Oh my! I just got caught up (FINALLY!) Why didn't someone wake me up and tell me you all were here for days with this new information? :bed: SavvyRose and all who thought all along that there was another arrest coming....my hat is off to you all. :clap: I honestly believed that LE had their "man" and that this was his (and only his) twisted and sloppy work. At this point I don't know what to think about the possibility of more people being involved. :thinking: or about motive (??)
There have been at least two dozen posts I wanted to comment on in the last thread and so I am going to basically try and sum it all up the best (and most respectfully) I can in this one.
MOO (and please remember that this is a HUGE MOOOOOOOOO!) LE did not make a hasty arrest when they arrested CL. One MIGHT be justified in claiming that the arrest of AL was quick and hasty (as it came a mere handful of days after BC went missing) but MOO no way did LE feel pressured into making another arrest quickly and without evidence when they arrested CL. MOO (again) whatever proof LE has that ties CL to this murder isn't small and isn't questionable and her arrest, coming so much after AL's arrest, wasn't quick or hasty at all. I do not believe for one second that LE has charged CL with kidnapping and murder just to hold her because they feel like she is innocent but might be withholding some small bits of information from LE. Also, a phone being in her home that she shared with AL wouldn't be enough to arrest her for murder. If she was charged with receiving stolen goods (and the charge is because of BC's phone) then I believe LE has proof that CL received the phone into her possession, not just that someone placed it on her dresser in a room that (I assume) she shared with her husband. With that said, I also know that I would probably feel the same way about protecting my friend and try and think of reasons, no matter how improbable they might be, to convince myself that my friend had absolutely nothing to do with such a heinous and callous crime. NoJustice, you are doing a fine job of trying to point guilt away from your friend, deserved or not. No one should be placed in a situation in which they find themselves interviewing neighbors and associates because their friend is in jail for murder. Her actions, no matter how involved in this crime you believe her to be, have negatively effected everyone in her circle of friends and family and I feel for every one of them.
Something that bothered me when I read it mentioned upthread....if my husband was in jail for kidnapping and murder, I was in the process of having custody of my daughter taken away from me, couldn't pay my bills, and knew it was a possibility that LE would be arresting me as an accomplice to murder, as well, I think that LE confiscating my dirty underwear would be one of my last concerns....unless there is some evidence contained within that she is worried about. I guess we will have to wait and see.
MOO CL was there when BC was murdered and was directly responsible for her kidnapping (maybe she was the one who set up the meeting and lured BC to that house under false pretenses? Another wait and see....) If she was at school the night that BC was kidnapped it doesn't mean she didn't have anything to do with her kidnapping. If I was on the verge of being arrested for murdering someone I would do everything in my power to convince everyone around me, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I had NOTHING to do with the murder. If I was a murderer, lying through my teeth wouldn't be a stretch. All I can say about the nature of people is that people can be many different things to many different people. We show people what we want them to see of us. No one is a murderer...until they are.
We also have to remember that (and I say this with all due respect) the story of AL playing video games like any other day just a few short hours after BC's kidnapping is just that, a story from CL. It might be true, or it might be a lie told by someone who murdered and kidnapped someone. He may have been playing video games or he may not have been home or the two of them might have been doing something connected with the murder and kidnapping. We don't know what the true evidence is as it is all sealed. To me, CL's version of what occurred is just as believable as AL's version of what he said occurred, so I am taking it with a grain of salt.
I can definitely agree on one thing, CL made very bad decisions that effected all of her children. I am the same age as she is and would NEVER have put my children in the situation that she put hers in. If she had a great job she didn't need anyone to pay her bills for her. If she needed money, she should have gone back to work. She is a grown woman old enough to know better, or at the very least, old enough to figure it out relatively quickly and get OUT of a bad situation, if for no one else but for her daughter's sake. No way she didn't know the illegal activities that AL was up to. Unless I receive proof otherwise, it is my opinion that there is truth to the rumors about how the two of them were making money illegally online. AL treated her like crap....and she stayed and kept her daughter in that situation. I do not feel sorry for her. I feel sorry that CL's daughter has a mother who put her own needs above the well being of her daughter. It may be harsh but CL is in jail for murder and kidnapping. If she is guilty, she obviously had little regard for her daughter. I keep reading on this thread that CL made one bad decision after another. Perhaps it isn't too much of a stretch to believe that murder was another of those bad decisions she seemed to continually make since meeting AL.
CL was arrested for kidnapping and murder, while I understand some people's needs to stick up for her and try and paint a different picture of her on here, I don't think it is right to post negatively about her ex and her ex's new wife (who are also victims of CL's choices and will have to clean up the mess that she made in her daughter's life) when neither are sitting in jail charged with murder and kidnapping a stranger. CL AND AL are charged with the same exact crime. I think equally of both of them and will continue to unless one of them is released and their charges are dropped.
The later arrest of CL leads me also to believe that DNA and/or other forensic evidence is what is tying her to the crime.
Do we know if CL's car was one of the items that were taken by LE? We know LE has CL's dirty underwear and BC's phone....do we know what else they removed from the home?
I don't know the area around those parts at all so I would have to refer to those of you on here who live there. If there was a crime scene separate from the burial site, from the house that was for sale, and from CL's home how likely would it have hit the news? I assume we would have heard about it but want to make sure that the locals would agree. If there was no other "crime scene" then her death had to have occurred either at the For Sale home, in a transport vehicle, at CL's home, or at the burial location (as these are the areas we know LE has focused on throughout their investigation.)
Last, I have to agree with everyone who said it much better than I am about to...BC is the victim here (and her family and her friends.) Not AL. Not CL. AL & CL (for whatever reason) chose to kidnap and murder a woman much, much better than them. Makes me sick to my stomach. (And I believe we can post our opinion as such without being a lynch mob wanting to tar and feather someone without their due date in court.) Bottom line, it is Beverly that did not deserve what happened at the hands of those two. I believe that LE knows what they are doing and that BOTH AL & CL are exactly where they belong. I may be wrong (as I have been in the past) but if both are, indeed, guilty of their charges, I hope they rot in jail for what they did to Beverly and her family.
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