Jodi in 1993...the year he collected the money and ordered a DNR order on Terri's charts. He took small steps towards Terri's death for a few years. Was it mounting pressure from Jodi that caused him to seek out Felos? They had been living together for a couple of years and most of the money was still there, but Terri just wouldn't die. When Felos entered the picture Michael's engagement was annouced, people started dying and the money soon disappeared. Love and money can be a deadly combination...