Been reading the latest T Bar money discussions. Nice to see rational civilized discussion between smart people without personal attacks when they disagree.
Long ago, when thinking out of the box, and trying to make all the pieces fit I came up with a theory. I don’t think this is what actually happened, but it would explain a lot.
The Ingram parents find the loot. All of it. It’s very damaged, wet worn, etc. It doesn’t matter whether it was with Cooper’s body or not in this hypothetical scenario. They don’t know if it has value, whether they can keep it, whether the government or insurance companies will claim it and they want to figure out the best way to proceed.
They decide to do a test using their child Brian as the “finder”” of a portion of the loot. They go for an unlikely nighttime picnic in the middle of winter at T Bar. They either bury the roughly $5800 of test loot that night or earlier when Brian wasn’t there. His father very subtly directs him to a spot to prepare for a campfire and Brian “accidentally” finds the buried money. The test has begun.
I don’t think this is what actually happened, but I thought I’d put it out there to simulate some further out of the box thinking.
