scapa
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Is there any POSSIBLE way Lori actually believed Chad had hidden the kids away, and that they were still alive? Could he have convinced her he'd sent the kids into hiding to save them from either earthly danger or spiritual darkness - when all along he just wanted to dispose of them, just as he did with TD? Could all this have been his doing from the start?
Def sounds like a possible (if not plausible) defence strategy, but a hard sell to any jury who will wonder why and how the mother of these kids would entrust their care to a zealous zombie-fighting "visionary" who has already by his spiritual grading system made his views on them and their worth pretty clear. To expect him to protect that which he feared makes no sense to a reasonable person, IMO., plus all the other evidence (service dog, meds) that point to LVD knowing that JJ was in no position to need the stuff he depended on.
I also suspect that LVD's attempts to convince MG that JJ was already a zombie, as a self-confessed warrior in the Great Portal Wars would tend to implicate her, in that she was fully aware of the lengths CD was prepared to go to in order to protect them/save the world/whatever nonsense was being peddled at the time. So she can make that claim but it's a perilously weak one. And it admits that she a) placed TR/JJ in his care and b) did so knowing what he was capable of.
I think this was a case of two parties working towards a shared end, under cover of a bogus doomsday religiosity that ratified the brutal means of this end. So cruel, as well as murderous.
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