Or maybe he's the abuser and this interaction emboldened him to smack her good one and he killed her. Or maybe the fight had nothing to with anything and aliens came down and abducted her. Hard to say, but she is missing and he won't say where he even saw her last.
I like the aliens theory (always the best answer)…so yeah he appears to be at fault for something or at least he thinks he is at fault for something. The bodycam footage answers some questions but raises many others.
And did anyone else have an issue with the immediate assumption by the cops that he was the abuser? My wife noticed this before I did….They sat him in the direct sun while interrogating him and put her in the safe, shaded squad car…until they saw that he had visible injuries (and she didn’t) and especially after their stories matched (about who hit who and who was the aggressor). The officer admitted on camera that technically he should have charged her with DV.
Eyewitnesses at the previous location (that called in about their public disturbance) reported his actions as more ‘defensive’ than ‘offensive’. That’s important.
She was only let off because the supervisor didn’t understand why HE was the victim even though he just arrived on scene with little info.
And then this supervisor asks the officer to do something I’ve never heard of to the ‘now suspected aggressor’ (and I listen to legal cases for a living): to ask what her INTENT was in hitting him? Hitting him because he wouldn’t stop telling her to call down…WTF?
And not only that, he asked her this in the most blatantly ‘leading’ manner (basically warns/tells her how to answer so she doesn’t get in trouble).
My first impressions is that she is mentally troubled (aggressive, admits to being on medication, describes herself as OCD and thinks herself as mean). He seems embarrassed and overwhelmed/confused by all of it. He’s got all the physical injuries/scratches etc, reported witnesses to his defensive position in the fight and yet still says he’s fine, he loves her, doesn’t want her to get in trouble. Men don’t want to admit when a woman is aggressive to them.
But there’s definitely the possibility he cracked and this wasn’t typical behavior (relatives reported no red flags with him after years in the relationship) and maybe he did something unforgivable.
Whether that was physical violence (accidental or not) or abandonment, his lawyer obviously feels that he needs to clam up for now.
And yes, I want to know where she is and if she is ok, especially after the double murders two days later in the same area.
