You can never know who to believe with these things...and because it's such an old case, it'll probably never be solved.
Holmes did have a wife. It's in fact one of the reasons why people thought he had himself killed with the life insurance policy. It's said the last time she saw him, she accompanied him to the door of his car, as he was very nervous about being out alone. He already tried to kill himself, so maybe he was finishing the job once he knew he had security for his family.
It certainly sounds like Brady was the ringleader...but there IS one more key player in all this who the public didn't really learn about until way after the fact. It was in 1995, in a book published about the case. Author Alex Castles posited that perhaps Brady killed Smith under the orders of someone else—Edward Fredrick Weyman, or Eddie Weyman, one of the most dangerous criminals in Australia during the 1930s. He'd been arrested twice. One for attempting to defraud a bank with a forged check, and the other time after a bank robbery that Smith allegedly gave information on.
This author also was one to push the idea that Holmes hired a hitman to kill himself, since suicide would've voided his life insurance policies.
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Holmes did have a wife. It's in fact one of the reasons why people thought he had himself killed with the life insurance policy. It's said the last time she saw him, she accompanied him to the door of his car, as he was very nervous about being out alone. He already tried to kill himself, so maybe he was finishing the job once he knew he had security for his family.
It certainly sounds like Brady was the ringleader...but there IS one more key player in all this who the public didn't really learn about until way after the fact. It was in 1995, in a book published about the case. Author Alex Castles posited that perhaps Brady killed Smith under the orders of someone else—Edward Fredrick Weyman, or Eddie Weyman, one of the most dangerous criminals in Australia during the 1930s. He'd been arrested twice. One for attempting to defraud a bank with a forged check, and the other time after a bank robbery that Smith allegedly gave information on.
This author also was one to push the idea that Holmes hired a hitman to kill himself, since suicide would've voided his life insurance policies.