Hardboiled
Rotational Player and Threatening Starter's Job
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The company I work for is quite large and there is an office in CT ironically not all that far from Bristol. A guy from that office murdered his wife a few years back. Some people were shocked others including myself were not. The man who did it showed many faces so depending on who you were you got a different view.
He and I had to work together often. The conversation were often the same. He would call my line nice as pie. He would explain his issue and how he wanted to attack it. If I agreed with him the transaction was very pleasant. If however I blew holes in his theory and refusted to take his course of action he would blow his stack. I wasn't rude. I would explain why it didn't make sense to do it his way very calmly. As soon as he would hang up I would turn around and say to the manager of both of our departements. Blank is about to call you to complain about me and he would roll his eyes and say I heard. He would call the manager instantly and be sweet as pie while ripping me a new one. I didn't care because I could justify my position technically.
I'm sure Matt Light saw some things that those in the upper organization never did much like I did. People like this always wear many faces so they are impossible to comletely weed out.
I think the key to your story is that once you heard the news you weren't surprised. That is different from someone saying to you: "Why didn't you tell his superiors and wife that he was going to kill someone!" You didn't know or predict that event. But once the event happened, it fit into a picture of the guy you had.
After the fact, people going, "Yeah, I can see that now" about Ahern is different from knowing he was going to murder people.