LeAnna (Mom) #1

[gitana1]

AS far as I can see no one is clamming up here. It looks to me that she has been interviewed by police.

I don't think it has anything to do with the other. I think all people who are being looked at by police and we know that parents are always looked at first, should have an atty. And I am surprised and atty is not saying that also..

Holy Toledo. Am I not making myself clear? I agree with you that POI's or suspects should hire an attorney.

But experience shows us that it is mostly only guilty parents who do so within a month of tragedy. I'm sorry if that's not clear enough. I don't know how else to say it and I'm starting to feel frustrated. If I am not being clear enough, my apologies. Perhaps I'm over tired.

And yes, LH has totally clammed up. She hired an attorney. That's the effect of hiring an attorney. She will not be speaking with LE again.

 

[Lovejac]

I sorta gotta admit that if I were innocent and listened to what the cops were throwing out there in court the way they were, I know I'd be crapping my pants.

Especially hearing how they viewed the taped phone call with the mother. That part of the conversation
(IMO) had *nothing* to do with RH, so for them to use it the way they did surely seemed like a tactical move to me - like,
let's see which way she zags if we zig this way...

She zagged all the way to Alabama!

 

[CHERIE.T]

Holy Toledo. Am I not making myself clear? I agree with you that POI's or suspects should hire an attorney.

But experience shows us that it is mostly only guilty parents who do so within a month of tragedy. I'm sorry if that's not clear enough. I don't know how else to say it and I'm starting to feel frustrated. If I am not being clear enough, my apologies. Perhaps I'm over tired.

And yes, LH has totally clammed up. She hired an attorney. That's the effect of hiring an attorney. She will not be speaking with LE again.

YOU are making it very clear.

 

[believe09]

gitana1 is right-innocent parents say bring it on-give me the poly, run my financials do what you need to do to clear me and then let's find out what happened to my baby.

Leanna is not a named POI perhaps, but it is clear she is being investigated.

I will be shocked if her husband doesn't roll on her or spill any involvement she might have had. I am still holding out hope that she has been playing him, but that hope is fading.

 

[ScarlettScarpetta]

Holy Toledo. Am I not making myself clear? I agree with you that POI's or suspects should hire an attorney.

But experience shows us that it is mostly only guilty parents who do so within a month of tragedy. I'm sorry if that's not clear enough. I don't know how else to say it and I'm starting to feel frustrated. If I am not being clear enough, my apologies. Perhaps I'm over tired.

And yes, LH has totally clammed up. She hired an attorney. That's the effect of hiring an attorney. She will not be speaking with LE again.

I get what you are saying. I do. I don't see anything in this case that makes hiring an atty odd. I don't. I used to feel the same way that people that hired attys right away are showing guilty behavior but no longer. I see it is evidence as being smart. Especially when I see so many parents hung out to dry and attacked and made to look guilty before they are even charged, if they ever are.

 

[cady]

She zagged all the way to Alabama!

Which was probably the smart thing to do! JMO

 

[Lovejac]

Holy Toledo. Am I not making myself clear? I agree with you that POI's or suspects should hire an attorney.

But experience shows us that it is mostly only guilty parents who do so within a month of tragedy. I'm sorry if that's not clear enough. I don't know how else to say it and I'm starting to feel frustrated. If I am not being clear enough, my apologies. Perhaps I'm over tired.

And yes, LH has totally clammed up. She hired an attorney. That's the effect of hiring an attorney. She will not be speaking with LE again.

You're coming in loud and clear over here :seeya:

And thanks again for explaining the defamation details. :blowkiss:

 

[Sweetgrits]

This. I was 14 when my dad died of cancer. Way back then, people died at the hospital and because of his condition my parents both thought it better I did not see him toward the end (1968, different world, different parenting... they meant well). At any rate, the day he died I did not cry. Not even a little. I was a daddy's girl, and adored him.

So, to this day, I always give people a certain amount of leeway on grieving. No one could figure out why I was so strong. My own theory has always had to do with not seeing for the last couple of months. Because of that, the news of his death was very abstract to me, I think. Not really sure.

However, the night of the wake, although to this day, I don't remember this part, it took both of my brother in laws, one of whom was a very big, very tough Green Beret, to pull me, a skinny 14 year old, off the casket.

So, I could give LH a pass for her immediate lack of emotion. She could well have been in shock. But her behavior at both the funeral and the hearing? No. just no.

I tried to keep an open mind, but if anything this statement from her attorney has tipped me off the fence.
She is worried about her husband and herself.

If it was just the reaction LH had when she found out Cooper was dead and her reaction at the funeral I could give her a little leeway. But look at that picture of her chomping her gum while she listens to the detective describe how this man she's standing by sent pictures of his penis to a 17 y/o girl and received pictures of her exposed breasts while her baby was baking in a hot car. That's not shock, she should be livid. Maybe she could fool herself into believing RH forgot his son but the info she heard in the courtroom should have made her furious. I wonder if her reaction is because she's glad he's been arrested and she will be rid of him and his sexting and cheating. I know I probably would be. JMO

 

[ScarlettScarpetta]

People react to grief very differently. Some go numb. Some bawl. I vomit. My closest friend goes stone-faced and catatonic. You cannot, in my humble opinion, judge someone's grief by their outward appearance as you cannot judge someone's guilt and/or involvement by their expression or appearance at a funeral. I recall reading general discussion threads here (on Somer Thompson) prior to joining Websleuths. This little girl had been abducted, raped and murdered on the way home from school in her own neighborhood after running off from her siblings. The things said about her mother's attire and demeanor the day Somer Thompson was buried were shameful. It later came out her mother had ZERO involvement. I know that this is a forum for crime sleuthing and part of that involves speculation. I don't really think judging someone's outward appearances as 'bad' or 'telling' is accurate or appropriate, though.

This is obviously just my opinion.

That is a good point about Somer Thompson. Her mother did not react like many people we have seen that have lost kids to violence but you are right it was deplorable. People get to celebrate their babies lives as they see fit.

I think that it is possible that she believed it was an accident thinking her DH would never do this, However she could have been enlightened and is now of a different mind. She could be a private crier. And that is okay too.

 

[CHERIE.T]

:clap:

LaLaw ! Long time no see! :seeya:

I'm glad to see you on this thread!

ditto !

 

[MyBelle]

Im sorry, I disagree with you. Today Parents are accused and drug through the mud. Again, I think they should cooperate but they should have a lawyer to protect them from things they don't understand. The police can lie and trick them. They need protection.

Protection from themselves, I agree. Leanna did speak to police. They did hear her make incriminating statements and her admission she had also done research on children dying in hot cars. She didn't lawyer up until AFTER the hearing, right? So, I'm just guessing here but it appears to me that the idea she should lawyer up didn't come from Leanna but instead came from her parents who have to be beside themselves.

I doubt police lied or tricked Leanna into asking her husband if he had said too much. The police didn't know what 'too much' meant but obviously both Leanna and her husband knew what she meant.

JMO

 

[LaLaw2000]

LaLaw ! Long time no see! :seeya:

I'm glad to see you on this thread!

Thanks!

Good to see you too, Lovejac! I've been here since day 1 but mostly just reading!

:loveyou:

 

[LaLaw2000]

:clap:

ditto !

You too, CHERIE.T!

:loveyou:

 

[ATasteOfHoney]

It was a request from another poster, Not a demand. :gaah:

In general, if you post it (which you did) then you "own" it.

I feel the MODS do a great job in keeping us all in check & we all appreciate that.

 

[ScarlettScarpetta]

Anyhoo....

I think this lady has us all perplexed. I still want to give her the benefit of the doubt. I wonder if she searched for the same stuff at JRH request? I wonder if in a way he set her up???

I just don't know. Right now I have to see more. That comment about JRH must have left him in the car is just bothering me though.

 

[PoirotryInMotion]

Speaking of tabloid media, the case is on two covers this week: Globe and Enquirer. One headline is about Leanna.

http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/89730303.html

Tabloid media has a team of lawyers to guide them as to how to write just up to but not over the legal line. As noted earlier in this thread, if a person is considered a "public figure," the rules are a bit less stringent, as well--though I'm not sure if that includes the overnight infamous as well as the famous...not sure if LH and RH fall into that category quite yet, in other words.

 

[MyBelle]

Anyhoo....

I think this lady has us all perplexed. I still want to give her the benefit of the doubt. I wonder if she searched for the same stuff at JRH request? I wonder if in a way he set her up???

I just don't know. Right now I have to see more. That comment about JRH must have left him in the car is just bothering me though.

BBM. Her behavior and comments could also be a reflection of her setting him up or a co-conspiracy. Let's not forget that she is supposed to be a grieving mother but what she showed at her son's funeral wasn't grief, which is a mind-numbing emotion even if you cry no tears. Instead, Leanna chose to give a speech in support of her husband, claimed to not want her son brought back to life even if it was possible and she blamed the world. This, after raising quite a bit of money from supporters.

JMO

 

[LaLaw2000]

She has buried her son, her husband is going to prison, her apt is gone, she is living with her mom, job is gone, ...she should file bankruptcy, cooperate with LE and pray she doesn't end up in prison too. imo

Bravo, popsicle! Here it is in a nutshell! So true.

 

[peedoffinny]

Just bookmarking this spot.

 

[EvilSoup]

IMVHO, this is yet another ill conceived stunt/statement to try and get people to back off. She will be deposed as part of any kind of discovery associated with this kind of activity so it seems highly unlikely that she would agree to start something like this.

Seriously, whoever is leaking or spinning is digging her hole much deeper.

Agreed. If I had been on the fence about Leanna, (which I am not, in all honesty), this gnarly move would have helped me right on over to the "that witch is GUILTY" side.

Lin Wood. Pfftt. Might as well scream you are guilty.