or D. faked death, if we're going conspiracy routes.
No, that one's easy to rule out.
Not if he thought ahead and found a way to make a clone that would pass for him.
Hard boiled Oklahoma.
Yeah, this kind of thing will bring out the conspiracy nutters in droves.
How is it nuttery to have suspicions about an oddly-timed death with a motive? It's nuttery to draw conclusions I suppose, but not to have suspicions. The hastings case was fairly obvious, I mean, they wouldn't even let Mercedes examine the car...