The person to ask is Sheridan Jr.
i.e. ask him if he thinks his mom is alive.

That would be a pretty sensitive question.
His point of view would carry way more weight than the other ex, Claire.
She's just guessing.

But, I don't think EU is as good at empathizing as is needed here
EU calls human interactions "reading" people ...which is a tell on EU...bull in a china shop..the bull wants to buy china, but breaks it all on the way to the register.

The "accepted wisdom" on the Filipina is from Sheridan's smartvoter pages..
Sheridan says

In 1977 Peterson and the children drove to Tehran, Iran. His wife, who had returned to the Philippines to care for an ailing mother, died of pneumonia.

The idea that the woman returned to care for her mother, makes sense to me. I don't see why Sheridan would make up that detail.

And I can't see Sheridan taking care of kids at a very young age. By this time, they would be 7 and 5, so if the mom died, I could see Sheridan managing things.

I think it's most likely the Filipina did die as Sheridan says. Sheridan puts in unnecessary detail, when it's true.

I like it when the crazy old man is predictive

Pete, at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Nov 15, 2016

EDITOR: The collapse of the Roman Empire didn't begin with Caligula. And the same can be said about the American Republic.

It didn't begin with Donald Trump. It began a long time ago with the Vietnam War and the massacre of 3.5 million Vietnamese. There was Watergate and the impeachment of Richard Nixon; Ronald Reagan selling missiles to Iran and using the cash to arm the Contras; George W. Bush and Dick Cheney's invasion of Iraq and thus the enrichment of Halliburton; the tea party and Sarah Palin; and finally the stonewalling of the appointment of a moderate U.S. Supreme Court justice.

Yes, Trump has been a long time coming. He is the culmination of all this, and his rule will be brutal and unsparing. Yes, and as an afterthought, there is the nuclear button. One of his usual tantrums, and sayonara.

SHERIDAN PETERSON

Santa Rosa

There's only one person speculating the Filipina is alive, and with no evidence. The 91 year old ex-wife.  No better than the random neighbor gossiping about murder.

If Claire knew for sure, she would have said so.
And why would the son leave his elderly mom alone in the Phillipines? She probably had US passport from Sheridan marriage. Bring her here to die...if alive and probably 72+

The idea she is alive in Phillipines doesn't pass my smell test.

At this point, MJ Fryar's opinion is no better than a random cooper forum poster.

If she is alive, and Peterson - a guy being investigated by people writing books and articles about him - lied and said she was dead, then it was likely because if you talk to an ex they're going to trash you. Publicly.

I don't imagine him telling a reporter, "Oh, her? The ex that I broke it off with on really bad terms? Yeah, let me get you her number and email address. She'll help safeguard my good name."

Sheridan doesn't give a damn about Cooperites or the press. Your sense of 'who cares' is seriously out of whack.

Not giving a shit is the rational response here.

Evidence that Sheridan didn't have money in 1975. When in Windsor before Saudi Arabia, for 3 months, he worked two teaching jobs.

"It all but paid for gas" he said about the 2nd job.

EU would have secret swiss accounts that were depleted by loans to friends by then.

Sort of ridiculous

There are several problems with your argument.

1) You're assuming Sheridan was broke.

2) Let's assume he just had 20K in an account in 1971 while living in Nepal...Sheridan said he left Nepal broke in March of 1973...how do you exhaust 20k living in a mud hut in Nepal in a little over one year?

3) You argue that he was making the big bucks as a refugee adviser working for a federal government program and that's how he managed to save 20K before moving to Nepal...yet upon moving back to Vietnam to work for a private corporation, presumably making even more money, he couldn't manage to save anything by the time he left in 1975?

That, my friend, is sort of ridiculous.