Stepping back a bit, does anyone else feel like this crime was badly investigated?
I know the conditions were tough, but there just doesn’t seem to be much if any forensic evidence regarding tire tracks, where the defendant and victim might have walked prior to the crime, AW’s socks, jacket, confirmation of the other male DNA profiles found on EM, AW’s boots and or mud/debris on them, whether any substances (alcohol/drugs) were found in either of their systems, further investigation of the tires and anything that might have been used to get them unstuck, I’m assuming there was nothing in the phone records of interest but still, etc.
The reason I bring that up is because the state theory that she lured AW out to kill him and premeditated it days before is somewhat ludicrous. Even those of us who think she’s guilty don’t think that theory works. If I had to guess I would imagine most of us believe she snapped because of something that happened before or during a sexual encounter with AW.
But the state backed themselves into a corner with their theory. I know they are not required to show motive, but a more likely theory would have been helpful. And I feel like a lack of additional evidence caused them to go that route.
Say she DID plan on killing him out in the wilderness then her car got stuck.
Either way, having more evidence would have been very helpful.
Notice in her testimony EM stated that when the car got stuck only SHE git out and looked for things to stick under the tires or otherwise get it unstuck.
Does that sound right to ANYONE?
Why would the 5’2” 130lb chick get out and try to get her car unstuck, while the much bigger man that was IN LOVE WITH HER just sit in the car saying and doing nothing.
Remember, that was her testimony. He said and did nothing.
I think she knew there would be no boot prints or other evidence that he had been walking around the car trying to help get it unstuck, because he was already dead!
But with no further evidence collected that’s impossible to say, now.
Or what if she originally stabbed him away from the car somewhere? Maybe that’s why there wasn’t much blood except for outside next to the car? Maybe after stabbing him he was in shock, and she told him she’d help him (knowing she wouldn’t), and they walked back to the car. Where he sat in the back, and she waited until he was unconscious.
I can’t put my finger on it, but his positioning was just...odd.
I think she got stuck after killing him. The evidence needed to determine that would’ve been elsewhere, and on his boots, and on his jacket, etc.