She's LUCKY she got the light sentence she got, she deserves every minute of it and then some.
She opted to stick to the (alibi) script to her own detriment, and once FD exited stage left, she chose poorly again.
Were she a sympathetic figure, she could have chosen a different defense. (Or for OUR sakes, a different pair of attorneys.) She could have postured herself as an unwittingly accomplice, duped by the velvet don juan, but it's an act I doubt she could pull off. Because you'd have to care. You'd have to care that your selfishness and entitlement and jealously provoked a landmine, and that give children are forever without a mother -- and a father -- and your hand was on that grenade.
Telling what she knew then, telling what she knows now could have been a way to appeal to jurors. And no, not that pitiable screed she delivered at sentencing. I mean a soul-baring confession, not to incriminate or spare herself, but to give five children a chance to know where their mother is, more than under bleach on a garage floor, more than misted across a pair of clear ponchos, more than what a saturated shirt and bra contains. The truth. As she knows it. What FD told her. What FD didn't tell her. How long it took, how far he went...
If she had at least that much dignity, she could have wept, broken down for all that loss
A sympathic jury might have been moved by that, the judge too. Reflected at sentencing.
But she didn't. She hasn't. And I suspect she cannot.
Because she's not sorry.
Mother Theresa, horse whisperer, friend to the downtrodden, she is full entirely of herself. Jennifer was in her way. FD was taking too long. Five children wouldn't choose her over their mother. FD managed to get caught. She's got a whole list of people who she no doubt feels done her wrong.
I'm sorry, appeal nothing, her sentence ought to be doubled, on account of being just straight despicable.
If she ever wants to know what class and mercy feel like, she should give JFd's loved ones the trove of information that will lead them to her.
A man's murdered wife's body was just found, sealed in a commercial tank, hiding in plain sight. I think Jennifer's body received the same. He had a plan that started before that day ... JFd is somewhere there IMO. Perhaps parceled out but in a place or places he could access from 80 MS. A defunct tank, buried. Entombed beneath a slab or within a foundation. Vertical in a horizontal space.
But here we are.
Of her own doing, MT warrants no mercy.
For she has shown none.
JMO