The state medical examiner was on LKL one night several months ago and said he estimated that it could have taken Matthew as long as 20 minutes to die.
I don't know how long she had been doing the check kiting, or how long the Nigerian scams take to cycle through before being revealed. Seems like it wouldn't take long to find out the original checks are no good.
Mary said they had been having financial problems and/or marital problems for the past year and half - and that they had also had some marital problems the first 5 years of their marriage. Now, this is the admitted liar con artist talking, you realize.
However, the TBI agent said there had been a questionable check for $4800 in December 2005. That was 3 months before the murder. Supposedly, she was putting some of this scam money into their joint accounts (not all, lol - some was going to her *own*) - didn't Matthew wonder where it was coming from, when she had no job yet and was allegedly just going back to college?
(I said allegedly because I figured all along we would discover she wasn't enrolled at all - but I was wrong about that. Somewhere along the way, a reporter found someone who was in one of her classes this semester, so she really was showing up. I guess right after she would make her deposits in her Henderson bank account.)
However, I can imagine people were calling him from the bank when checks starting bouncing and him confronting her about what was going on.