Recent content by helpfulcharlie

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...

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...