21. Why did Anastasia's father take out a second life insurance policy on his daughter's life, only one week before her murder?
Answer: Anastasia’s father took out a new insurance policy on his entire family just before Anastasia’s death, because the opportunity was presented by telephone solicitation. None of his other daughters were murdered (or have been since), so the timing is purely coincidental.This question was removed as soon as the facts were given, but the fact that this question was raised at all indicates some of the weakness of the line that Case apologists have been pursuing.
Case apologists have obviously not let this one go, as they have published documents related to the insurance policy on their website with no explanation, in an apparent attempt to cast doubt onto areas where there is none. The only reason that the documents were included in the original criminal case file was that they played a role in a complaint filed by Anastasia’s father against a detective in the case.
They now are trying to say that it's "only coincidental if Bob WitbolsFeugen wasn't driven to murder". Besides the fact that this is a slanderous accusation, it requires a greater leap of faith than the efforts to blame the "random stranger", requiring Anastasia's father to have known that she had gone out, where she was, and that she had been let out at a specific location by her "friends".
Nice try, but if the Sheriff's Department was as "anxious" as Case apologists describe to close the case, they would have had a perfect target in someone who had already been a thorn in their side since the beginning of the case.
Aaron Vermeulen was responsible for this question, and asked it before the killer's website took its present form, and before we had answered. When we gave him the answer, his reply was as follows:
I have put to bed those crazy questions that I had in the unanswered Questions section of Byron's website. I feel really bad now about asking them in the first place. Especially about the insurance money. I was under the impression that he just took out the 2nd life insurance on Anastasia alone. I had no idea he updated his whole family policy.This accusation was taken down at that time, but apparently Case and his friends have changed their minds about being sorry. They write a number of times about the Sheriff's Department's "desperation" to find the killer in this case, but their attempt to attack the victim's family smacks of their own desperation and vindictiveness.
We put this question and our reply up to show readers just the kind of questions that Case and his supporters were asking at the start; the sophistic posturing that has followed does nothing for them except to show how morally and intellectually bankrupt their arguments have become.