I've been reading these threads for about a week now. I'm no detective. I have no professional training. I'm just a mother of two college students whose heart strings were pulled when an innocent girl was stolen from this world. This girl could have been my daughter. Every person in Louisiana has some sort of tie with that school. You either went there, your child goes there, or your neighbor's child goes there. What happened is horrific, and I have tried to wrap my head around it as best I can.
The absolute strength of the Shunick family amazes me. I don't know how they are able to do what they have and continue to do. The thought of not knowing where my child is takes my breath away, and they are living this nightmare.
I think of LP's children. My heart hurts for them, because I think of my own children. I can only hope they know that even though she made mistakes, she was their mother, and that they truly realize there is no force on earth greater than a mother's love. I would hope they know they were more than likely her last thoughts.
I also have a son. I try to put myself in the shoes of BSL's mother. I cannot fathom the horror this poor woman is living right now. I can only imagine she's torn between trying to figure how this could have happened, heartbreak over the loss of her son, guilt for the pain of others and outright disgust for the crime(s).
My heart breaks for her, as well.
There are no answers that will come soon enough, but based on just sitting back and reading, linking to different sources and studying what's been said, I'm afraid we can't see the forest for the trees with this. I don't believe BSL to be a criminal genius. In fact, I believe he works more on convenience and opportunity than anything else.
I truly believe the placement of LP's body was a move made strictly because he knew the occcupant of the house had just died and it made a perfect hiding place. Nothing more. I don't believe the accident had anything to do at all with the murder of LP, other than the fact that CH was involved and she claims to have been stalked by him.
I'm not impressed with her or anything she has said. She just seems shady to me, as if she has an axe to grind with the community in general. It's almost as if she's seeking justification for her own poor judgment in life through this.
I think if we all take a step back and think of what simple location would have been convenient to BSL of May 19th, we will find Mickey there.
I have to trust that LE has good evidence. I believe they always keep an ace in the hole, just in case they need it at trial.
With that, I don't really know what else to say. My heart just hurts. If any one of these youngs lives was my child, I honestly don't know what I'd do.
Thanks for giving me a place to spill my heart. I am so grateful to have found a group of people who seems to be as gripped to this as me.