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The stamp he used didn't matter. How does everyone not realize that?

posted 8 years ago by Hopz_7
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Spoilers obviously.

The stamp didn't matter, Childs killed his mom and it was because of his dad one way or another. Whether it was murder set up for insurance money or debt his dad owed, his dad is still at fault for getting his mom killed. As far as the stamps are concerned, Childs just got a plea deal for a reduced sentence and protective custody for killing someone else. Why would he trust a random letter he received and think if he comes clean and tells the kid the truth that he wouldn't then be prosecuted for the crime? Why CONFESS to a crime with no statute of limitations which could leave him in prison for the rest of his life? He doesn't know the kid and probably thinks its a police setup of some kind. There was zero chance that he was going to use the black stamp and Shaun knew it.

It's amazing to me that so many people actually debate this. Like this murderer is just going to go "what the hell, this random stranger wouldn't set me up. Let's just confess to a murder so I can maybe make him feel better. Yea, the cops wouldn't have anything to do with this and it will never come back to haunt me." Come on people.

[–] TRinzler 7 years ago

Nobody knew the significance of the stamps so he wouldn't be confessing to anything.

Having said that it's possible the poison was on both stamps anyway (and perhaps also the envelope?) because Sean wanted justice against his mother's killer regardless of whether his dad was involved or not...