Recent content by Occam's Zebra

No one is swimming on purpose in Toronto in May. If he fell in fully clothed, hit his head, etc., it would not have mattered how strong a swimmer he was.

This part doesn't make sense to me. if they weren't aware that the kids were outside playing, how can she say that the kids were outside playing? She never saw them outside playing, right - they were in the house, then it was quiet, then they look outside and can't find the kids. Was the...

There's a lot of questions here. She was found in an area accessible only by rappelling - this says to me that she jumped/was pushed/fell from a height. How high? High enough that a fall/jump/push could be fatal? But coroner says her injuries didn't contribute to her death - just mentions...

Wow. Article says the victim and the accused conspired to hide $774K from the victim's wife while the couple was separating. Accused allegedly spent the money and then killed MA when MA tried to get the money back. Another article, published in April...

This is a ridiculous sentence. The three young people who were throwing rocks at car windshields in Colorado were each sentenced to far more time than this--and only one of the three threw the rock that killed a young woman. Their sentences were life without parole, 45 years, and 32 years.

Honestly, there are so many greater concerns than this child's diet - let's cut the judgment there. I myself was a super picky eater as a kid and I'm sure my diet was less than healthy. That improved as I aged. I also had a child who would only eat about 6 or 7 foods and they now have a varied...

He was scheduled to have the girls for 3 hours - from 5 pm to 8 pm. No overnight stay. That's dinnertime, so the assumption is that he'd take them to dinner and then return them.

As far as we know, the last time someone else saw the children was Tuesday afternoon when the bus dropped them off. They did not have school on Wednesday and they were kept home on Thursday because Lilly had a cough. It appeared they also were being kept home from school Friday. If we are...

His comments remind me of something I've heard before - that people who are lying sometimes tell bits of the truth. I have wondered from the beginning if, sadly, the kids are buried somewhere with the backpack (so it's now brown from the dirt) and if Jack will be found without his pull up. IMHO...

One of the things I think about with this case.... The older 2 kids disappear Friday morning from the house the mother shares with her partner and their baby. By Saturday night she and the baby are living somewhere else. MOO but as a parent, I would *never* move out of a house 24 hours after...

She said that in 2019 though. I have not been following this case, but a lot can change over a few years.

Why in the world would anyone offer to help contractors in a potentially dangerous way? (And why would contractors think that's okay...) I agree - GK could claim behavioral effects of a brain injury, but defense would have to show it affected more than just his attitude toward his wife. IMHO...

But they were found on/near a trail - they didn't try to hide themselves from hikers.

Very sad. RIP to this person and thoughts to their family and friends. Reminds me of the podcast Sea of Lies, which starts with a body in a fishing net in the English Channel. Definitely worth listening to.

Defense could argue that a sane person would not kill someone methodically, in full view of a video camera. But if you're "insane," you don't care. Not IMHO or MOO but just spinning what the defense could come up with to explain away the video evidence in line with the insanity defense. (That...