Yes! I understand that AC is slowly buiding her case, but it's moving at a snail's pace. I had no idea the prosecution considered Tabitha's testimony was so crucial to the case. (to spend this much time on her testimony)
She's a brave woman. I'm glad she has chosen to share her experiences with the world.
I think part of it is she had first hand understanding of how they operated and she's shared some of that. She also has the FB messages with Hannah and since we don't have her text message content because they took her phone, we at least have these messages to show some of this stuff that otherwise might not get into evidence!
I think because of the family dynamic, she probably felt she couldn't win. She was young, naive, no money, no home. She was intimidated by them.
I don't think we've seen the extent of what she went through. She was afraid for her life, but not for her son. She was the problem (in Angela's mind) not her son.
This is the kind of incremental fact that begins to build the conspiracy---that Angela was the leader and G4 went along. Taking the baby away from his (the baby's) parents, making the wife leave the marital bedroom to make way for the husband's mother to "scratch his back," dictating who got to play with the child---that's cult-level control, David Koresh, Jim Jones level stuff.
So horrible qnd having to deal with the stress of this during her pregnancy. Infuriating!
Yes, note the ways the Wagners tried to discredit her using false complaints of domestic violence on her part, waving a gun around, having drugs in her car--and the way Angela drugged TC's daughter. Her family did not live in the immediate area and was clearly not as influential. Note how SHE ends up with a domestic violence charge the night she fled for her life. These people were diabolical in the ways that they made her appear to be the violent, crazy one. Once she agreed to "supervised visitation," which at her age she had no way to understand, they had her until she was old enough to start fighting back. By that time, the Rhodens were dead and she had to know what could happen to her and her family. Don't discount the fear she must have felt after April 2016, seeing the Wagners running around free and taking off for Alaska.What resources would she have to mount an interstate custody fight?
Three reasons this seems slow:
BW was not there at the home, from state opening the only time all 4 Wagner phones were together was on the night of murders, so BW must have discussed it over the phone as he was living on the Flying W at this time,
Agree. It's probably the same way Wagners intimidated a lot of people in the area. Wagners had access to money and influence to hire lawyers and get court rulings in their favor. In this case, they preyed on vulnerable young women who didn't have the financial resources to hire a good attorney.