IMO, the Only thing that will get EJ to talk is for Texas LE to start talking about murder charges and the possibility of being put to death.
I bet she'll change her tune real quick.
bbm
iluvmua, you have put your finger on something that has confounded me all year. Elizabeth, at least through November, has apparently believed that her release from jail was/is imminent. This goes back even before the May interview with detective Salame. According to Grandpa Bob, Grandma Sylvia gave 50k to hire Alcock and Feldman because they could get EJ out on some procedural defect. They were hired in April. So to my mind, EJ has never really felt compelled to consider that a huge chunk of her life may be spent in prison- much less that she faces possible execution in Texas. I think the lawyers get that. EJ? I don't know.
moo
I don't think EJ knows how much trouble she really is in.
IMO, there's knowing, there's undertanding, and there's accepting.
- Knowing - has Elizabeth been given the info? Yes, this has been a homicide investigation for quite some time. Elizabeth's attorneys are obligated to fully inform her of the charges she may be facing, and the consequences should she be charged. Elizabeth knows.
- Understanding - does Elizabeth understand the info? Yes. When she was found mentally incompetent, and at times before that, she may not have understood what her attorneys explained to her regarding the homicide charges she may be facing. However, Elizabeth has since been found to be mentally competent, and therefore we know that she now understands fully. In addition to being mentally competent for months, she's also very intelligent. Elizabeth understands.
- Accepting - does Elizabeth accept the legal situation she's in? I would say she doesn't accept it, since we see clear signs that she's trying very hard, and going to what some may consider extremes, to get out of not only the possible homicide charges, but all her current charges as well. I don't think Elizabeth has much of a conscience. I don't think she has that inner feeling most of us have that tells us when we've done something wrong. She may intellectually recognize that whatever she did with Gabe is considered both legally and morally wrong to most of the rest of the world, but she also seems to me to feel justified - "I was angry at Logan, so it was okay to hurt him by hurting Gabe (whether that hurting of Gabe was killing him or giving him away." Elizabeth doesn't accept, IMO, that most of the world thinks she should be punished for her wrongdoing to Gabe, and to Logan, and to Gabe's whole family, and to society as a whole.