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Douglas also concluded that it was unlikely that anyone would solve the case, with the most likely scenario based on the evidence, Douglas speculated, that Joan Bennett was killed by an inexperienced young criminal who was sexually obsessed with children and frail women and/or women. or that he wanted to extort money from his wealthy family, and between Luthor's bank robberies.

He suspects that the ransom note was written before the crime, which could have been a failed kidnapping attempt, in which the ransom note, Douglas noted, was peppered with what appeared to be phrases borrowed from films like Ransom (1996) . ) and Speed (1994) which, he speculated, inspired the author. All this, when Louis Smith, a seasoned detective, who came out of retirement to assist Boulder authorities on the case in early 2019, in which he originally suspected the parents, but after evaluating all the evidence gathered, also concluded that an intruder had committed the crime. the crime.