I never felt the Judge would recuse himself and that he was only giving good advice since he has seen and heard all that has been presented. I had to chuckle when I read where someone said just because the Judge said this case is top priority it will be an appellate issue. LOL! Nope, the Judge was right, and death penalty cases that are coming to trial soon are always placed as top priority as they should be.
I am sure JA was asked to take a polygraph to make sure his statements were credible this time. Its humorous in a way since he liked to talk like he was so big and bad. The thoughts of the death penalty and strapped to a gurney one day has a way of changing how tough some really are.
From the way the Judge talked why ZAs kidnapped Holly is even more heinous than we thought. Imo, he didn't kidnap her to steal money from a young college woman who had no job. I have said all along the main motive for kidnapping her was to brutally rape her repeatedly and let anyone else rape her who wanted to come over and do so. It takes my breath away to even begin to imagine all of the pain and suffering Holly went through before she was murdered. Real life and death can be so much worse than the worst horror movie.
As far as Holly's body being dumped in the river that part could be true and he discarded her head/skull at the sight it was found. I dont put anything past ZAs and I feel he easily could have decapitated her before throwing her body in the river.
It will be brutal for Holly's family to finally to hear the actual truth as to why Holly was kidnapped, raped, beaten, and murdered but at least they will know what happened and why.
Now what will be interesting is to see if the ADA will plea the other two cases and if will be LWOP or nothing. Perhaps she will so the family wont have to endure two trials while having to look at the sub-humans who tortured and murdered Holly.
It will also be interesting if JA confirms a video was taken during the time Holly was chained, tortured, and raped repeatedly before she was killed. Perhaps he knows who still has a copy of such video. If so, that certainly would make the Judge give the sound advice that ZAs needs to do a plea deal and not go to trial.
Kristin Leigh 
