The only thing that really doesn't make sense though is that Ciancio was threatening to sue to get money owed. The check he was picking up was severance pay and from what I have read was supposed to be the end of the matter. They released his last text message and it said something like "Can you believe it? They're actually going to write me a check". What was Fowler attempting to stop when the whole thing was potentially over? It's gonna be interesting to see what happens for sure. I'm still betting he pleads guilty to avoid a trial.
Maybe there was no check. Maybe Fowler never intended to pay this "severance pay." Maybe it was a ruse to lure Ciancio to the office so he could kill him.
From reading the arrest affidavit, I get the idea that Ciancio was completely taken by surprise, that he was sitting at the table looking at papers and suddenly was shot in the head, close-up, three times, killed instantly, and fell on the floor. Ciancio was shot in the BACK of the head, with maybe one shot to the side of the head -- he probably never saw the gun.
IF that's true (and I AM speculating -- hopefully there will be a trial and the truth wil come out in that trial) then it would appear that this was all very well planned, definitely premeditated.
I also suspect that Fowler did not act alone, that he was being egged on by someone (CoS loyal personnel of course!) who may have assisted with the planning.
I hope the investigators are following any leads in that direction. If that is so, then there was a "conspiracy" to commit this murder, and charges of "conspiracy" might also be brought against Fowler, and that would open a very big can of worms.
Or maybe I just watch too much
Law and Order on TV ...
I hope the investigators as well as someone connected to the Ciancio family are reading this stuff on the web because even though a lot of it (my speculations, for example) may be way off base, it is still true that no one understands the mental state and "logic" of a scientologist who would commit such a violent and cold-blooded act better than an EX scientologist -- as was very well expressed in HH's post above.
And I don't feel sorry for Rex Fowler. He could have walked away at any time during his long career as a public scientologist, when he first noticed the "outpoints" that didn't get handled (and you know there were some) all the way up to and through all the heavy regging pressure he must have endured near the end.
Yes there are consequences for walking away.
Thank god, there are even more serious consequences for premeditated murder.