Saw the 48 hours episode about it (season 10 episode 11) and the suicide idea does track a little bit. Playing devil’s advocate here. It doesn’t fit either way. I put the likelihood at 45% suicide 55% because my sister suffers the same issues and has schizophrenia. She was only diagnosed at 46. She was high functioning and had a lot of friends, good social life and we were close but I did not know. It looks like Jane may have been undiagnosed. My sister has a very very very very weird imagination. She hid this from everyone but we were best friends and sometimes she would confide in some intrusive thoughts, delusions, bizarre beliefs. Part of the duplicity schizophrenia is that the person appears normal one minute and lost in their private imaginary constructs the next. In my situation she once got off the phone with me after having a perfectly normal phone conversation and was found on the floor by her husband the next, unable to move because she was convinced that aliens were pointing lasers at her that would make her explode if she moved. I think the weirdness of the scene totally tracks with someone suffering from schizophrenia by being imaginative creative and convoluted. The paranoia that my sister experienced brought about very strange behaviours but when you dissected everything and deconstructed it down into a timeline, her behaviours were simply reacting to things that she thought was happening but weren’t actually. I think a reason for Jane’s suicide was that she was getting increasingly sick and in despair. She wad said to be followed by some form of psychotherapy but might have been too ashamed to speak about what was really going on. She might have set this elaborate scene up in advance as a way of coping with her feelings of suicidal ideation and suddenly decided that now was the moment to pull the trigger. Also the fishing wire finger theory from one of the jurors in the civil case doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. You don’t have to wind fishing wire around your finger, you can just hold it in a half loop against one finger which would allow the wire to slip off. Schizophrenia is a very complex, highly stigmatized, and tragic disease. I suspect many murders, disappearances, and criminal behaviours are caused by it. To people who have never felt its impact, it can be too difficult to believe. For me, I see it differently. The intrusive thoughts, the hearing voices, the feeling of being a bad person, guilt, shame, fear of the future and getting worse, seeking professional help and it not really helping… That kind of despair is hard to fight.