{"id":179,"date":"2020-05-18T15:16:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T22:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bescofield.net\/?page_id=179"},"modified":"2020-06-06T15:52:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T22:52:53","slug":"8-what-would-be-the-motive-to-kill-carla-shaffer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bescofield.net\/nl\/sections\/8-what-would-be-the-motive-to-kill-carla-shaffer\/","title":{"rendered":"8. What Would Be the Motive to Kill Carla Shaffer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

return to section 7…<\/a><\/p>\n

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What Would Be the Motive to Kill Carla Shaffer?<\/h2>\n

Although the authorities concluded that no crime had been committed, the conspiracy-mongers were determined to accuse someone. However, even they never expressed a reason <\/em>for anyone to kill Carla, other than Reed Goodrich\u2019s all-encompassing obsession that everything involved had to do with satanic rituals.<\/p>\n

What could possibly be a motive? Be Scofield\u2019s statement about someone saying that Carla \u201cmay have been trying to leave the group\u201d is impossible to verify because, as usual, Scofield did not provide any source for that recklessly vague statement. And how many times does it need to be said by how many people that there was no membership<\/em> in Ma Pushan or later, Sambodha, so there was never a \u201cgroup\u201d to \u201cleave.\u201d Anyone attending one of the events could simply walk out the door at any time.<\/em> Scofield is once again hinting that attending a lecture or a meditation session is akin to joining a \u201ccult.\u201d<\/p>\n

On multiple occasions, Carla told police, EMTs, and the staff in the hospital that she had not been attacked by any human, but by a \u201cless dense being\u201d or a supernatural being.<\/p>\n

There is not a single statement in the police reports that describes Carla saying anything, let alone anything negative, about Aaravindha, Ashayrah, or Ma Pushan (she wouldn\u2019t have mentioned Sambodha, because that business name didn\u2019t exist until a year after Carla died). For that matter, there\u2019s no record of Carla saying anything negative about any<\/em> other person or group, except for statements reported by authorities that she said \u201cdon\u2019t tell Jim\u201d about the stabbing, and while in the hospital, she told people that did not want to talk to her ex-husband, Jim Shaffer-Bauck.<\/p>\n

When loved ones die accidentally or by their own hands due to mental illness, that\u2019s hard for friends and relatives to accept, because those around the deceased often feel guilt. Why didn\u2019t they know the severity of the problem? Why didn\u2019t they see it coming? Why didn\u2019t they make more of an effort to help the victim? It\u2019s tempting to believe that the terrible outcome in Carla\u2019s story was someone else\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n

But even if you were one of the conspiracy fans like Scofield who want to believe that Carla Shaffer was murdered, a hard look at the facts make that a difficult tale to swallow. If someone else perpetrated the stabbing attack, it was one of the most inept murder attempts in history.<\/p>\n

Carla was stabbed multiple times (the number varies depending on who tells the story) with shallow cuts, as well as hit in the face. What a patient, feeble would-be killer! Medical reports show that all Carla\u2019s wounds were on the front of her body; there were no defensive wounds on her arms or hands. Did Carla simply stand there, naked, arms out, while the attacker stabbed and hit her over and over again?<\/p>\n

After the stabbing, Carla left her house, naked, driving her car.<\/p>\n

Did the would-be killer say, \u201cDamn it, I\u2019ve got to go find a sharper knife? Stay here until I get back,\u201d and then leave Carla\u2019s house? Why would a killer let Carla grab her car keys and leave?<\/p>\n

The houses in Opal Commons are very close together, but nobody reported a scream or any commotion. None of the neighbors noticed anyone coming to or leaving from Carla\u2019s house. None of the neighbors remarked on any unusual cars.<\/p>\n

There were broken jars and spilled red beans in Carla\u2019s kitchen, and Carla had facial injuries including broken teeth. On observing the damage to the house, neighbor Deborah Martyn thought Carla might have climbed to get a jar of lentils and then slipped and fell. Nobody knows. It\u2019s understandably difficult and painful to imagine Carla doing all of this to herself. But remember that the police reports contain a statement that it took eight people to restrain Carla in the hospital.<\/p>\n

Any professional who has dealt with a victim in the grip of psychosis can tell you that people experiencing hallucinations are capable of unspeakable acts. They have been known to bang their heads against walls, intentionally slice or burn their own skin, cut off their own hands because they believe their limbs are possessed, kill their children to \u201csave them,\u201d and jump off buildings, believing they can fly.<\/p>\n

Nobody can know what was going on in Carla\u2019s mind in the early hours of December 14, 2005. And nobody can know what was in Carla\u2019s mind on January 6, 2006, the day she died.<\/p>\n

Based on her statements about \u201ca less dense being\u201d and a \u201cstruggle between light and dark,\u201d it seems likely that Carla believed she was attacked by a demon of some kind. This is not an uncommon hallucination during a psychotic break; the annals of police reports are filled with insane criminals who have told authorities that a demon made them commit their crimes.<\/p>\n

Even if you buy Scofield\u2019s insinuations that Aaravindha had \u201cfollowers\u201d on Orcas, why would he want to kill any of them? That simply makes no sense. The authorities in San Juan County can tell you that there is no evidence that any killer except for psychosis had a hand in Carla\u2019s stabbing or death. They found no sign that anyone else was present during either event.<\/p>\n

The True Mystery:
\nWho Wanted to Accuse Aaravindha, and Why?<\/h2>\n

The true mysteries of this tale are the motives of the handful of Orcas Island residents who were determined to frame Aaravindha for murder.<\/p>\n

An attempt to \u201cframe-up\u201d someone for committing a serious crime is itself a crime. That is no doubt why those individuals hung their illegal posters in secret in 2006. In 2020, Reed Goodrich slipped up during a Skype interview and confessed to our investigator that he was responsible for the posters.<\/p>\n

The motives of Be Scofield are clear from her blog post: she was thrilled to adopt all the conspiracy theories and disseminate malicious gossip far and wide to promote herself once again as the consummate \u201ccult-hunter.\u201d Although Scofield had access to all the police reports and even to the coroner\u2019s report, she chose to ignore official statements and conclusions from authorities and instead trumpet wild ideas from the disgruntled gossip-mongers to create a \u201cjuicy\u201d story. (See \u201cReactions to Be Scofield\u2019s Malicious Article\u201d later in this report for testimony from Orcas Islanders that Be Scofield was determined to find a cult, even if she had to make one up.)<\/p>\n

In any organization, there will be a few malcontents, those who disagree with the organization\u2019s leader or those who had hoped for a solution that the organization did not provide. Troubled people often become seekers, searching for help or inspiration or a sense of belonging. If they don\u2019t get what they want, troubled people often want to blame someone else for their problems. Scofield seeks out these angry people and without any investigation, accepts their stories as true, because that\u2019s what she needs to slap together a sensational story. A professional journalist would speak to multiple people within an organization to get a sense of reality, but Be Scofield finds her truth through vibrations and \u201ccult radar.\u201d<\/p>\n

This case is even more bizarre, because the malcontents whom Scofield chose to believe were not associated with Aaravindha in any way. Their only connection was that all of them lived on Orcas Island, and all of them were acquainted with Carla.<\/p>\n

As mentioned earlier, the police records contain statements written by three people who didn\u2019t believe the official verdicts about what had happened to Carla, and who were looking for someone to blame:<\/p>\n