Recent content by wendy44

I was at the Kennedy Center tonight and they also had a moment of silence. I'm so sad for those children, they're so young. JMO

Howard Blum, for example, appears to have been wrong about the amount of DNA found. He wrote articles for Air Mail early on and then wrote his book. In it he says: "The Idaho lab's challenge, however, was that the DNA on the knife sheath was "touch" male DNA left by a finger that had brushed...

In the Patterson book Stacy Chapin said she went by the house the next morning and thought Ethan was still there. She found out later that he'd already been moved.

One interesting tidbit in the BF interview posted in the previous thread--BF says that KG had decided she wasn't going to Texas. With Murphy missing, was that why she was calling JD over and over, at one point telling him that they had a dog together? It was because she couldn't find Murphy...

This is what I lean toward. Xana picked up her food at the front door, went to her room to eat and watch TikTok and then BK entered the house. She went to the kitchen when he was upstairs to warm up her food (found on top of the microwave) because it was cold after taking so long to be...

I'm finally caught up with the threads after sentencing--ironically I was happy a few months ago that work travel would be done before the trail began, but I ended up missing sentencing and appreciate all the live updates and the snippets from the documents and youtube, etc. I haven't yet...

I haven't watched the episode yet, just a preview, but this portion cleared up something that has been confusing since the Order on the State's MIL RE: Text Messages and 911 Calls referred to DM's grand jury testimony. In her testimony DM said: At approximately 11:50 a.m., D.M. called her...

I think changing laws and due process violations are two different animals. One is much more likely than the other to be retroactive and for good reason. JMO

I believe all the parents have made their opinions known. Xana's mom has been against the death penalty from the start so she would obviously support the deal. Maddie's parents both support the deal (as does her stepfather). Ethan's parents both support the deal. Kaylee's parents don't...

I think it's totally fine to support that and agree with the families that have expressed that. But how the families were treated and the input and consideration they were given is something we actually don't know. We've only heard from one family on that. So it's really just opinion and not...

The Supreme Court has consistently upheld LWOP for adults so the lower courts have to follow. But, for the sake of argument, you're justifying putting someone to death just in case a future court finds his rights have been violated and he didn't receive due process under the constitution. This...

Beautiful! We always go over to Mount Vernon and watch the new citizens get sworn in at the naturalization ceremony. Today the keynote speaker was Arnold Schwarzenegger and his speech was so moving.

Even for the families. We can't have a justice system where one of the benefits of the death penalty is preventing a future Supreme Court from ruling that their constitutional rights were violated. You posed it as a hypothetical, but as a hypothetical it's just wrong. Regardless of anyone's...

It appears that the majority of parents wanted the deal--Ethan's, Maddie's and Xana's mom. Kaylee's parents and Xana's dad were against. So 5-3. The surviving roommates are also victims of the burglary and should have been consulted so we don't know where they fell. Regardless, there were...

If a future Supreme Court ruled anything about this case was unconstitutional it would be a good thing they hadn't put him to death already. JMO