My sister believes our mother and her current husband colluded to have her father, mother's second husband, killed by sabotaging his personal, small engine plane. Our mother has been married three times and she is my half sister. I have put together different pieces of information related to my stepfather's death over the past 30 plus years; we were very close. I am eleven years older than she. My sister surprised me very much when asked if I thought how very convenient it was that her father had died 2 weeks after separating from our mother; he had documented the affair which started when Laura was about 1-2 years old, remaining in the house while he meticulously built a case that would have been very public and humiliating to my very narcissistic mother. So, after all the years of discussing it with only one person, relatively recently, I talked to her about it. She gave a set of details only she would have known given I left home much earlier than she did. Together, these sets of details built a stronger case for their, our mother and her current husband, possibly having been involved in his death. After all, they'd spent four years in a stand off, neither leaving to be at fault and have a better chance at custody of the child they had together. One other detail, my brother, less than two years older than me, confided in me right after our mother's marriage to her current husband with whom she engaged in at least a 4 year affair before marrying him 6 months after our stepfather died. Her third husband did not like us. He drank, actually, he was a drunk, though a wealthy drunk. He threatened my brother in a thinly veiled comment to the effect that he knew people in Louisiana that he could call anytime and ask they "target" someone, in other words put a hit out on. He added, "and that goes for that bit_ _ sister of yours. While we did not discussed this past my asking him if he felt the man was actually threatening him, and me; he didn't know, I have never forgotten the fear on my brother's face and the concern for me in telling me about it. My stepdad died when I was 16 yrs old. My sister was 5 yrs old. I did not live with my mother after she remarried, though my siblings did, but only until they were old enough to "escape." My full sister went to college at 16 yrs of age, having skipped a year of school, and married at 17. My brother left to join the Air Force at 17, in both instances, my mother signing for them to do so.
Both our mother and her husband have demonstrated the ability to cruelty, breaking the law, and our mother has always used men to hoist herself upward socially and financially. These are not reasonable or ethical people, though present themselves as church attending, upstanding citizens, friends with all of the right people. There are those who would NEVER dream of considering they would do anything deviant, much less murdering someone.
How likely or unlikely, given just this information, do you believe it is possible or probable they killed my stepdad by hiring someone to sabotage his airplane causing it to crash. The airplane, and bodies of he, his friend, and two sixteen year olds, were not found for six weeks. It was determined the engine was still running when the plane broke up on the ground. In 1974, this was considered "proof" enough of it being accidental, case closed. Currently, from what I have read, it is quite easy to sabotage a small, private airplane, and not only by causing engine failure. The same is not true, of course, of commercial airplanes. Our mother is the kind of narcissistic, to be kind, who would go a long way not to be "shamed" by a court battle over a child that she would most certainly lose due to many documented facts and witnesses. Would she have gone so far as killing in your gut feeling?
