77dh7:
1.) just because she was told the location she was being taken was 2 hours away doesn't mean it actually was (remember, he was planning on murdering her....he wasn't being 100% truthful.) however, the mine is 1.5-2.5 hours from the center of town, depending on how experienced someone was in driving there and how slow they drove.
the poster i responded to suggested that erin "knew" that the place chris was taking her to that day, and that it was the same place where she was eventually found. They found some significance in that belief. I merely reminded the poster that ostensibly erin believed it was 2 hours away. Having said that, rose of peru mine is 22 miles (give or take ) from highway 62 @ gold crown road. 62 & gcr is 18.5 miles from adobe @ indian trail which is a few blocks north of the center of town. For a total of 40.5 miles. For most of the trip, you'd be going at least 50/hour. The very latest you'd arrive there in a 4wd jeep would be an hour and 20 mins or so. It's very rough terrain, but a jeep can make it there np
2.) he used an app to text her and, more than likely, vice versa. Messages, more than likely between them, wouldn't be recoverable by le.
again, there should still be a record of phone or data usage, and they have not produced that yet.
3.) his jeep tracks were found by her car.
as i said they would be. N could have "borrowed" it from her husband.
4.) he admitted to using his propane tank to try and blow up a mine the day erin disappeared but that "it didn't work". His propane tank was found in the very mine shaft with erin. Coincidence? Hardly. (surely he would have taken le to the propane tank if he had abandoned it anywhere else but in the very same mine as erin ended up being in.)
5.) he lied to the police, didn't have a "normal" innocent person's reaction to his pregnant lover's murder, and still shows zero emotion in court when faced with photos of his former lover's decomposing body. If he was innocent he would have a reaction close to those who loved her and are there. He is acting exactly like someone who is 100% guilty and doesn't know how to act like he is innocent.
5.) he admitted to doing searches on how to dispose of a body and told his friends he was smart enough to get away with murder...which isn't very smart and brings me to the following.....
6.) criminals aren't the sharpest tools in the shed. Chris made a lot of mistakes; it doesn't mean he wasn't involved nor does it point to someone else's involvement....it simply means he wasn't too bright.
these last three are examples of chris's strange behavior. They could be explained by him not yet being ready to make a decision about what he might have learned. Hypothetically, would you be so quick to turn your wife in if she had confessed to you? What if she's the only one in the relationship who's mature enough to care for your toddler daughter? He might not care about his wife enough not to cheat, but he could still care about his own flesh and blood
7.) women marry men in the military all.the.time. And those great and decent heroes move all over the country and world with their wives and families in tow. This isn’t abuse. They don’t force their wives to do this. Hundreds of thousands of women do this willingly and happily to stay with the man they love while they serve this great country. It is ridiculous to try and liken this scenario to one of abuse and/or control.
my own personal feelings about the military aside, most women who choose the military life are older and much more mature than erin was. Younger immature girls don't yet have experience enough to make those kind of life decisions. True, no one physically made her go there, but people as starry eyed in love have done a lot of things they didn't want to do to better the life of their one true love. My contention is that no one ever returned that favor to her in this case.
8.) there isn't a conspiracy theory at work here. Occam's razor...and all of the jazz.
9.) differences of opinions are fine however it is clearly against the rules of this forum to keep blaming innocent victims (including victim's family members) of a murder they aren't accused of, weren't arrested for, aren't on trial for, and were not involved in.
it is not my intention to blame the husband of the deceased for the sake of it. It is my intention to offer an alternative plausible theory of what happened. One that better fits all of the evidence produced by the crime. Including the beasley sighting, and why nichole would have had to lie to the police over something she apparently knew nothing about, they clearly have no answer for that considering they've singled out only 'one person' as the perpetrator here. You can't just pick and choose what evidence is included to prove your theory. You have to make a theory that explains all of the evidence you've gathered. They have yet to do that.
(a big thank you to everyone who has been following the trial and posting what has occurred thus far!)
erin's family, friends and loved ones are in my thoughts and prayers during this difficult time. May justice be swift and bring closure to those who loved her.
