I tried explaining this case and my investment to an outsider the other day.
They found it macabre, on both counts.
Why, she asked, am I interested, involved, married to this case?
I've been thinking about that.
Could've heard about it in 2019 and read about a trial outcome in 2024... and skipped the middle five years.
But I didn't. Like many here, I've followed it from the beginning, feel a duty to see it through trial.
That's when it hit me. I do it for justice. I do it because the scales get tipped toward unsavory perpetrators, and I need to see the scale righted.
These threads are a kind of testimony. Maybe just an outcry to the universe. But I feel like we have stood vigil, alongside JFd, and all women who have faced off against homicidal domestic violence. Jennifer is, in a way, every woman, but also fully one woman, a mother who adored motherhood, felt called to know each of her children as the distinct, unrepeatable souls she was eager to recognize, nurture and one day would have launched, thrilled and fulfilled for the encounter and the honor both. Both ethereal and grounded, profound and devout. Exuding both simple and complex joy...
What a contrast to the world of FD and MT. Posers, users. JFd walked on air. The other two swim in the sewer. And the sewer is left smellier because of it.
Whatever verdict the jury returns, whatever sentence received, it won't restore justice. That would require resurrection, Jennifer pulled back into this world where she'd resume mothering and blogging and just general raising the bar. Jennifer -- je ne sais quoi. Quiet class. Content and fed driving her children to school.
MT won't get what's coming to her, at least on this side of (all too fitting) fire and brimstone. She has, however, been exposed. Buyer beware. Anyone who encounters her needs to ask, "is she using me?" And the answer IMO will always be in the affirmative. She knows no other way.
Greek tragedy on so many counts.
JFd is dead because MT was born.
MT could have made something of her own self. Her brain, her build, her prowess. If she had only dedicated her time toward developing her own self, instead of usurping another's. Grifter gonna grift. She grifted JFd. She tried to steal JFd's husband, home, family, standing. She wasn't done until she stole JFd's very life.
Among her charges, she should have been charged with theft. Of the highest order.
Please let the jury get it right. Justice will be kissed if MT loses her freedoms.
JMO