Haven't posted about this mess in years, but followed the trial via Eaton's tweets. Those poor kids, man. That part of the testimony was a gut wrench, them in the ground like that. That's sticking with those jurors forever. Kinda waited for that Holy Damn moment during the trial but it never materialized. I'm not really hand-wringing about the prosecution, tho. With what they had they did a decent enough job. There ain't no smoking gun, so they gotta put on layers of circumstance and I think the jury's gonna see that. (Sure, there's that strand of gold hair but hair's gonna hair and they got a way of gettin in the weirdest places. I mean, if they said the matching roll of duct tape was found at Alex's place and Lori was never there and Alex was never at her place, then that hair gets all weird, but the time those 2 spent together they might as well have been married and Alex probably had more of her hair on his shirt than did the living room rug.)
I think Vallow's behavior post-murders is enough to get most people.at least leaning toward conviction. Kids go missing and what? Maybe tell someone? Nah. Get the police looking? Nah. Go to Hawaii to get serenaded by a giant toddler strumming on a ukelele? Like, what's the excuse there? She's insane? Defence never went that way. Chad forced her? Defence never went that way, either. There's no doubt Alex did them all, and if it was Alex's idea alone, you'd think the defence might bring it up.
Smart jury will realize, there's gonna be an appeal no matter the what, so get your book-tossing arms ready to throw now. The bar for conviction on a child killer is a lot lower IMO than a straight up murder. One of those, Yeah-she-probably-did it-but-do-we-have enough-to-convict? cases. Like, honey murders her husband, you're thinking, 'she probably did it, but I'm not 100 percent sure she did. I gotta at least be 90 percent sure.' This case? With those kids in the ground where they were and like they were? With kids involved, it's like, I'm 60 percent sure - chain her up! So yeah, IMO the prosecution did an adequate job with the info they were given.
The defence, tho. What kind of defence was that? I think thy're taking a big gamble, here. I'll admit, I'm surprised they didn't try pin the whole sordid tale on that donkey, Chad. For sure they brought it up to her, for sure they said to her, Was him, wasn't it? He and that brother of yours, right? They did it and you're just an innocent, right Lori? Right? But, nope, they didn't go that way and that had to be all Lori. No person born with a head is gonna look at this case and say, 'You know what, maybe she's innocent. Let's plead not guilty.' Nah, the defence is just making sure the prosecution dots their i's and they - the prosecution - they've done that. Well, most of the time.
I've got this feeling that she still thinks she's on some kind of gonzo mission, and that Warrior Chad or Moroni (?) or the Great Whomever is gonna show up and break her bonds and set her up to queen a tent city in the wastes of Idaho. Tan Chad standing next to her, his grown out hair blowing in the wind, his furrowed brow, his white shirt and blue tie. True love, right? She stayed the course for her smooth ol' Chaddy. I guess riding the storm of prison is worth it when you get to ride the sto- yeah, I can't finish that sentence.
Anyway, here's hoping Vallow's role-playing the worst parts of Orange is the New Black when she comes up for breath to watch Chad on a 10 inch CRT television throwing her under the bus to save his pasty cheeks from getting Death-rowed.