Hello dear websleuthers, this is my first post here.
I am in no way a "Pistorian" I don't even like the guy, I find him very egoistic, shallow and generally unsympathetic.
But I believe in the saying that
justice should be blind and without emotion/speculation.
I followed the whole trial (watched it all on youtube, some parts more often than one time) and spent the last months reading here and at DS (often hours of reading, this case fascinates me).
What I want to say is I try to look at the whole thing very objectivley, and sofar nearly nothing proves that Pistorius killed her
knowingly/intentionnaly.
With maybe 2 exceptions: The duvet/jeans/blood trail/fan thing and the witnesses who say they heard intermingled voices of a man and woman.
But even for those two one could find explanations, maybe not absolutley reasonable ones, but still explanations that would work.
Anyway the reason for my post is, I recently watched a crime documentary on youtube about a man accused of killing his wife, and his call to 911 was recorded and I have to say imo this man does indeed sound like a woman when he screams in his panic - so it IS possible that the whole
Oscar = female screams could be very well true.
I just wanted to share this with you, because I have read here SO often that many are totally firm in their opinion that no man could ever scream like a panicked or terrified woman and that the female screams heard therefore MUST be Reeva and that is the main reason why they believe OP is 100% guilty.
Imo this is not true, men
can scream in the most high pitched and unrecognisable ways especially (if not only) in such a horrifying situation, but because it does not happen so often in such a way we are not used to it and therefore many people will not believe it.
When the trial started I didn't believe it too btw, and I thought Roux was joking when he said it was OP screaming.
But since then I changed my mind about that, it can be true that it was him.
Here is the video-link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMy-nQT63tA
or you can search it on youtube:
Lina's Heart HD
go to around 1:30, the 911 call is in the beginning of the video.
Interestingly the man got not convicted for murder - imo the right decision, there was no evidence that he had anything to do with it.
Another interesting thing about it: he found his wife also in the bathroom/toilet and there is even a magazine rack that plays a part too in this case.
Sorry btw for my maybe bad english - it is not my first language.
I will continue reading here, I just wish there would be more balance between people that 100% believe he did it intentionally and people who still have their doubts if or if not he is this cold-blooded killer many if not most here see in him (maybe a better word is hot-blooded? most here seem to think he did not plan this days before or so, it was because of his rage in their opinion that he killed her).
As for me: I am sadly really still undecided if he is guilty of Murder1, I wish I could be sure, but I am not, and as long I am not 100% sure with 100% damning evidence I will say Masipa's judgement was correct that it was not Murder1.
Dolus Eventualis is another question, I am not sure if her decision was right not to convict him of that.
One last thing: could you live with the fact that if you are wrong in your believe that he is 100% guilty and it later turns out with proof it happened as he said?
(and I know he changed his story in some ways - but for me this is no reason to think he is a murderer, many innocent people do that to make themselves look better, and he is no "good" person generally imo, he just is no (proven) murderer!)
Could you live with it that your prejudice/your firm opinion would send a man away for life in prison or even the death penalty if you were a judge or juror in such a case?
(I know this is not the case now with OP, but speaking generally)
I know I could not!
