But his work was going to take him to the east coast and he connected there instead for the vehicle. This wasn't just a change in the purchase of a vehicle, it was a CHANGE IN PLANS and an effort to hide his west coast location of the months previous. Was his original connection in Joisey with Osbourne or someone else? I think someone else (nearby).
Yes, the white Lincoln Continental that Muhammad wanted to buy in Tacoma... No one ever said, by the way, that $2500 was too steep for that car. Salesmen just 'assumed' that was the reason because after 3 visits in 3 days, the pair stopped coming by. Then they almost immediatly surfaced again in Nu Joisey.
Muhammad came into $3000 using his gun on September 5th... more than enough to pay the 'real price' of a souped up car with a BIG ENGINE and BIG TRUNK days later. I've seen a few pictures of the Caprice too. It's not in bad shape as some reports would claim.
I'd guess their accomplices in NJ were one or more of ( Neil Osbourne, Walford(Wally) Osbourne, or Peter Gianquinto). I'd bet Walford is the smarter of the two Osbourne brothers, since he knew not to personally get tied in with the sniper pair. They probably had an accomplice in the Camden MVS office as well.
Peter Gianquinto is an interesting suspect too because he was a close associate in crime with Muhammad in Antigua. Gianquinto soured his relationship with his landlord by putting up five 'foreign students' in his apartment in Joisey, and also moving out suddenly, right after M & M were arrested, trashing the place. Gianquinto had multiple ID's and was arrested with welfare papers he could only have obtained fraudulently from NY. He was probably scamming multiple state's welfare rolls.
The OWNER of the All Nations cuisine in Camden swears that Muhammad and Malvo were there 3 or 4 times in one week in AUGUST, and they were not there in September. That would put them in Jersey both BEFORE AND AFTER the Tacoma car-shopping event. I think they had accomplics on both coasts helping them find the 'perfect sniper car'.