Talk:How the 'A' Stole Christmas/@comment-25755332-20141126222345

Another idea that struck me is that it's actually 4 "killers" the night Ali disappeared who acted more or less consciously. I'll try to explain. First there's a) the person who hit Bethany, b) the person who buried Bethany (Melissa), c) the person who hit Ali and d) the person who buried Ali (Jessica). Everyone guilty of crime in some degree.

The individuals that hit both Bethany and Ali are guilty of attempted murder and/or assault, both girls were alive before they were buried and would probably still be alive if Melissa and Jessica didn't interfer. I know Ali is alive, but we can for the theory pretend that she is dead. The people that really killed Bethany and Ali would then have been Melissa and Jessica!, even if they wasn't aware that the girls were alive when they buried them, it's still illegal to bury someone and cover up for a friend or relative.

Now to the first strange part neither the person who hit Ali nor Bethany didn't make sure they were really dead. If Melissa and Jessica haven't showed up, both girls could probably be still alive. And that's to me kind of strange, if you're trying to kill someone wouldn't it be the most obvious thing to make sure that the target was really dead, before you left the crime scene?

Now to the second strange part. If you think someone you know has killed the person in front of you and you have a well thought-out plan to cover up for them? Before you even consider it, wouldn't it be obvious to make sure that the victim isn't still alive, before you bury them?

So that got me thinking were the persons who hit both Ali and Bethany really trying to kill them or just hurt and scare them? Or was the ulterior plan to hurt Ali and Bethany and someone else would be the person "really" unconsciously killing them and do all the dirty work. That's what in practice happened now, except that Ali miraculously survived with help of Grunwald.

Or was the plan just to scare Ali and Bethany, and the plan went all to blazes when Melissa and Jessica showed up and tried to cover up something that wasn't meant to happen, Melissa and Jessica was in the wrong place at the wrong time and tried to cover up something that in reality didn't exist(no dead bodies before they interfered with their burying-people-alive-skills)

And lastly, if the individuals really tried to kill Ali and Bethany. The execution was quite unprofessionally done. If you are trying to kill someone, the target is supposed to be dead afterwards. That's kind of the point.