I only want to say that I hope that my e-mails to my sisters and my friends are never made public before a trial or charges are filed, if I get in some kind of trouble. There is probably at least one e-mail a month sent to me, or by me, to a sister or friend, referencing a spouse and asking the recipient to please delete after reading. We all gripe about our spouses and nowadays, via e-mail, and don't expect those messages to end up in the newspaper.
I am a little surprised that so much is ending up in the news before any charges have been filed. Granted, the parents both think Terri is a monster and that may well turn out to be the case, but LE seems (and I am no expert) to be taking advantage of the situation in not needing to file charges but keeping their prime suspect in front of the public via leaks to the parents.
Desquire, do you know of other such cases where so much "dirt" about the suspect was made public before LE has said anything about the person being a POI or a suspect?
I am pretty much "off the fence" now, so that is not my issue, I am just wondering if any of this has a precedent. And hoping none of it comes back on LE when they are ready to go to trial.
I was thinking the same thing.
I needed to hit "send" quickly with a little tugging at me & the dinner bell ringing so didn't get to reread or complete my thoughts...
As I was eating I was hoping that my thoughts came across ok, and didnt' appear as Terri's...but then I had the very same thoughts about e-mails to friends & family. Not bashing, just venting frustrations...you think you can do that freely with friends & family and not have to defend it. PLUS, there is history, and on one day you could be talkign about how hard it is to get through homework with your 2nd grader, and then the next how you wanted to kill him because he was acting up PLUS not getting his homework done, because DH was not home. You kinda have the notion that you are allowed to vent without it coming back to bite you. No one really means that they really wanted to kill the little pustule that brought you to the brink while Daddy was out of town, but certainly it helps to vent...
I dunno...
And one thought I also had that I didn't get in, just to kinda expand on my previous post...about the financials.
I do the bills in my house, even though my savings (and therefore any need for a seperate account) exhausted long ago. It's just one of my chores. Mainly because I am the analyst in my house, not my husband. ANyhoo, when he needs or wants something, he checks with me. We have large bills that need to be paid only 1 or twice a year (like most people) and he only gets paid 1x/mo. So some months the till is pretty dry. He knows he has to check before buying lots of stuff or we could end up bouncing a mortgage check or something. Anyhoo...I was thinking in my current financial situation...how I would feel if DH did the bills and I had to do the asking everytime I wanted to buy something...I think most moms put thmeselves last anyway, when it comes to stuff....the kids get new shoes WAY more often than me, like that. So if I got to the point that I HAD to have shoes & needed to first check with DH....I tellya that would do a number on my already pretty deflated ego... I tjink too, that I might just start to resent having to do that too.
No excuses, I'm not at all trying to defend her...just wondering if that e-mail is really painting the picture that we are being led to believe.
I too wonder about this "dirt"...it doesn't make sense to me, as far as a strategy from LE. But I may not be the best to judge as a relative newbie to these types of cases.
It just seems strange to me that "they" (assuming LE) keeps releasing more & more to the parents. It just doesn't seem necessary to add anymore feul to the fire...I don't get it. And where is any hope of getting a fair trial for her...shouldn't that be a consideration for them? This case is now being followed internationally...where in the world could they move the trial? What happens if it is determined that she couldn't recieve a fair trial, what then?
And what's with information being filtered THROUGH Des & Kaine? Why aren't they releasing this information themselves? Maybe their intention is really not to release it to the public, but that it just happens...wouldn't that be a consideration for them moving forward?
I dunno...this doesn't make sense to me...it actually makes me question whether they are really targeting Terri or just making ot appear as though they are. I may be wrong, but it just seems like they'd be more protective about 'evidence.'
But this whole case has me questioning SO much - it defies logic so often!
