Based upon the family’s strident objections, I’m guessing the wife was promiscuous.
There is a distinct possibility the husband taking the kids into the wilderness was:
a. the son providing an opportunity for his father and wife to have a tryst that went bad.
b. the son was weak and couldn’t kill his wife but the father could. The trip was a diversion to get the kids out of the house while the mother was being murdered.
If the father is a voyeur, it’s unlikely he has the courage to act out.
But what do I know, I’m just another person on the Internet who has an opinion.
Since the father lived in Washington, and the Son/DIL lived in UTAH when she disappeared, is there any proof that the Father(in law) was anywhere near UTAH at the time and had the opportunity to murder her? I think this is a key issue if we are to consider the father in law as the murderer.
Likely just about as much as the rest of us.
I’m just another person on the Internet who has an opinion.
And we take those opinions, mix them up together, sort out the wheat from the chaff, and come up with the most likely 'truth'. Two heads are better than one, and hundreds of heads are a wealth of input. That's what this open forum discussion board (FREE REPUBLIC) is all about.
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Based upon the family’s strident objections, I’m guessing the wife was promiscuous.
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I don’t think so. Her family did admit to her being sexually active as a teen, but her and her husband are LDS and she was what they called ‘active’ (believing, attending church member) and they have strict rules guarding sexual behavior. It is not uncommon for LDS teens to go through a ‘wild stage’ and then go through a lengthy ‘repentance process’ (and it is a real process) about the age of 18-19 either to go on an LDS mission or to get married in an LDS temple.
I think the dad is lying. IIRC he did have an alibi for the time of the disappearance.
What has been reported is that Josh (hubby) was controlling and abusive (although the examples I saw in the articles are not that uncommon in Utah/LDS culture), and that he threatened to take the kids and she was wanting a divorce. It is more likely that hubby went nuts when he found out about the divorce and killed her. This whole thing with his dad smells more like a setup for reasonable doubt if this goes to trial and to make the hubby look better.
Why would dad WANT to; if he's bangin' it?