That Ol' Green-Eyed Monster (II)

In Episode 4 of the Dead and Gone podcast, Gnome wonders "why anyone would be jealous of Greg" because "he was just a kid."  So let's return to jealousy as the motive for the murders.   Here, then, is the documentation this view:

• One witness testified that she had witnessed both Bo and Weston being verbally or physically abusive to women in the past."  (Thomas v. Chappell, p. 7)
  
• Dan Adams witnessed an argument between Bo and Mary in which Bo seemed possessive.  (Thomas v. Wong, p. 11-2)
• To Adams Mary seemed upset and afraid. (Thomas v. Wong, p. 12)
• Mary and Greg began hanging out, becoming friends.
• "[Jim] Prew said Mary came into the Drop In Center at the University Lutheran Chapel on the 15th and after work he met up with Greg and Mary and several others.  They all went down to Rainbow Village." (Berkeley Marina Murders, p. 135)
• "[Prew] again described the party scene outside his van; most drank beer but International drank whiskey." (Ibid)
• Robbie van Heest told Dan Wolke that, "They all had been drinking and smoking pot." (Ibid. p. 27)
• "Mary was the only woman at this gathering, which did not strike me as unusual.  She had five brothers and always had many male friends." (Ibid. p. 111)
• "Chaffee asked who the seven people were who were at the party.  Prew responded himself, Chris Campbell, Paul Harter, Mary, Greg, Dan, Robbie, and International." (Ibid. p112)
• James Bowen was not at this gathering.  Weston Sudduth was not at this gathering.

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• The site of Rainbow Village was not very big.  It was "a fenced off 200 by 200 square feet maintenance yard, which [was] about the size of two tennis courts." (Oakland Tribune, 01.31.1985)
• Assuming that he was in the Village at some point during the approximately three and a half hours they were gathered at Prew's van , Bowen would probably have been aware that Mary was the only female hanging out with a bunch of guys.
• (The story Robert told Lindsey about Bo getting lost during a hike up near Chico suggests Bo had some insecurities.)
• Perhaps Mary being the only woman in a group of men led Bowen to grow insecure, and perhaps insecurity led to jealousy and anger.

So why would anyone be jealous of Greg, a young man about to turn nineteen in December?  This documentation might support a view James Bowen may have become jealous of him.

Might jealousy have led Bowen to steal Thomas's rifle?  There was good opportunity to do so while Thomas went on that beer and burrito run with the others.