With 2 Bodies Now Found In The Burnt Out Mansion Are We Looking At A Failed Business Man Topping His Family?

Question

Apparently the 'businessman' was dodgier than Elsie shopping for men in Egypt who one judge insisted 'should not be trusted'. But do you think he really bumped off his own family now that he was ruined or was it a dodgy business dealing gone wrong?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/7589465.stm

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mansion-arson-plot-thickens-a-murder-mystery-ndash-or-a-family-on-the-run-913314.html

Answer 1

Why would he have killed the animals then? For someone to even shoot a duck and a guinea pig - that is hate and revenge not suicide.

Answer 2

familicide

or gang related because of the horses

Answer 3

who knows the real answer at the moment not even the police at the moment everything at the moment is speculation only time will give the real answer another one for the conspiracy theorists

Answer 4

My first and only thought was suicide because the animals were all killed.

Answer 5

He owes HMRC £850k, he owes a business associate £750k. He has been made brankrupt and cannot sell his because his assets have been frozen.  A judge described him as bereft of any business concious or sense.  There is literally NOTHING left of the house and it's surrounding buildings.   Given the size of the house they could have got out with plenty of time before the blaze took hold. My feeling is that they are long gone, probably abroad.  If you were to committ suicide why would you not let your dogs and horses free? I can't wait to get until they get to the bottom of this but right now, I smell a massive smelly RAT!

Answer 6

pipped to the post----by 3 hours !!!!!!

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Answer 7

I think it was a revenge arson attack!

There were three living in the house and there were two bodies found if the missing one was the husband why would he want to kill his wife and daughter and the animals? Just a thought!

Answer 8

Until the bodies were found, I had hoped that it was all an elaborate plan intended to buy them time until they could flee the country and escape their escalating debts. I thought that maybe the father had paid someone to do a professional job on the place because it would take a very cold-hearted person to kill their own pets.

But now after the discovery of bodies, I'm convinced it was a murder-suicide on the part of the father. I very much doubt that it was murder by an outsider because yes, he did owe a lot of money, but he owed money to the taxman, his business and debt collecting agencies, etc. These are all places that wouldn't burn your house down if you refuse to pay your debts - they take you to court instead.

Of course, there is a small chance that he did go to a loan shark very recently to borrow the money to pay off his debts. Perhaps he saw it as the only way because he wasn't allowed to sell his house, and maybe it all went wrong and it was pay-back time. But I very much doubt it.

People have said that the killing of the animals indicates it wasn't the father who did it because they were his own pets, but people do very crazy things when they're pushed far enough. Personally, I believe that his wife and daughter had no idea just how bad their finances were. There is talk that he was about to lose the house - it was already in the hands of the liquidators anyway. When you've been a successful businessman like Foster was, made millions and been living a lavish, extravagant lifestyle, it can be seriously terrifying at the thought of losing everything. I imagine he put a lot of work into that business and worked damned hard to earn the money he had, because he was a self-made millionaire, not someone who was born into it. To then end up in that situation, you would feel an utter failure. He was probably a proud man who felt he couldn't tell his wife what was happening. And in his deluded state of mind, he would also have thought that they would be better off dead with him instead of leaving them behind with nothing. If he had simply killed himself, his wife would end up responsible for the debts. He would have imagined his wife and daughter suffering and probably couldn't cope with that knowledge. Though I'm sure that, given the choice, the wife and daughter would not have wanted things to end up the way they have.

I imagine that he would have shot his wife and daughter first, then the animals. Killing his family and pets first made it final - it was the end of everything and made it impossible for him to change his mind about killing himself. There was no going back after he had done that. It would all have been planned. He would have doused the house, garage and stables in petrol in the early hours of the morning before he did anything else. After killing his family and pets, he would probably have then lit the final fire in the house before shooting himself.

The burning down of the house instead of a simple murder-suicide was basically a huge V-sign to the debt collectors. By burning everything - literally everything - there are no assets left for the debt collectors to seize. So they won't get their money back in the end anyway. I'm sure he knew exactly what he was doing in that respect - he was determined that even after their deaths, his debts would remain unpaid.

The whole story has really saddened me, and I just sincerely hope that he did shoot his wife and daughter instead of leaving them to burn or suffocate to death in the fire. That does not bear thinking about. It is a tragic waste of life, and goes to show what money reduces people to. I'm in a fair bit of debt myself (unsecured, thankfully) but I know that no amount of debt would drive me to something like that. It's only money. If it was me, they could take me to court and take what they wanted. But they would never take my family. And that's what should have been most important to him, not his lifestyle.

Answer 9

yes I think so - he's probably in Brazil now or whatever.

Answer 10

I really don't know,

but I do know, men do things, and call it " a moment of madness."

Answer 11

im not shure  could poissible a bissnes deal gon wrong until the bodys were found i was convinced that they had done a runner ofshore accoutn new life abroad fresh start ect xx

Answer 12

I don't think he could live with the shame of losing everything he had

It sent him over the edge and he killed his family

In a bizarre way I think he thought he was protecting them so they wouldn't have to go from having everything to having nothing

Sad really, just goes to show what money can do to people

Answer 13

firstly i thought he flipped & killed the family...but now - i reckon he upset & owed money to the 'wrong' people & they were murdered but it has been made to look like he did it himself!...if that makes sense!!

Answer 14

Yes. It looks like the classic murder-suicide. Very rich people get desperate when they fall flat. They'd rather be dead and kill their families than to live like common folk. They don't mind s******g the common folk though, do they?

Answer 15

It looks that way but i hope not. But two bodies he may have taken the cowards way out and ran off by himself.  

Answer 16

I think he did it. They are not dead. He was mad that he could not even sell his own home to get out form under debt. He figured since he couldn't have the house, horses, etc... that no one else would get them either. That explains the attempt to stop all rescue efforts to put out the blazes. So it went like this. They went to a friends house to say goodbye (but they didn't let the friends know they were leaving, or maybe they did) Anyway, they then went home. He shot the horses, because if he can't enjoy them why should anybody else? Then they boarded up the windows and doors form the inside to make sure the house would be ruined completely. They set both houses ablaze. And they left the country. Obviously they had some sort of cash so they could do this. He probably had been making withdrawals for some time now, in little increments so they wouldn't catch on with the proof of a big lump sum amount of money taken out right before this happened. Smart, very smart.

Answer 17

The mystery deepens by the Hour , such a cruel waste of life .