I am going to preface this with MOO and IMO. It is also not a statement of judgement or disparaging SM's character. I think she was the epitome of kind, compassionate and empathetic.
The text that MM received from SM on Friday was alarming but not in a way of SM's life being threatened? She was not afraid (according to MM), she did not fear for her life or she would have done something. She said it was lengthy, transparent, honest, revealing... MM's response was "I need to pray about this". Why would she delete it? Why would she be so concerned about it getting into the wrong hands? She didn't speak to BM. Really think about that.
To me, maybe SM had met someone that she had interest in. Her marraige had eroded so vastly and her health had just begun to turn around. Maybe she finally believed she deserved better. I believe she deserved to have someone that cherished her. To me, this explains so much about the text. No cause for immediate alarm, giving it strong consideration by her big sister, deleting it as to ensure nobody else sees it. Rage by BM after uncovering something that threatened him, the girls not really speaking out, the Motion by the Judge claiming the girls are victims. I am not saying there was infidelity on her part. The interview certainly spells out there was on BM's part. However, maybe she met someone that she had interest in...
Again, please don't shoot the messenger. It's simply an opinion based on all of the pieces of the puzzle. Much of this case makes no sense, this would explain many of those things. One of many possible scenarios.
It certainly seems more than likely on BM's part but I had never considered the other side as well.
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was sensing
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before all of this even occurred yes
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i'd be happy to chris um
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it was friday
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may the 8th um suzanne
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that morning had sent me a very lengthy
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text
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i won't go into the content that is um
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given
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over to the authorities but i can give
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you a general sense
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of um the text and and what it said to
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me
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uh it was a very lengthy text you know
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when it comes in those chunks and it
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just keeps rolling
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and it was significant i
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uh it was it kind of came as a surprise
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um because there was nothing of our
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conversations that led up to this so it
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was just
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kind of like boom and uh i read the text
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that morning
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and i was um
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i wasn't shocked i've always known i
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mean suzanne and i
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let's let's just say this
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let's say it this way i'll use my
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mother's words
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my mother used to say over the many
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years
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she'd say i'd never believe i'd have
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two daughters who would marry men who
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were so much alike
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i'll just leave it at that okay so
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suzanne and i
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had a a journeys together
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we had intuitive journeys we had
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unspoken journeys
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um we identified a lot
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we identified a lot that morning i got
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this
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text and
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i was i was not surprised because i felt
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the secrecy the the quietness the
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isolation i could see these things
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developing and i knew that suzanne was
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doing her work in eleanor
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she continued and and she she had told
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a friend of ours that it was the best
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decision she ever made and she was so
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glad i had
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encouraged her to do that you know it
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was good work
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good work for her yeah definitely um
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so that that i'm i'm so grateful for um
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but that morning that text was was so
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transparent
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it was raw uh there was there
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was not a cry for help there was no uh
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i'm in danger there was none of that
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you know i would have immediately gone
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into action
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but it was it was a very transparent
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text
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which told me and and has told the
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authorities her state of mind
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that morning it's very clear uh it's a
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powerful text
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and it was so powerful at the time
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that this was going to sound funny but
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i have accidentally in the past
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forwarded the wrong text to the wrong
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person have you ever done that
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thinking you're forwarding this to that
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person and it goes to the wrong person
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you should see me drive we are okay okay
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so
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so that was the one of the first things
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i thought of i thought
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oh i i can't leave this on my phone
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i could accidentally text that to the
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wrong person
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and i don't want that to fall in the
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wrong hands so it went into my heart
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and i decided i would delete that text
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and but
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before i did i had texted her
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immediately back
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and i had said to her i need to pray
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about this because i want to respond
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correctly
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it wasn't going to be shoot from the hip
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big sister it was going to be
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you need some real wisdom here you know
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on how to
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help her navigate and like i said it
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wasn't wasn't she wasn't in danger
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that would have been easy to do but i
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wanted to be thoughtful in my
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response to her and and respectful of
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who she is
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so um she's she said i'll read you the
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last text she sent me because i still
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have it on my phone
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her response back to me just a minute i
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want to say it exactly i don't
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i don't want to what time did the text
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come in that morning if you remember
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just a minute i'll tell you because i've
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got the um
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her response um
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i responded to her at 11 35 a.m
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that was tennessee time and uh
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it came she immediately came back um
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i told her i said i'm going to pray
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before responding further i care
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and she responded immediately within one
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minute she said i appreciate your love
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and transparency always and that was the
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last thing
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my sister ever said to me
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and i keep that text i cherish that text
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from her
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and i texted her one day at a time i
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said one day at a time
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so that was that was the only thing i
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responded to her at that moment
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and i i really didn't have a response
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for her
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um and it is my it is my belief as her
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sister
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uh saturday was a very hard day for me
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uh that night when i went to bed i had
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an unbelievable grief that came over me
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and i did and i didn't know why i i did
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not
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know why and my my devotion for that day
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was from the book of job uh which i read
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that night and it says the lord the lord
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giveth and the lord taketh blessed be
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the name of the lord
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and it was all all about learning to
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praise god when things are not the way
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we want
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you know not just when we get it the way
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we want it but
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sometimes we learn to we learn to thank
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god and be grateful when we don't get
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what we want
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and and it was um that night was very
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difficult and
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another friend of hers had a similar
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experience on saturday night
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and it is my belief that my sister went
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on to be with the lord on saturday night
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and um that's that's what i feel in my
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heart
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and saturday night or friday night
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well i believe
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saturday but
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we'll wait to see we'll wait to see
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we'll wait to see
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all right we intuitively
Linked to MM interview.