JMO it seems to me he doesn't believe any of the people who testified said the whole truth and nothing but the truth. JMO ONLY
I totally agree with you and having lost a family member to a violent homicide I think it is very pragmatic on his part to advise his loved ones to not take
anyone in this scenario at their word.
Everyone has an agenda. TLM, MR, prosecution and defense. They all have a motivation to present the data in a way that best fits their goal. I am not criticizing prosecution or even defense, that is their job, and as long as they stay within their ethical/professional standards I think it is a given that they are both avoiding points that don't play well to the story they are telling.
TLM is telling the story in a way that benefits her and MR is trying to present a story that benefits him.
Now they are both likely to be in jail for the rest of their lives, I think that is a given, but they are BOTH trying desperately to distance themselves from rape of this child. TLM is not stupid, she told her story and put her spin on it and tried (successfully) to make herself a star witness who is "helping" with prosecution of MR.
To me it is not a coincidence that TLM walked away from that school with a child whose family she had multiple contacts points with. I think she targeted VS. She knew VS had a dog at home from the breeding discussion.
In her handwritten notes she says that she encountered VS at one point in the neighborhood and VS pet TLMs dog. The same dog she used as bait and a point of reference to lure VS out to the car without setting off ANYONEs alarms. I think that was less to make VS comfortable and more to make TLM comfortable. She was out there on her own. If she had ended up with a screaming child and a MR driving away from his convenient vantage point?
I know that TLM denies having earlier contact with VS and I *believe* that mom and dad were unaware of the previous dog petting encounter. TLM has no motivation to say she planned this out, stalked/groomed/targeted/exploited an opportunity to take VS.
TLM willingly admits and takes sole responsibility for beating this child to death with a hammer. But she completely distances herself from the sexual assault and rape? MR told her "you know I am going to....., right?". This was news to her. She walked away during that time, immersed herself in her own childhood victimization (points for getting that out in the public record and in front of the jury victim turned criminal turned remorseful star witness taking responsibility for her own sins... gag me).
TLM tees it up that she kidnapped VS and she killed VS and the ONE thing she couldn't bare and couldn't witness just happens to be the one that MR can't explain away because his sperm is at the crime scene. Another big coincidence in the story TLM put together and told first.
I think TLM was very much aware of the sexual assault, catered to his sick pedophile fantasies and facilitated its delivery much like Karla H did for Paul B. I think she was much more aware if it not involved directly with the sexual assualt. The bloody pee break, the request to hold her hand for comfort thru round two. That is not something you pop in from your own childhood flashback to be intimately involved in, hand her over for round two while seeking personal refuge from the horror you can't bare. That is the part that is ridiculous to me. Not whether she stopped at the front door or dared to step into the school.
But from that point after he is done, krazy/angry/victim herself/rap influenced TLM turns all of that rage and violence on to the child she has supposedly been identifying with thru their mutual victimizations? Not on the child rapist that is in front of her. She isn't shocked into attacking him with the weapon she HANDPICKED. No she turns her jealous rage against the competition, against the object of MRs desire. But that isn't a very flattering image for the witness.
Where are the bloody clothes TLM would have been wearing? She was out in the field standing in the cold all by herself while MR was raping a VS right? The violence she describes and the forensics support show a really bloody and very up close and personal killing. TLM says she delivered the blows. MR "admits" to helping clean up the scene after he returns from his own walk in the country and his shocking return to what TLM had done totally unbeknowst to him (with a weapon he pulled the money out for and sat in the parking lot while she purchased). But neither one of them have particularly bloody clothes after this clean up? If I tried to run errands wearing a white coat it would probably have pepsi spilled on the front, dog fur and/or dog spit from one or both of my dogs on the back. Just saying....
But to the original point, VS is the only that knows what happened and dad is very wise to consider all the info being presented to be packaged to some degree. TLM boxes MR in with the witness statement to the rape, MR can't shine a light on what TLM was really involved in without acknowledging mutual involvement in raping VS, I am sure we all agree the defense is not presenting data harmful to MR, and the state surely knows the data that is missing in TLMs story but bringing those lies to the forefront is not beneficial to the goal of convicting MR.
