It goes without saying that LE put Leanna into the interview room with her husband because they wanted to observe what these two said to each other and how they responded to one another regarding the horrific death of their child.<br />
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Granted, we have only heard snippets of what was said between them, but those snippets of conversation are, IMO, eyebrow-raising and deserve every bit of scrutiny by LE and the public that they're receiving.<br />
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Ross: "I can't believe I'm being punished for this!" "I'm going to lose my job!"<br />
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Leanna: "Did you say too much?"<br />
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Their child had just died a horrid death. A few hours earlier, RH had pulled his deceased baby out of his car. He felt with his own hands and saw with his own eyes that Cooper was in rigor mortis (even if he didn't know the medical term for it). I think that alone would be enough to cause any caring, innocent parent to hate themselves for what they had caused their precious baby to suffer.<br />
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If I was LE and had been on the other side of that two-way mirror, I would have expected to see/hear a father beat himself up (and perhaps even to spontaneously cry out to his child's spirit) for causing his child's death, if that father had truly "forgotten" he'd left his child in the car, instead of "huffing" trying to hyperventilate and trying to work up emotion.<br />
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Something along the lines of: "Cooper!!! I'm so sorry Li'l Buddy! I love you!" If truly grieving and incapable of uttering words, then I would have expected to hear/see unintelligible moaning or crying.<br />
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Genuine emotion doesn't require summoning - it comes naturally. That soon after his child's death, I would have expected an innocent father to be more concerned with the torture his helpless baby had endured and to be devastated that his child was dead, instead of being concerned with himself or his job. <br />
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If I was LE and had observed Leanna ask her husband "Did you say too much?" the alarm bells in my head would have been screaming "WTH????" - and apparently those alarm bells were, according to Detective Stoddard's testimony.<br />
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I would have expected LH to have demanded answers from her husband. I would have expected LH to have at least asked RH "How could you have forgotten him????" or "How could you have left him in the car ALL DAY????" I might even have expected LH to have tried to beat the living daylights out of her husband and I would have asked a uni to stand outside the door just in case she needed to be pulled off him (after I let her deliver a few well-deserved blows upside his head). <br />
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"Did you say too much?" is the last thing I would have expected a loving, protective mother to ask her husband (very shortly after learning that her baby was dead). I would NOT have expected her to be concerned that her husband had said "too much" - in fact, "Did you say too much?" is the exact opposite of what I would have expected her to ask the man who was responsible for her baby's death.<br />
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If her baby was at all important to that mother, I would have expected her to have been more concerned with her baby & what he had suffered than with what her husband may or may not have said to LE.<br />
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Leanna: "Did you say too much?"<br />
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Instead of: "How could you have left him in the car all day???" "Stop whining about your job!!! Our baby is dead!!!"<br />
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It's clear to me (based on her statements and actions since Cooper's death) that Leanna's priority is not her baby. In my opinion, her top priority is trying to protect the reputation of a repugnant façade of a husband/father. I couldn't care less if she may or may not have low self esteem, or if RH may or may not have been the first man to show interest in her, or if she may or may not have felt that she couldn't do any better than him.<br />
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When she became a mother, her first priority should have been her child. After her child died at the hands of her husband, her first priority should have still been her child.<br/>
As a mother of two small boys 8 months& 2 years) and a daughter who was stillborn, I couldn't have said that better myself. I agree 100%, thanks button wasn't enough. Something very off about moms behavior IMO.
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