Ain't a person on planet earth that'll convince me this guy made confessions because he was crazy....no way, no how. This guy made confessions, and was crazy, because he killed two young ladies in a brutal, violent, up close and personal, slashing of their throats. The demons inside him ate away at his conscience to the point it near drove him mad.
I think the Prosecution did get a three run Homerun though, with the audio tapes of his confessions to his mother and his wife.
I believe the jurors heard him in his own words, in his own voice, under no duress, speaking to the 2 people he loves the most, and sincerely confessing his worst sins. He bared his soul to them.
I absolutely believe RA’s confessions are real.
I think the context is extremely important.
For one thing, if after reading the Bible and coming to believe in Jesus, he may have felt that while he thought he’d gotten away with it for those five years, he suddenly believed that of course God knew what he’d done.
So now he needed to cleanse his conscience in some way. God knew what he’d done, the Bible says to confess your sins, and he HAD to find out if KA and his mother would forgive him and love him if they knew who he really was.
He clearly loves his wife and mother and it’s urgent to him that he was granted absolution by them. He appeared very lucid in these conversations. He was as clear as could be and was trying to let them know the truth.
KA and his mother said they loved him but absolutely refused to hear that he was in fact guilty.
IMO, their resistance to letting him detail his confession caused him to shut that down, give up convincing them, and take the road they offered….stop confessing, don’t take a plea, and go to trial.
I’m sure he also loves his daughter but we’ve not heard from her at all. IMO that suggests she’d made up her mind about his guilt and therefore has not come to trial nor publicly defended him.
All JMO and speculation
