A snowman, actually. Unjustly labelled as "abominable" by my detractors.
But seriously, folks -- why is it so hard to throw things out for speculation here? I don't "think probably" that is how it was. I don't advocate extra marital sex during pregnancy. I think pregnant women are beautiful -- goddesses even -- and would be more likely to cheat "with" a pregnant woman than "on" one. I wouldn't do either one, anyway.
I am just trying to explore and verbalize some of the possibilities.
The "obvious" has been verbalized over and over again, with dittos all around. Doesn't anyone want to think about some of the less cut-and-dried scenarios that are consistent with the facts we know?
The Van Dams had much to hide, and lied to police at first. Everyone said "they are so unemotional, they are horrible." We now seem to think that was justified or excusable, or at least not proof of guilt. Lying and sleaziness doesn't make him guilty.
This woman was married to him for several years. If she didn't know anything about him at all, she at least had it figured out that he is a sneak and a liar and a con by now. So knowing that, how do you think she would react? I don't know, but "coniption fits" would only be expected if she had no idea that something like that was going on, something most of us seem to doubt. And I do know and have known more than one marriage with those attitudes and values. I don't now, and never have felt comfortable with those values, but neither am I comfortable with wife-killing. So, what I am comfortable with, and what I am used to and expect don't have much bearing on analyzing this case, do they?
I just think we could all avoid pouncing on anyone who "thinks aloud" about some of the possibilities here(especially when it's me). Scott may well have done it or had it done for him, but I don't know yet, and think we can all speculate as much as we want, and should keep our minds open to all of the possibilities until they are really ruled out.
There are others on this thread who seem to have some reason to believe that Scott punched her in the stomach and called her a fatty before he killed her. I really think that if you can let something like that pass without comment, you can consider some other, less imagination-based possibilities.