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Couple of things:
- Mechele's conning is not the same as the usual "stripper fantasy" thing. Most strippers leave the usual fantasy at the strip club. In fact, they usually go out of their way to NOT interact with club clients outside of the club. Mechele took it outside the club, developing outside relationships with men and conning them outside of the club. That is not how it usually happens. Mechele went above and beyond the usual stripper fantasy and into the land of full-on con job.
- Mechele cheated on her husband not only with her ex, Hilke, but with one of her husbands co-workers while out on bond for the first trial. That indicates to me that she hasn't changed her way too much!
- It is not a Grand Canyon type of leap to consider that someone who is morally bankrupt enough to con men into giving her money and expensive gifts and trips may also be morally bankrupt enough to kill a mark in order to get even more money. As otto mentioned, there really is no reasonable argument that could be presented to support the idea that Mechele is anything but a con person.
- It is, however, a HUGE leap to consider that a spurned lover like Kent had himself brutally murdered simply to "get back" at Mechele. There has been no proof or even a hint of evidence that suggests that Kent planned his own murder--no emails from him and his "co-conspirator.
- turtlepace, you stated as fact that Mechele was unable to present a complete defense at her trial b/c of Carlin's earlier conviction. However, you haven't been able to provide any evidence that that was true. Therefore, I'm taking that as rumor and giving it the same weight I would give any other rumor.
- The youngest Carlin was asked if Kent had every been inappropriate with him and Carlin stated that KENT HAD NOT SEXUALLY MOLESTED HIM.
- And as turtlepace mentioned, if Kent really was a gay pedophile (which there is absolutely no evidence of), then why would he be obsessively stalking Mechele?
- I continue to be amazed at how some people seem to think it's reasonable to accuse a deceased person of all sorts of wrongdoings with NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER, but these same people think it's unreasonable to think that someone who has had no problem conning people and taking large amounts of their money might make the leap to having someone killed for money. Yes, conning is not proof of murder. But dying isn't proof of suicide, either.