I have been following this forum for a while, brought by Geoffrey Gray’s book. I have enjoyed the discourse and feel like most people, myself included, just want to know who DB was no matter who it turns out to be. Green Elf is such a gentleman and lays out some plausible reasons why he feels Marla is telling the truth. However, there are people who the truth is what they invent and they whole-heartedly believe what they spin. I have known a few and perhaps so have some of you. They exaggerate, embellish, or just plain invent and for the most part are not question. To me, that is another explanation as to why Marla would so graciously accept the speaking engagement at the Symposium. She has even mentioned that she didn’t realize that it was a DZ event, perhaps not expecting to be thoroughly question. I’m not saying that she is fabricating but her defensive behavior strikes me as someone who is not used to being questioned. The part of her entire story that bothers me the most is her certainty that LD was DB. At 8 years old, I still believed in Santa Clause. I have, over the course of my life, been reminiscing with family about ‘old times’ only to be told, “Aunt so-and-so wasn’t Emilia Earhart! You only overheard half of that fight!” Everything that Marla has said could be explained as a child you jumped to conclusions and only overheard small parts of conversations or misinterpreted. If we are using Occam’s Razor, Dewey and LD went hunting. As an aside, it occurs to me that some of our postulating isn’t about solving the DB case but is about planning the perfect crime. How we wish DB could have gotten away with it. In any event, I enjoy it. Tanya
