These roads even have switchbacks and steep grade warnings.
Well I really don't get it then. However, if he was a major biker and athlete perhaps. I have a niece that is and she does triathalons and things, is that the one where you like bike, swim, run for miles on end, etc.? I may have the name wrong. She has very expensive bikes and I thinks he could do such but maybe not, I can only imagine the terrain you are talking of.
And who takes a strenuous bike ride to go commit suicide? So he hauled the bike, parked the car and got on the bike. One would think the brother would have known the bike was missing although maybe LE never shared that part but one would think brother would know John had one and did a lot of biking and had a major bike.
He'd have had to have taken the gun on the bike. Was this place special somehow? WHY bike to it anyhow, he HAD the car. He coudln't seriously think he'd never be found imo because he was. It's either really fishy and not a suicide or he wanted to leave a mystery? But in a way it is not a mystery. Man drives and parks car, gets out bike. Bikes for miles and that's who he got there and killed self. Seemingly planned if he took the gun HOWEVER maybe he took one for safety and when he got to where he was going he then decided to kill self. Doubtful, probably planned the way it all looks.
IF it is suicide.
I can't recall, we don't know that they found the gun do we, HAVE they? and was it HIS?
He was found in the water right? Also weird or not something one hears of much, shooting oneself/suicide going out into the water. Did he think perhaps people would think murder? One wouldn't think so if they found HIS gun.
I keep thinking even though it's changed some, it used to be almost all life insurance policies would not pay out on suicides. Some do and some don't these days I believe but many probably still exist that don't. I believe.
He had how many kids and with the main family/ex was just ordered to pay bucco bucks in support, etc. I don't care what his brother said, the man one time acts like he knows how well off John was and how much he made at work and this and that then on the next hand seems not to know sh*t. Sorry to him, he lost a brother, but just saying. None of us know every single facet of a sibling's life and especially if they want to hide something. I also can't help but wonder if he really wanted to get married and didn't feel pressured and another kid on the way, etc. I mean he wasn't that happy if he could do this. Recently engaged. And then if you break off the relationship, there's another support battle or at least he'd be ordered to pay for that child too.
It probably was suicide but I think lots of questions remain to be answered. And I do think if it was, he was maybe hoping SOMEHOW it would be thought to be murder for insurance purposes? The gun would be one thing that would give more than one answer imo. Do we know a thing about the gun and did they find it? I seem to recall they never did or if they did have never said so. We didn't know about the bike either.
It isn't impossible someone else still could have did this but it would mean they knew of the bike (and maybe he kept it in the car), forced him to get into his own car and drive them or he met with them. But they'd have had to have taken him and the bike OUT of his car and drive him to this lake area with another vehicle, shoot him and stage the bike. They need to find the gun.
That scenario seems very unlikely but your description of this route also sounds daunting. When did the man even get time to bike. Again to listen to his brother all he did was work and then had all these kids too. And a pregnant gf, etc.
And perhaps he never meant to hide anything and just picked this bike ride, this spot and this way to suicide.
It seems most likely having talked it out as I haven't had time to really do that and think it out that it is suicide IF the bike his his and can be proven and if the gun is found and is also his. Assuming it was one shot of course to the side of the head most likely?
The whole thing about the kidnapping and the Bitcoin and such I still have to wonder at. He may simply have been drama filled when needing out of something and a story. And of course it is known of by almost no one except for one, the brother. The kidnapping I mean. He also made that statement or two to his brother that did sound as if he was thinking of if he died... And brother imo wanted to make it know or point out he said he was to be in charge of whatever but I'm almost going to guess that was not set up and may be why he was pushing that. Top things off with they had had investors mad at them and more.
I wonder if they did any tox on him. They should have. And what the results were. I mean there are some drugs if you want some burst to bike mountains (hills or whatever)...
I'm sorry for his family/ies/kids, parents, brother, etc. I'd think they expect more answers though because I know I do.
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