Cannot disagree with you at all. But why did she lie? All lies have some reason behind them. Did she do it for herself or did she do it for FO or for some reason we don't yet understand?
I've just been fixated on the idea of trying to understand why MT has been behaving as she has!
We know she is a well established and practiced liar. I'm just trying to figure out why?
Most people don't lie to lie (some do but the research says not so many pathological liars out there).
I've come full circle on the MT issue as I can only conclude that she was an integral member of the FO + HO team and the reason she most likely lied to Atty Bowman and LE was because she couldn't figure out a way to 'come clean' without admitting to murder. I think its the premeditated aspect of the murder that now seems to be clearer and MT role in the overall murder that was simply overwhelming for MT to deal with. Don't get me wrong. I don't think she feels remorse and I don't think she feels anything at all. I think she is emotionally wired just like FD and they were two peas in a pod that planned and executed a murder plot plain and simple.
The 2+ month lying period was just MT getting to the point where she might just possibly admit her role and was working to get the best deal possible from the State IMO. Its quite stunning to be an outsider in all this because what it looks like is that MT at the core is a coward that not only couldn't fess up publicly but couldn't fess up internally to herself as to being a murderer. I wonder if MT has taken responsibility for much in her life ever and does she care about anyone other than herself? I seriously doubt it and I hope that she is punished severely!
If she just started talking on 8/13 then this process is ongoing and new and most likely no deal exists. IMO MT is going to prison, the issue is just for how long and for which charges.
MOO MOO
Here is what I think IMO is going on with MT and her lies. Basically I agree with
@afitzy that the reason for the lies is that she’s trying to avoid incriminating herself for murder, and she’s playing cat and mouse here as LE pulls out more evidence on her, she’s giving just the minimum she has to.
MT first interview was on 6/2 in NC jail the day after she and FD were arrested. MT was no doubt in terrible shape since LE arrived at Residence Inn around 11:30pm on the 1st and then MT was driven down to NC and booked in, and then I’m sure nice and comfy in her bed in the jail. I’m sure she was in great form the next day.
Nonetheless it appears that in the interview with Bowman present on 6/2 she just repeated the alibi script. LE didn’t have the alibi script yet (according to AW they picked that up on 6/3) but they had enough evidence to see through her alibis and story that it was inconsistent. (I guess MT should have kept the script in her pocket at all times to refer to, in her state that day she probably flubbed some of the details. Even if she got it spot on it was obviously a crappy alibi plan anyway).
I’m sure Bowman had been privy to some of the alibi details based on her meeting with him earlier in the week, but I imagine he was not impressed by the terrible performance with LE poking holes in her story that day at the jail.
On 6/3 according to the AW, LE finds the alibi script at 4JC. This triggers them to get MT back in for more questioning. In the meantime MT has bailed out and no doubt Bowman is trying to get MT to clean up her act, and to tell the truth to LE, or at least to him! Bowman is also likely educating MT on the severity of the consequences she’s facing.
So MT and Bowman do the 2nd interview with LE on 6/6, this is the one that was highly publicized in MSM. According to AW, at this second interview MT comes clean that she can’t alibi FD between 8am and 1pm. Apparently though (Deducing from times in AW) she still sticks to the shower scene in this interview, happening between 6:40am and 8am (presumably when she left to take her daughter to school. School starts at 8:15 and it’s 20 minute drive.) she’s also shown the alibi notes in this interview and admits to writing them out.
Does Bowman believe at this time that MT is lying? Clearly MT has ponied up a lot more at this point, and Bowman had likely made the stakes clear to her. But her performance in this interview also sounds quite miserable from the AW, given that she tells LE the alibi script was just to help them “remember” what they had done. Later LE can poke holes in the alibi script.
In the meantime, Bowman advises MT to stay away from FD (possible that family members of FD and MT were ferrying info and plans to patch up the alibi and stay consistent) and petitions to send her out of state to NY. As we saw this didn’t work out and she was back in CT out and about socializing.
By the 3rd interview on 8/13, LE has figured out the red truck involvement and also likely has the whole afternoon timeline based on MT phone records, AW states that FD called MT to bring the red truck keys back to EE that afternoon, etc. And LE have her movements on video and phone records of the car wash and bank withdrawal.
At this point, Bowman likely instructs MT it’s her last chance and she has to admit she was lying before. She does that and comes clean (sorry for the terrible irresistible pun) about not actually lathering up with FD that morning (I know, ew!!) and about the urgent need to haul out garbage bags and rags to clean a coffee spill off EEs filthy beater truck seat before anyone can get the holiday weekend started (sorry EE, but you yourself said you rarely clean your 18 year old truck).
But MTs still hedging around in this 3rd interview and being “coy” as someone generously put it previously, about why they went to clean the truck and whether she followed FD there or he just phoned her up out of the blue to come get him- this is where she’s still lying to cover up her own role in it. She knew full well why the truck was being cleaned and was full well involved in taking it to the car wash and paying for it, and it wasn’t to get that coffee spill out. (A $250 coffee spill, huh?).
Given this consistent lying through all these interviews, to LE and almost certainly to Bowman as well, IMO MT knew about the plan to get rid of JD and knew what had happened that day. Her continued reticence to be truthful and up front regarding the evidence LE does have and show her indicates she still has something to hide. IMO Bowman has a tough job and MT is making it even tougher. MOO.
MOO on everything here.