Let's not forget Norm Pattis saying (I'm paraphrasing) that there is an explanation for the trash bags, but he's not going to tell it. Why not? If it supports someone's innocence, why wouldn't you, as an officer of the law, provide an explanation? Why hasn't MT's trial attorneys investigated that comment and place NP on record if it exonerates his client? If you knew something critical in nature that would clear someone's name and keep them from a 14.5 year prison sentence, wouldn't you "tell it"?
Oh, come on. The explanation is obvious. The trash bags came from 4JC, and MT was a domestic giant, pulling her weight with the heavy trash detail. You know, daily. Hard worker we know her to be. And each time she got a trash bag on the course of her regular donestic drudgery, she took great care always to gum up the trailing trash bag with her fingerprintery fingerprints, as one does.
Of course, that's assuming perforated trash bags that require some manhandling to separate -- which these weren't. (Iirc I recall seeing drawstrings in the photographs.)
Oh, and never mind that her gummy fingerprints were found exactly where one would expect them to be, if someone were holding a trash bag open.
MT's biggest tell IMO is that her story didn't shift an inch when presented with photographs of JFd's blood-soaked shirt and bra, cut down the middle, in a trash bag containing zipties, also cut. Whatever one may have thought happened to JFd -- gone girl, self-harm -- evaporates with that information. 100% JFd was a victim of a violent crime. Why is there
no reaction from MT? Forget blame for a second, but no visceral response to visible proof that a woman endured devastating violence?
And yes, she loves to say there's no motive -- the irony here is something else -- she's glued to FD; if FD had no motive, then she also had no motive (according to her flawed logic), yet her own family says her mistake was in loving the wrong man at the wrong time. So which is it? No motive, he didn't do it? Or.... he did do it and therefore must have had a motive?
And if he did in fact have a motive, then so did MT.
(The motive is also obvious. Divorce was slow, divorce involved financials, delays meant more weekends where MT had to vacate
the children's home. MT found that all torturous. They weren't looking for divorce, they wanted immediate and permanent resolution -- which eliminating JFd would accomplish, especially since they planned to set it up to look like JFd herself was responsible for JFd's disappearance. No more visitation, no more financial scrutiny, no more shared parenting, no more debt, flush with many, instant life$tyle boo$t.)
She's
still not committing to
FD, being the murderer. (Her family did IMO, when they said her only mistake was loving the wrong man.) You'd
think she'd want to distance herself
from what he did, but instead she is clinging to him. Last chair on the Titancic. Why???????? He's not here, no point in remaining loyal to him.
There can only be one reason she wouldn't sell FD out. She can't. And maybe that's because KM is still alive. I bet HE knows why she continues to hold out. Can three people keep a secret if one is dead?
JMO