[Plummz]

Possible scenario - Edmonds, or someone else, was blackmailing the Smarts about the gay business, they got sick of paying, saw a kidnapping/ransom as the next step.

[EnquiringMind]

Plummz wrote:
Possible scenario - Edmonds, or someone else, was blackmailing the Smarts about
the gay business, they got sick of paying, saw a kidnapping/ransom as the next
step.


Could be. And maybe the Smarts ran out of money. NE story says Smarts were about to sell their large home and move the entire family into a small ski cabin in the mountains.