Agreed that there is too much click bait in general in media and social media...but I have gone from not enough (your camp) to there is enough over the course of this trial. More has come out and Wendi has continued to lie her way around the facts including the day of the shooting. Certainly from what we have seen it is not the slam dunk that Donna and Charlie's cases were, but (1) I think there is more to be revealed, (2) I think her behavior and decision making in the years since her family started getting arrested has been telling. And I don't believe that a jury will buy the line that her attorney told her not to discuss the case with her family as reason for why she has always shut out the Markels and walked a tight rope with her family that reeks IMO of consciousness of guilt. She supports the murderers as much as possible except where it crosses any line into possibly getting herself in trouble. The only boundaries she has are self preservation. She loves her mother so much but cuts her out of taped communications...still willing to help at trial as long as it does not implicate herself. None of it adds up unless she was complicit and coldly self preserving.
I try to imagine how someone actually innocent would have been acting and what they would be saying. Or in her case, not saying. To me, her police "interrogation" as she likes to put it (and no one else would who has seen it) did not ring true. I found her emotional reactions staged. She served up anyone but kept repeatedly being focused on herself as a suspect. She zoomed past denial and bargaining in grief - no questions about what could be done for her ex. Just over the top crying and covering her face. Which is it - are you that horrified and care so much? The words don't back up the show of emotion.
But also she has been so coldly and strictly strategic in how she has handled relations with her family. It is clear her mother and brother are guilty - but other than refusing to discuss the case with them or get caught on taped conversations, she still aligns with them. She does not align with her brother who found the lack of concern from the family shocking and disturbing, as anyone innocent would.
My goodness, she has only reached out to the Markels after years of coldly denying them all contact in order to help her family's defense (which would include her own, don't doubt it) - not because she feels at all badly ( as any INNOCENT person would) that it has become clear her family was behind this. I don't see that she is horrified for what has been done to them.
She erased that man from her life to the point of changing her son's middle name! Yet there is zero evidence of abuse. No real reason for the level of animosity following the murder. The hatred should have dissipated. Instead, she writes in her creative writing class about what a burden her ex's murder has been on her ability to thrive with commencement speech opportunities and such in the immediate years following, and she ends her piece noting she can't complain about it because she is the one still alive. I found the lack of empathy throughout both writings shockingly tone deaf.
It is a million little things - but they all line up with guilt and not innocence to me. Right down to overreacting for years and years to Markel's email regarding foster care. She continues to purposely misconstrue the clear and understandable true intentions behind that email to fit her desire to cut them out of her sons' lives. That alone spoke volumes to me.
It is all more complex to prove, but given Donna's trial was a slam dunk, I have faith in the prosecution that they have enough for this one. Not one jury lately has seemed to think poor Wendi was the innocent. As I said before, I think Donna and Charlie were busy playing a loud game of checkers while Wendi allowed her family to think she was helpless and hapless so they would do all the dirty work. Her game was silent and a master game of chess. But she can't nail the right emotional reactions because she lacks empathy and actual innocence - so she can lose this game just as they did.
She has other things in common with the convicted murderers in her family. She feels the need to never concede one point...right down to the name Jibbers - which clearly was neither silly nor something she needed not to feel "scared" of her ex. It was mean and she won't cop to it. She lacks credibility and is tone deaf because she can't fake it. I hope she opts to testify in her own defense. She will have the best people - so that remains to be seen.
Wendi, as Katie's attorney pointed out during one of her trials, has never cared nor wanted to help find the killer. Never felt an ounce of empathy for her ex inlaws who truly did nothing to deserve her ire. Not one week later when she refused any additional interviews with LE nor years later when it became clear her own family was involved. Rob is the only good and decent human being in the bunch. His innocence is unequivocal for a reason. And it is easy to believe.
You may claim all of this only makes Wendi out to be a selfish person but not a murderer...but I think when combined with evidence - such as driving up to the crime scene tape and later repeatedly lying about that (though that testimony likely cannot be used against her), the calls with her mother and brother the morning of, the unnerving interest in her ex boyfriend's travel plans, and on and on - it adds up to just one thing. At some point she has known and could have stopped it. At the very least, she helped cover it up. But I think she knew from the beginning and set Donna in motion purposefully. Isn't it amazing that Wendi ended up set for life with assets she didn't earn, got her parents to raise her sons while she worked and traveled until she no longer needed them, loves the family that murdered her sons' father, but yet has somehow conveniently made sure to never be recorded discussing anything with any of them? In court, we saw the pain testifying caused Rob. Notice how we don't see the pain for Wendi. Wendi just keeps head tilting and parting her lips in an O to play the role she was born to play and win.
Not even going to crack a joke about the latest theory involving two trips
