Well another long day of Jake and Angie. I am getting really sick of their names.
But we did learn a few things about George. He likes the ladies. Who*****s to be exact. He likes to stay out all night on weekends. Dare I say drinking as CN said? (gasp) No wonder Angie told George he was going to Hell. I believe he could have even been drinking while he was with a who*****e, OMG. After all he is a single man so he has no business running around with women and staying out all night. Or hanging out with Chris, drinking (per CN). If fact she said he was hardly ever around, so much so that she didn't see him much at all, just heard him coming and going from the house, except for the times he was arguing with Jake and Angie, I guess about his philandering ways.
Seriously Beth helped George enormously. When he threatened violence against DeWine and BCI agents Beth said it was a bluff, George was just blowing off steam, and that George was just a blowhard, that he didn't mean what he said. Well let's kick that threatening violence toward law enforcement to the garbage heap. Something Canepa made up to deny him bond. Now we see why when Yost took over the Ohio AG office he fired her and pushed her off on Pike county.
While we are on Canepa, Beth debunked that cultish, enmeshed family theory AC threw out there. But that has been the theme from all the witnesses who are not LE. I think the only reason George stayed was because he needed a babysitter for his son. Otherwise he would have left that bat shyte crazy mom and brother of his and moved into his own house long before Angie and Jake killed an entire family.
George told them he was taking his son and moving back to Ohio, whether AW and JW came or not. Billy had already gone back, probably having had enough of Angie and Jake and their, let's see how did Beth put it, "High and mighty ways." I could see how that judgmental attitude could wear on a persons nerves. (one reason my Bible thumping son is only allowed to visit me for one hour. lol)
On the other hand I think Beth did great!!!!!! Very smart, steady, firm young lady who would not allow the defense to twist her words. She said what she meant and meant what she said. I very much admired her, especially when she walked out of that courtroom with her head held high. She went through hell with Jake and Angie and came out alive and it would appear very stable.
But Beth helped George a lot. She didn't really have anything bad to say about him other than he yelled, but apparently that is the way they discussed things. First she showed how he was away most of the time. He worked through the week and on weekends he left and stayed out late. He hung out with Chris and Randa. He liked the ladies for sure. He told off colored jokes that she didn't approve of but in todays world we have an ex leader who told a reporter in an interview how he would grab women's private parts, and even strict Christians called it "just locker room talk" and voted for him anyway.
But coming from an Amish community she probably didn't appreciate those jokes. She told how he fought with Angie and Jake over a lot of things, meaning he did not go along with their bat shyte crazy ideas at all. How he told them flat out he was taking his son and moving back to Ohio, showing he and Billy was not part of a cultish, enmeshed family. Chris said basically the same thing, that George didn't stay home much.
There was some very disturbing things in her testimony though.
How at first she thought Jake and Angie were a couple. Don't want to get into that sickness but I was hoping the defense would ask her why she thought that.
The fact that Jake slept with SW in the bed between Beth and him or with him between Beth and SW. Screams pedophile to me and shows why he was so determined that Hannah would not take SW from him. And why he even tried to get KR, perhaps to groom a girl from infancy for his pleasure. I would also add as more evidence that he was a pedophile, Beth testified she and him only had sex once a week. I could believe that if he was an older man married for 20 years with a houseful of kids. But a young man like that, newly married, he shows he definitely was not attracted to Beth who at 25 was too old for him.
That he believed Angie over his wife, similar to him believing Angie over Hannah. Even to the point that he believed Angie when she said Beth molested SW. I can't even imagine how that poor girl felt when AW and JW confronted her with that. Beth must have been horrified. Especially when Jake and Angie threatened to tie her up, beat her to death with a ball bat behind the barn, then burn the barn down. I noticed she did not tell BCI agents that she believed that Jake and Angie were just bluffing when they threatened her with violence. Huge difference between AW and JW and George in Beth's mind.
And once again we see the pattern of Jake picking vulnerable, naive girls who have been sexually molested as a child.
Many things about her testimony concerning Jake and Angie was very disturbing.
But she made George come off looking like a normal young man, who went out with girls, stayed out all night and told off color jokes and hung out with his uncle drinking. Pretty common for young men everywhere.
JMO
