Angela is a coward. I figured the last thing she wanted to do was go to trial. Have to sit and look at picture after picture of victim after victim. Picture after picture of crime scene after crime scene. Picture after picture of babies covered in blood that was left at the crime scenes. To listen as A.C. Listed evidence after evidence of everything she has done. People like Angela can dish it out all day long but when it’s dished back they just CAN NOT swallow. No, she is a true coward that hid behind her husbands violent reputation. Also, someone posted earlier that without her instigating the situation, the murders would not have happened. I agree to a certain extent. I believe that Jake would have eventually murdered or attempted to murder Hannah, he was that obsessed. My opinion.
Angela instigating? Yes for sure.
I think it's underestimated how much of a green light Angie gave to these homicides.
According to Canepa today, Angie was hacked into and spying on Hanna's and Patricia's (George's ex MIL) Facebook private messages.
She took many screen shots and showed Jake the screenshot of the pivotal conversation where Hanna told Patricia she would never sign anything, they would have to kill her first.
It was only 4 months later that Hanna was shot. 11 shots in her home alone, between her and her mom and little brother.
Angie used this Facebook message to confront Jake, like "what are you going to do about it?" I believe she pushed him hard to get custody - for her!
Angie was so close to Jake she controlled him and could have kept him from shooting anyone.
She was an extremely controlling mother with him who kept him isolated with home schooling, encouraged him to always live with her even when having his own family, shared bank accounts with him meaning he was supporting her financially, had the family voting on his personal matters, and so forth.
Thus, she was the linchpin in his life the most important person with the most influence.
She could have showed him that Facebook message and told him she would help to work things out between he and Hanna.
She could have invited Chris and Dana over for a meal or coffee, made the peace etc...
But nope, she set the whole family on the course she wanted. She wanted a certain life and nobody would stand in her way, not even her own mother who she almost took to prison with her.
Rhoden Family Member:
"I see a woman with no sympathy, no remorse," she said, commenting on the sentence. "She's getting 30 years more than what our family gets,"
...2 Cents...
Information comes from Other Acts Evidence and Scheiderer's testimony at George's Bond Hearing.