JMoose, I think FD was a smart enough man that when he read the AA and fully absorbed all the evidence that LE at that time shared to secure his arrest, he KNEW he was sunk.
This is exactly what I have been saying. He killed himself because he knew the authorities had it all, or mostly, figured out, and he was going to prison for life, if he didn’t check out. MT, on the other hand, is listening to Mama A, who is telling her not to make a deal, just keep on the offensive. What horrible, stupid people. Early on, she could have saved herself from a long prison term-but she is a dummy.
What I fear is that MT may be the only living person who knows what happened to JFD's remains and that she may use that as the only valuable card she holds to negotiate length of prison term.
I wonder if the Farber family would prefer to get her remains back in exchange for a lighter sentence for MT? They might, I think. But I don’t think MT will pony up that information-I think she wants to maintain that she is completely innocent of all of it. I wonder it KM knows exactly what happened to JFD’s remains?
It was-her lawyer was responsible for virtually all of the delays. They are now re-writing history.
Their daughter and the choices she has made are their time, peace, and energy drain and the source of tremendous stress.
Perfectly expressed, Diddian. I wish I’d said it.
If she's going to have a no-body defense and implicate JFD as a "gone-girl", I wonder if the state will call NP as a witness, as to what FD's defense was going to be--that the bloody evidence was left on FD's porch and he thought someone was trying to frame him. That would mean that FD acknowledged something horrible had happened to JFD. IMO, NP can't cite atty-client privilege, because that was waived when FD said in his suicide note that his attorney would prove his innocence--and then by NP when he divulged what FD told him.
It’s an interesting thought but I am not so sure if I am the prosecution I would want Norm anywhere near that court.
Do you think they may play the “no body, no proof she is dead” card? I wonder…she hasn’t completely thrown fD under the bus yet; the worst she’s said about hin since this whole thing started was that she maybe should not have trusted him, which is pretty mild if he and he alone got her into this jam. I still can’t figure out why she hasn’t gone “scorched earth” on fD’s reputation-choosing instead to go after Jennifer’s reputation. Why would she choose to do this? Is she afraid that if she sullies fD’s good name, that someone who cares about him, and knows what she did, will spill? Or is it more likely that her actions are completely intertwined with his, and so if he is guilty, then she is, too? Most of the time, a person accused of a murder conspiracy will quickly point the finger at obe of the others, but she isn’t doing that. It is clearly a part of her defense strategy, but I can’t figure it out. I wonder if she toyed with a self-defense strategy? Remember when she claimed to be afraid that Jennifer was going to come after her?
I don't think a no-body defense that implicates JFD as a "gone girl" would sell at any level. JFD - who, based on what little I've seen, seemed an introverted and quiet personality - had nevertheless proven herself a warrior with depth as a mother, going to substantial lengths to keep her children safe from FD's attempts at manipulating them. So, it makes zero sense that she'd abandon her children - potentially leaving them entirely subject to such manipulations.
JS would only ask questions that he already knew the answers to, and would only ask questions that would be helpful to MT. But the prosecution…hmmm, now what would they ask? That might be interesting. Could he answer JS’s questions and refuse to answer those of the prosecution? On second thought, I don’t think JS would let NP anywhere near the witness stand, even if NP wanted to be there, which he probably wouldn’t.
Interesting speculation. The accident was on I-84 in Tolland, CT. (ETA: accident occurred 5/17/2019.)
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I don’t doubt that fD told her it was fool-proof, and she believed him. He probably claimed that he could keep her safe from prosecution, hence that business in the suicide note.
Colangelo gave a lot of importance to FD's note--re FD's allegation that MT & KM didn't have anything to do with what happened to JFD== RC asked how FD would know that if he wasn't involved. Though if the state was going to use the note as evidence, it would've had to be disclosed to JS, who didn't file a motion to exclude it, that I know of. I think the state could still bring it into evidence during the trial to impeach something JS might argue.
