Prosecution needs to address Martin's story about the position of Michelle's body - which MM described (and demonstrated) as being found slumped over the side of tub in a face down position when Ada discovered her. Why would he so blatantly lie about that? Every witness has claimed otherwise. It seemingly does not make sense. But it does if you think timeline.
I think what happened was that the body WAS in that position described by Martin at some point. Shortly after he gives her an incapacitating drug overdose of CNS depressants - Ambien, Percoccet, Oxycodone, Phenergan - (or potassium as others have speculated) - and she is completely unable to function, he finalizes the murder by leaning her unconscious body face forward into a tub of water resulting in death by drowning.
He is a doctor, he knows that lividity (& the white pressure blotches) will set in within 1/2 - 1 hour and that will screw up his timeline. So, before he leaves the house to have his photo take or to collect Ada, and before significant lividity can appear, he pushes her all the way into the bathtub onto her back (not noticing that her head is in the unusual position of being under the faucet). Moving a body (especially turning it over) within the first hour or two can mitigate/
the presence of lividity. He knows this.
He has concocted such an elaborate lie (which makes remembering every small detail very difficult), that he inadvertently tells & demonstrates to Alexis, and later Rachel, that he and Ada found Michelle's body slumped over the edge of the tub - face down into the water. We know this to be inaccurate based on Ada's statements as well as testimony from the two neighbors called into the house by Ada. MM's statement is indisputably wrong & the question is why would he lie about that.
Everything he has done - including the early call to Alexis from the clinic phone expressing his concern for Michelle - was done to establish a timeline that exonerates him. According to MM, he was at the Health Fair getting his picture taken when death supposedly occurred. Everything about his defense is an attempt to muddy the timeline and to give him an alibi.
With respect to the drugs, I suspect he substituted Oxycodone and other narcotics for the normally prescribed Premarin, antibiotics & hypertension drugs as a means to convince Michelle to take an overdose.
Son Damian and girlfriend would not recognize the proper shape/color of pills from the various prescriptions so the whole "inventory of pills" was a ruse to cover his tracks in the event that the girlfriend or Damian happened to accurately remember that there remained x number of pills in the antibiotic (or another) bottle. Flushing them down the toilet eliminated the possibility of tests to determine exactly what each pill truly was.
The fatal flaw in his twisted plot is his statement about the position of Michelle's body upon discovery by Ada.
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