Recent content by helpfulcharlie

Yes. Planned, maybe, but only minutes into the future, without regard to obvious consequence. It seems extraordinarily impulsive. How do you "plan" something like this in such a way that you're so obviously going to be the prime suspect and so obviously going to be captured? Maybe he just has...

Good point. I wonder how many other times his schedule was changed. I hope someone is cross-checking his entire work history. Despite how haphazard and unplanned this seems, it's possible he's done something similar in the past.

Since I didn't see any recent updates I thought I'd do a search. Looks like the last status hearing was in February, the next is in August, with a trial on the schedule for the end of the year. Last I heard she was ruled competent, but nothing but clickbait when I try to find info about the...

Right. At this point it doesn't matter why he did it on a personal level. What matters is that he was and is capable of doing it, and that is 100% incompatible with society.

I was kind of wondering if perhaps the reason he pled guilty in the first place was to extract a promise from them not to charge him with sex crimes, maybe to save him from being killed in prison.

That's the beginning of the weirdness. Implies some sort of knowing acceptance or resignation to his deviant proclivities. Makes me wonder how much of his prior behavior never made it to the reporting stage, and was covered up/enabled by family. What really gets me is him responding about his...

Well that's interesting. Do you think there's a connection between Branton and the RV explosion? Or just some weird coincidence? Was the RV explosion at the drug-connected house?

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Was *he* getting paid, or was it being direct-deposited into a joint account and being used by his family? Despite the inflammatory wording, I'm sure the authorities know whether that money is being accessed by anyone externally.

This is the relief I needed today. At least one small piece of the universe is aligned correctly. Love and justice for the victims' families.

This 100%. People don't always act in their long-term self-interest, especially when they're chasing something internally. "It's worth it," they tell themselves, while burning their relationships to the ground.

Logically I have trouble understanding what BB is going to testify to. Even if JM isn't the most reliable witness on the planet, if BB's story were true she would have no reason whatsoever to come up with the story she told, because it's worse than the original story, for both of them. This is...

What gets me so far is how any adult -- JM, his mom, anyone -- can sleep in the same house as him after knowing what he's capable of. As if he couldn't snap again and kill everyone in the house. How do you suspend those thoughts and eat, sleep and relax in the same house? Which to me paints JM...

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...