Right! Looking forward to see if defense has witnesses to provide the "passed out at party" alibi for NR.Interested to see how much of a.case the defense will put on, if any at all (I think they will).
I believe it's only been rumored by the defendant's family back in 2019, that NR went to a party, passed out , and the inference is then that the car was taken by someone. But I don't recall that being mentioned by the defense in opening.
For me they would need several (credible) witnesses to verify that NR was at some kind of gathering and passed out (unlikely) or other independent evidence placing him at said gathering (vid surveillance, cell phone data, drunken photos posted on social media) to make suggestion that car was.taken plausible.
Otherwise, the suggestion is that the car was stolen, murder committed and the car thief/killer respectfully returned the vehicle back to where it was stolen for NR to continue on with his day as normal, except for the horrific murder scene he left NR to clean up.
For me, with the totality of the evidence and seeing the ATM surveillance (while not confirming it was NR) where he is completely covered from head to toe, it seems reasonable that NR committed this crime and did not leave traces of himself on Samantha. It really brings to mind the terror of what happened to her.
Meeeeee!Is anyone else watching these great surveillance videos?
Yes. Sure looks like he was trolling the area.Is anyone else watching these great surveillance videos?
Predator searching for prey.Yes. Sure looks like he was trolling the area.
The last case where NR was accused of attempting to sell stolen property was a carjacking. This must have been the agenda of his crowd (terrorize victims inside a moving vehicle). MOOThe Court TV discussion speculated that robbery was the motive and when she didn’t hand over money, ATM card etc and fought back it escalated to this brutal attack. I think they are probably right.
He could have just pushed her out the car and gone to find another easier victim. He had choices, he didn’t have to kill her in such frenzied brutal way. Complete lack of human compassion.
And afterward, casually dumps her body, rides back to Columbia trying to use her ATM card., goes to his girlfriend’s with a blood soaked car, tries to get a little money selling her phone, half-#ssed cleaning the car but still drove around in it the next night because wow you don’t want to miss hanging with your friends. This guy, and I’d include his friends, care nothing about other people. These are predators in the worse sense.
The last case where NR was accused of attempting to sell stolen property was a carjacking. This must have been the agenda of his crowd (terrorize victims inside a moving vehicle). MOO