I've been following along on the OP threads the last few days without posting. Thanks to the many great posters on here for your thoughtful posts and detailed information.
I don't usually pay much attention to summer Olympics, but watched OP a bit in 2012 and had really admired him. Fast forward to February 2013 and when I saw the headlines about him shooting Reeva I felt great sympathy for Reeva and her family and also for OP, who I assumed had made a terrible mistake he would have to live with. Again, fast forward to just recently when I saw a headline about OP vomiting in court. Once again I felt sympathy for him. Sometime after that I started following this story a little more closely. Needless to say I now do not waste any sympathy on OP since I have learned what was in his affidavits and what witnesses have stated; I save my sympathy for the true victims in this case - Reeva and her family/friends.
I want to add in my own little anecdote about intruder fear. We live in a split level home. The sleeping area is on the highest level of our home, while the main floor has entrances/exits, kitchen, living room, etc. In the mornings I exercise in the sub-basement (a level below the main basement) while our son sleeps upstairs. My spouse leaves for work right around the time I begin my workout. We are pretty security conscious and keep main floor windows locked through the night and all doors, of course. My DH is careful to lock the door behind him when he leaves for work. One morning about a year ago my DH had been gone at least half an hour when I heard a heavy footfall upstairs on the main floor. I felt very vulnerable - an unarmed woman, working out in the lowest part of the home with 10lb weights strapped to my ankles. I knew it could not possibly be my son, nor my DH and was I was terrified. I heard more heavy footfalls as I unstrapped my ankle weights (20-30 seconds, allowing for shaking hands), grabbed a 15lb dumbbell to use as a weapon (5 seconds), ran to the first flight of stairs (3 seconds) and ran up 5 steps (3 seconds). My intention was to reach the cordless telephone at the top of those stairs and call 911 as I continued upstairs, and then to confront and attack the intruder. In the space of that time from when I first registered the heavy footfalls to when I reached the cordless phone (no more than 45 seconds at my best estimation) I came to the conclusion that it was more likely that it was DH returning, even though he had never done that (and never has since). I called out "WHO IS THERE?" and he of course immediately answered. (Since that day he has promised to call first if he has to return home, but it's never happened again.) What really strikes me in hindsight is how quickly our minds can work. You know the saying "My mind was racing"? It's true. In the space of 45 seconds I was able to discard the theory that it must be an intruder and go with the theory that it must be my DH, despite no evidence either way - just basic rationalizing (which is more likely - that it's an intruder or DH?), which I then confirmed by calling out.
OP's statements are simply nonsensical. Taken one at a time, the pieces of his statements that don't add up can possibly be explained away, if your stretch your imagination. Put together as a whole, I do not believe the events of that night could have possibly occurred the way he says it does. I have tried and tried to imagine this through OP's eyes, and to imagine it occurring the way he states. I can't. It's not even close to believable.
The killer wasted his money though, like OP seems to be doing, and he was convicted of murder.