User blog comment:Angren Túrë/Weiss' full backstory (as I see it)/@comment-23784953-20130730170710

Reading this again, I realized, Mr. Schnee's pulling a supervillain-level of elaborate planning here. He had a lot of opportunities to just outright kill Weiss, but didn't do so, in order to let a more less suspicious death happen to her. The best part is he's hoping for the best, and given how skilled Weiss is at the time she broke the Giant Armor, it's highly unlikely that Mr. Schnee's complicated plan of letting her get killed in Beacon.

The Schnee are rich people as you've said, so covering Weiss' death in any way is possible if she died at different times.

Like in her concert. He could've used some AK-130 Androids that could just snipe Weiss, and he'll just cook up some bullcrap that they were reprogrammed by some hax White Fang member. Easy enough, right?

Heck, let's push this further, Mr. Schnee can go ahead and kill Weiss personally, and since he's her father, the suspicion is far lower and she'll be purely defenseless. That's far easier to cover up since he can also make up a story how "Weiss ran away from home and has gone missing".

While this theory is pretty decent in itself, there's quite a lot of incompetence on Mr. Schnee's part. Considering his daughter is a prodigy as you say, he should be at least a bit more smarter in how he handles his daughter's murder.