Originally posted by John G
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With such an odd case, one has to consider outlier theories to make the puzzle pieces fit. For example, perhaps the Johnstones caught wind from Julia of Wallace's journey and that whole theory is correct. There are of course a couple significant problems with that.
Another one that was bandied about...what if the call was a practical joke but someone at the chess club heard about it and Wallace's resolve to go and decided to swing by at 730 under some bogus pretense. Maybe as someone from the club, JW would let him in.
Do I think these 2 scenarios are what happened? No, Probably not, but I don't see how they are inferior to the Parry and an unknown accomplice theory.
The reason I keep coming back to Wallace himself is his odd behavior and the seeming (to me) coincidences surrounding him if he was truly not involved plus the seeming assasination aspect of this killing (no struggle, attacked from behind), but I do concede this has to be weighed against very tight timing and a baffling lack of distress or blood on him (plus hints that Parry made the call), which is why I would not convict even thought my intuition says WHW was guilty.
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