Lawyer Lee giving us nuggets to consider. MT was tethered to FD on May 24th. However, MT needed wanted to tether a few alibis for herself and used Petu for that end. Twice.
Petu safely occupies 45 min of MT's morning as well as time during the evening's Albany Odyssey. MT did not include the Albany Odyssey in her alibi script but being in Hartford included speaking to Petu. Defense implies that MT didn't know what Fotis was doing or she wouldn't be a part of doing it with him. MT's carrying on, per usual, on phone with friends and family. In reality, Michelle is creating an alibi.
I have a strong feeling that even with Jen erased from the picture by the two of them, FD&MT, still could not get along. Michelle continued to find something to fuss about and would not shut up but she was tied to the area bc of her child's school. Hence, Fotis quickly fled into the arms of AC.
Question for locals, please. Do you typically, usually or seldom burn logs in indoor fireplaces near the end of the month of May?
Fire:
The way I thought about the fire issue was specific to the weather on that day in 2019 when it was quite warm. That day was warm and sunny and I can recall being in Waveny and noticing that for the first time in awhile that the sun had actual warmth to it. So often in Spring you can have sunshine but it doesn't generate much warmth which is why some people have fires throughout Springtime depending on the temp and chill or damp factor. After walking in Waveny in the morning that day it wouldn't hit me as a day for a fire at all as by the afternoon it was almost hitting 70 degrees iirc. Just me.
The other issue iirc was that for some reason which I could never understand which was 4Jx got its heating from propane vs natural gas or petroleum/heating oil or electricity. I seem to recall ages ago someones estimating that the then cost to fill up the propane tank at 4JX was in the range $8,000. The house was 10,000sf too. We know FD died owing money for heating iirc in the range of $11,000 or so.
Perhaps MT was simply burning fires to keep warm as they couldn't afford to heat the house (I'm not saying this is what she was doing on the 24th as that was a warm day) but my guess is that house with all the brick and marble could be a damp tomb in the winter and into the early spring and keeping it warm expensive and a challenge.
4JX - Info:
Heating and Cooling
- Cooling Features: Central Air
- Heating Features: Heat Fuel Type: Propane, Heat Type: Hydro Air
- Heating Fuel: Propane
- Number of Fireplaces: 4
CT Spring weather can be all over the map and we have had some wild snow or ice on Easter and I can remember having a big fire for easter some years and other years not needed. Recent weather patterns have generally trended warmer so by May, fires I wouldn't consider typical at all indoors but some use fire pits outdoors. The other thing is that springs in CT can be chilly and damp and so depending on what is going on a small fire might be nice imo as fire can take the damp and chill away from the house.
But, the other tip off to me about the MT fire scenario is that most people would NEVER leave their house with an active fire. There have been so many horrific house fires with active fires or even completed fires with inappropriately handled ashes.
On the FD/MT not getting along:
I think you highlighting this issue is 'spot on' as to what most likely was going on in the relationship at the time. Lots of bickering and MT constantly reminding FD that it was 'tick tock' on the issue of divorce and custody etc. I can imagine FD simply checking out and scrolling his phone for the names of other folks. When did he 'reconnect' with Anna Curry? I bet LE knows. I doubt MT knows!
Given the Family Court situation based on 'reality' vs 'Horn and Mini Horn" I would have bet the couple was really arguing alot. FD had lied to MT about being at 69 Welles and that sounded like an incendiary situation to say the least. My guess things were really tense money wise too as FD was strapped for cash and trying to figure out how to pay the heating bills and other bills needed to survive. My guess FD didn't even have the cash to cover the monthly requirements of his houses as we saw him slipping behind in his mortgages during this period. CT taxes can be oppressive depending on location so I simply don't see how he was covering things. Looking at how his estate settled it looked like he wasn't.
IDK if anyone felt that the "New Beginnings aka Murder Eve Dinner Party" was quite odd and FD and MT seemed somewhat disconnected to each other and doing their own thing that evening. I do wonder if MT was annoyed at having people over and I do wonder if seeing FD leave the party to do a "Meat Run" and speak to or see KM ticked her off. OR, was she simply annoyed that she worked hard to sell Mr and Mrs Bland some pony rugs to keep the lights on at 4JX and they told her 'she didn't have the colours that we needed' and so this ticked her off? IDK, dynamic of that dinner party where the participants all used the word "HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY" over and over to describe the event had me scratching my head and wondering if the vibe was not in reality far from that?
Given that MT was very much up in FD business, I wonder if the move to CO was to lower expenses as the couple could no longer afford to live in Farmington area?
On the Petu comment of MT going to CO. Petu never clearly explained (by design) if MT was going by herself or with FD. My guess is that if they were still together as a couple by that time CO made sense for them as the apt was small and not expensive vs Farmington.
On the topic of disingenuous Defence witnesses (yep we see you Petu), the other person in this category was the lawyer who hit the stand in the Troconis trial claiming that, "FD was winning"!
Perhaps on Mars imo as Rose had been FD atty for just a couple of months, submitted iirc 5 motions (custody, financials, visitation and a couple of harassing motions directed at JF her atty) to Judge Heller and Judge Heller DENIED THEM ALL. YET, today searching out the cesspit that is the local MSM news who pops up but NONE OTHER THAN Atty Rose with hair poofed up bigger than ever and in full makeup and chatting about the case! The Atty Rose testimony that I found probably in the category for being a contender for "Biggest Whopper on the Stand by a Defence Witness" was the entire gyrations Schoenhorn and Rose (two longstanding compadres imo in the smear campaign against JF) to distance MT from the FD divorce/custody drama (this was BS imo as MT and Mama Troconis etc. had been all over the process for years to the point of reading the discredited Herman report and drawing up 67 questions for a psychologist to see if 'she was safe' nonsense from JF). Anyway, my point was the laughable comment from Rose on the stand about FD not wanting to talk to him about the divorce in front of MT. Total whopper but it oddly makes sense as Rose HAD NO GOOD NEWS TO SHARE and if MT were already crazed at FD and wanting things resolved then of course FD wouldn't want Rose speaking in front of MT imo!
But, I do say, seeing members of the CT Bar, hit the stand with one Whopper after another was disappointing to say nothing of disgusting. There was NO 'light at the end of the tunnel' for FD and MT and "All was not good and the parties were NOT happy" either as there was no good news in Family Court and the money was literally up in smoke. It was imo even more GROSS to see Schoenhorn refer to Meehan and Rose as 'the Professionals or Experts" in his Closing as if to give them some kind of veneer of respectability or even creditability. Just can say, "Whopper to that' Jon Schoenhorn. All I can say is if any of these three alleged professionalsare in your orbit, WATCH YOUR WALLET and EXIT STAGE LEFT PRONTO.
I won't post the Rose TV clip from today here as between GAL Atty Michael Meehan or Atty Michael Rose, I'm not sure who told the bigger whoppers on the stand in this case and these guys are hitting the airwaves simply for a few extra moments in the spotlight? I think they both told one whopper after another on the stand and not surprisingly they are hanging their slimy shingles out next to professionals of similar calibre imo to themselves in the form of Jon Schoenhorn and the person whose name I never recall but think it might be Audrey Felson. Gotta love the CT Bar and Corrupticut.
Long answers to some interesting issues!
MOO
