Hello again! I haven't posted here in ages, but I do check in from time to time. When a friend emailed me the link to the Chicago Tribune story today, I knew there would be commentary here.
To me, as horrible and false as Heather's videos are, they are not wigged out ramblings. They are carefully calculated to advance her position. Note these two claims she makes:
1. Her mother murdered her father.
2. Heather alone committed the murder of Sheila. Tommy and his cousin are innocent of any wrongdoing before or during the murder.
I'll repeat: these are scurrilous lies. But I think she's said these things for very particular reasons.
1. Heather still hopes to gain the money. Her first volley in a battle to discredit her mother's right to the money was to claim a while back that her mother cheated her of her inheritance, and that it was her father's intention that she, Heather, get the money. I believe she embarked on this course because she feared a loss in the Slayer Rule battle. If the money is hers by right even before her mother's death, then her murder of her mother doesn't allow a Slayer Rule finding against Heather.
She's attempting to strengthen her right to the money by this new claim: as a murderer, her mother never had any right to the inheritance because of the Slayer Rule! Heather is next in line, so the money is rightfully hers. She's a sly fox, although how any lawyer could turn James Mack's death into a murder is beyond me. Nonetheless I'm sure there are nuggets she is holding back concerning this line of attack.
But Heather still has a problem. If she gets the money and buys her way out of prison she will always live in worry of a criminal charge against her in the US. She may not be able (or willing) to live forever out of the US in a extradition-free zone, so she needs to address that problem. Hence:
2. There never was any conspiracy. I'm guessing whatever legal advice she is getting is concentrating on the possible conspiracy charge facing her. It doesn't come with a double jeopardy defense, as a new trial for murder in the US would.
How to eliminate that problem? Eliminate the conspiracy. Her admission to being the sole murderer and "explaining" the incriminating texts is her defense against conspiracy.
I don't think for a moment she will prevail in any of these battles, but when you're in jail with nothing better to do than think up more scheming falsehoods, this is the result. Her lies are carefully designed to aid her in further skullduggery and injustice. Even though I'm sure she'll fail, I hate the idea that she may be feeling some hope right now, because she believes in her own ability to get what she wants.
