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I had heard that he was also offered something like $10 million to relinquish his custody of her to her parents, but he refused. If his was a financial motive, why would he turn down that kind of money?

It was $1 million. I can think of two reasons he would turn it down.

1) He tried to murder her in 1990 (and possibly again since then while she was in the hospice) and he's afraid that with any slight recovering she will finger him. $1 million won't pay for a life in prison.

2) He is surely looking at selling book and movie rights. Packing up and walking away with just $1 million, certainly isn't as lucrative as the advance on his book "Death is a Wonderful Thing" -- not to mention the made-for-TV-movie "You're In My Way Terri"

If that was true, then as was mentioned in #40, he'd be just as fearful of an autopsy.

There was nothing stopping him from writing a book while Terri was alive, and I'm certain that, given all the notoriety that has already surrounded this case, there has to be a TV mogul out there somewhere willing to offer him a movie deal whether she's alive or dead. He could just as easily have had all that and the $1 million.