ABro, why do you think MM begged Smich not to go on the TB mission? .
I'm not sure where you get the idea she "begged" Smich not to go. I went back to my notes from the trial and this was what was said after Fraser asked her what she said about the plan to steal the truck.
Meneses: I already told them don't go but no one listened to me, but I had plans to go to my sister's house.
Fraser: Did you do anything else to discourage [the plan]?
Meneses: Yeah I said something to him to try and change his mind but nothing changed his mind.
Obviously they had been on many of them before, so what made that one different? The only explanation could be that she had some prior knowledge about what was happening.
There's no record of her reaction to previous thieving missions or even if she knew about them. There's no basis whatsoever to claim her reaction to the planned truck theft was different.
This girl was present at LBs murder.
She was in the same house at the time the murder allegedly took place. That's all we know. Smich could have told her to stay in her room. She may have had headphones on and been stoned.
She was present for her cremation. She was with DM and MS as they returned from murdering/cremating TB. What did she have to tell us about any of these events? They seemed happy? My feeling is that she is telling the truth but that she is omitting anything that shows her prior knowledge.
That they seemed happy is a pretty whopping big piece of evidence. And again, there is absolutely nothing that indicates she had any prior knowledge of a murder. This is a leap you make based on your belief she was "begging" and that she had acted differently at prior thefts, but I see no evidence to support either of these hypotheses.
I don't care what anyone says, if a boyfriend admits to his girlfriend that he has killed and burned two people, she should run and not announce her plans to marry the guy.
Agree 100%. She had very bad judgment when it came to Smich.
That in itself shows me the kind of person she is, and those are the kinds of traits that you cannot change in a person. Either you know right from wrong or you don't. But when you are a cute little girl you can fool a lot of people with a few tears.
She was completely besotted with Smich. In her mind he was the sophisticated older guy who rescued her from her troubled home life. Due to her weird sense of "loyalty," she stuck by him until his arrest and even after it. She was deluded and in denial and she did bad things because of it.
YOu are free to think what you want of her but it's highly unlikely the jury at the Bosma trial shared your view that she is a liar. Her evidence was key to the conviction.
I don't respect what she did in her relationship with Smich, but I do respect her for the way she has turned her life around and what I believe to be her honest testimony at both trials.