Recent content by helpfulcharlie

OMG. I'm astounded that they would make the graphic images public.

So I think I understand the confusing language about the gun, from listening to her testimony and kind of reading between the lines of what she said, as well as what the crappy lawyer didn't ask. I think Brendan told her to get the gun from the safe, but, saucy little drama-queen minx that she...

To me it feels like he was on the fence as to her involvement, and adjusted her involvement by the seat of his pants at various decision points, and didn't adequately prepare her to be a full partner OR shield her to innocently back up his claims. Poor communication, which, ironically, is...

I don't find Juliana very bright, but I do find her somewhat believable. This is one of the most bungled "perfect crime" attempts I've ever seen.

WTF. I'm going to need to see the court documents on this one. This person is apparently a menace.

Right. If it wasn't there, then he was deceptive when he provided it at the interview. And that's evidence. And a rabbit hole. If he provided a phone that wasn't there to the interviewer, did he have another at the time? And what evidence would that provide? I really hope they were thorough...

The phone is still bugging me. If they had his MEID from the first interview and they had a tower dump, was it listed in that dump? Followup: Aside from the tower dump, can they determine when it was last used? I feel like those two pieces of information might still explain a lot, and I'm a...

Can you imagine, as a juror, having to live with failing to convict a person of such an awful, heinous, senseless crime after hearing him confess it so many times, in so many ways, to so many people?

I'm with you on this. Conscience is not the same as worrying about your perception in the eyes of others. A lot of monsters are scared to death of the thought of being seen as monsters by others. Doesn't make them any less monstrous. Hiding vs self-reflection.

I'm grateful for the details that are coming out -- the confessions, the van interruption, the plan gone awry. There's one missing piece of the puzzle for me. And I don't see that missing piece swaying my opinion that they 100% have the right guy for this. But I guess for my own peace of mind...

This case has me more baffled than most. It's hard to reconcile that this sad-sack, self-reporting, possible bullet-dropping, bad-planning, confessing individual was somehow able to get away with this extraordinary violent, bloody crime with no DNA tying him to it. It boggles the mind. They've...

I will never understand why uninvolved people feel the need to inject themselves and falsify involvement in heinous crimes. Never.

This entire presser is nothing more than cringeworthy, alarmist character assassination. This man should be laughed/shamed out of a job for this. Artistic tastes and "furries" interests are not evidence of crimes. If they were, the jails would be overflowing. I feel twenty IQ points lower for...

This case still haunts me. It's difficult to imagine someone making such a split-second opportunistic decision with so many life-altering consequences. Either he had committed similar acts before or maybe had snuck away for a substance-abuse break and temporarily lost all capacity for reason and...

I would guess because as a parent, the legal bar is higher. As in, a parent may assert some right to medicate their child, creating a higher bar for prosecution on that point than drugging non-family, which obviously nobody has any business doing.