But Ross was already having his cake and eating it too. He had no woman on the side asking him to leave his wife. I dont think he even had a perspective relationship in the works. He was paying for it. I think RH has some struggles. Had RH had something stable on the side, maybe he would have considered divorce, but testimony doesn't speak to that.
Ross was planning a 2 family cruise with his brother, had been checking out family houses to buy and thinking ahead about schools for Cooper, etc. etc. for the future.
He had not expressed any negative thoughts or emotions about Cooper, had not exhibited any anger or resentment towards him, had not withdrawn from him, had not neglected him or abused him, and still raved about him to everyone.
It would seem that no one, including LE, can point to any precipitating event or series of events that would cause RH to decide to kill Cooper, and there is zero evidence that Ross the researcher looked up anything remotely related to doing so.
He'd apparently been unfaithful to Leanna for years. Nothing new there. And he'd crossed the line and began sexting with a minor for over a year, nothing new there. The only external variable that seems to have changed is his being passed over for a promotion and turned down for a job.
And yet, on June 18, 2014 he is supposed to have killed Cooper, in a manner he knew would be excruciatingly painful and awful, and then carried on his day quite unaffected.
Taking a step back from today's testimony, Imo the State did a good job of connecting the dots of RH's "bad character" to suggest a possible motive of "remove Cooper to make his marriage end, " and in driving home the point that even his friends didn't really know RH.
But... there's a big 'ole chasm between feeling trapped in an unhappy marriage and having a covert, not very discriminating, in some portions illegal extramarital sex life, and deciding one day to kill one's son to make one's marriage end.
Too large a chasm, imo, without some kind of evidence of premeditation, something that suggests when and why RH began thinking such a thing.