My Thoughts on Traci Rhode

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Traci Rhode, a convicted murderer, talked to 48 Hours this past weekend. The show was titled Point Blank. She sobbed her eyes out, yet oddly, a tear never fell from her face. Did you notice?

Furthermore, her voice whined in a high-pitched tone instead of sinking down with sorrow and pain. And every now and then, Traci would smirk or smile when talking about the events surrounding her husband’s death. I saw nothing in her behaviors or demeanor that supported honesty.

Add to that, Traci tells us her husband was über jealous, moving her across the country five times to keep her away from friends and family in thirteen years. I think everyone would agree by that statement that her husband was exceptionally jealous.

Read moreBut when you think about it, does a move like that make sense? Does a move like that help guarantee one will have no affairs? Would it give you peace if you were jealous? I don’t see much sense in that when I give it thought, do you? Each new move would bring new opportunities for new love interests. Is that what Scott really thought? While we will never know, it makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

What makes even less sense is that if Traci’s husband, Scott, was the exceptionally jealous type, why would she confess to him that there was someone else in her life?? This flat out doesn’t sit right with me.

Women who are married to very jealous men are usually victim beans about a new interest in their life who is male–friend or lover. They just wouldn’t do it, because they would fear for their life, or at the very minimum, they would fear the ridicule and sleuthing that would likely follow for years afterwards. That ridicule, after all, is what Traci tells us she had to endure for years. So why would she bring more of it on herself? Does it make any sense?

Yet, oddly, Traci doesn’t seem to have any fear about telling her husband about this new guy. It’s illogical. It’s a contradiction. When someone makes your life hell, you don’t add more fuel to the fire, unless of course, you have plans to eliminate the inferno. Or, there was no inferno at all.

Furthermore, if Scott was that jealous, Traci’s friends and family would have likely seen bouts of jealousy and perhaps controlling behavior, but instead Traci’s friend only tells us what Traci told her. She doesn’t seem to have any firsthand accounts herself. I find that odd as well. There should have been more clues. More people should have picked up on it, but we didn’t hear any supporting evidence outside of what Traci says.

I also found it odd what Traci said about her new “friend” with whom she shared a passionate kiss. She said it was “…good to have somebody pay attention to me.” This is another red flag.

Jealous men usually pay way too much attention to their wife. They never give them a minute of peace, so this, too, is a contradiction. A jealous husband is usually very demanding, and hands- on. If anything, the wife of a jealous husband would likely just want some free time alone without anyone bothering her. She certainly wouldn’t be clamoring for more attention — risky attention— that would just inflame the troubles she already has, would she? It defies logic.

Also, who commits suicide and puts a pillow over their face? Have you ever heard of this before? It’s even more strange for a guy to do this! It seems like an act of someone who is sanitary, who wants things clean. Who would have this motive? Scott or Traci? Wasn’t Traci a nurse? A nurse who says she is sensitive to the smell of blood?

I also find it very strange that Traci says she didn’t help Scott because she was in shock. She was a nurse.

There is also an unidentified palm print on the gun Scott supposedly used to kill himself. They say it doesn’t match Traci, the police or Scott. Have they ever tried to match it to Traci’s new love interest, Shawn? Whose palm print is this? I think this is important.

I also wonder was if anyone ever saw Traci that morning to verify that she took a walk? Or could she have been elsewhere? With someone else? Did she always take a morning walk, or did she only do it on this day?

What are the odds that within 10 days of husband’s death, Traci would be ready to sleep with Shawn, if she was a grieving wife who just wanted to work things out with her husband? And why would she hide it by going to The Red Roof Inn? She says they were only going there to talk–to talk about what? What would she have to talk to Shawn about?

What are the odds that her husband who supposedly committed suicide would even bother talking to a divorce attorney, and ask for full custody of the kids within 24 hours of his death? Why would he waste his time if he felt his time on this earth was over? Why would he bother bringing his wife to his attorney’s office? None of this makes any sense.

Traci’s last public account of her, and her husband together on 48 Hours wasn’t of them at odds at each other either. She says, “…I laid my head on his chest. It wasn’t anger anymore…it was just a loving couple just trying to work out our problems.”

So why would Scott feel so despondent? Traci gave into him that night.

What are the odds Traci would then date Shawn on and off for two and a half years after Scott’s death?

Did Scott break the camel’s back when he took Traci to his attorney that day? Did he infuriate her when he threatened to take the children away fairly and squarely with the legal system? Did he blindside her? Did she then play nice, go home and snap?

You sure do wonder.

Matt Baker on 48 Hours: What Are The Odds?

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The Matt and Kari Baker story was on 48 Hours this past Saturday. The show was titled The Preacher’s Wife. If you aren’t familiar with the story, you can read my first post on the case here. You can also watch the show online here.

I think most people see clearly that what Matt says compared to what others say just doesn’t add up. It doesn’t take eyes for lies to see this.

Unfortunately, 48 Hours gives us a fair amount of talk time with Matt, but they don’t show his face through a lot of it, which I find very unfortunate. If he makes any good expressions, we don’t get to see them. What we do see of Matt emotionally is not consistent with a man who supposedly loved his wife. Matt shows a faint, subtle smile from time to time that I find absolutely eerie and inappropriate.

Read moreThe first time he does it is at the end of the intro to the show. Matt says “My name is Matt Baker, and I have been accused of murdering my wife. It’s so unprobable [sic]. It’s not who I am. I loved my wife. I never hurt her a day in my life.” At the end, he is grinning. Did you see it?

The second time I see this subtle grin is when he talked about Kari having almost two personalities. There is absolutely no reason for Matt to be feeling any positive emotions at this time. It’s a complete contradiction to his circumstances. I am only part way through the video at this time, so there may be more examples of this that I have yet to document. I also find the word “almost” interesting as well. You either believe something or you don’t. You don’t almost believe.

Matt wants people to believe Kari acted one way around him because she was grieving, but another way around everyone else. People who are unstable or depressed don’t pick and choose when to display it. They are either unstable and depressed across the board, or they are not.

Matt even tries to tell us that she lost it, and flipped out while he was driving with her in the car one day. He says that she opened the car door because she needed to “get air” when they were moving, and that he had to rescue her by grabbing her waistband. Isn’t it ironic that Kari only flipped out around him, and no one else?

I think on ABC’s 20/20, Matt said they were going around 35 miles an hour, if I remember right. I think he said “not that fast”. Now on 48 Hours, he says they were going 45-50 mph. That’s an interesting change of facts. Wouldn’t Kari be even more insane to open the car door at faster speeds?

I wonder if the doctor will testify that Kari truly was hyperventilating, as Matt says prior her trying to “get air” on the way home in the car. I suspect it is unlikely.

I personally believe Matt is coming up with stories to make us think Kari was unstable. But if she was truly unstable, it would have spilled out in front of her parents, friends, and co-workers, but none of these people ever speak of being witness to any such behavior. In fact, they seem to report a totally different person than what Matt reports.

I also find it extremely strange that Kari wanted to drink on a queasy stomach. Who does this? I personally think this is absolute nonsense. I wonder if they tested her blood for alcohol?

I also don’t buy Matt’s story that Kari wasn’t feeling well, and yet she wanted him to go gas up the car and rent a movie. If you don’t feel well, you don’t send your husband out at 11 pm, and you don’t stay up until 3 a.m. watching movies. Did Matt just need an excuse to leave the house?

Also, Matt told two different stories of what he did when he last saw Kari alive. The last time you see your spouse alive is usually burned into your memory. Obviously, it is not burned into Matt’s memory. One time, Matt told Erin Moriarty of 48 Hours that when he left Kari to rent the movies, Kari was sleeping. “She had rolled back over and gone to sleep. So when I left, she was asleep.”

Two months prior, he had told Moriarty that he kissed her on the cheek. Which story is it? Why does Matt keep getting his facts confused over and over, if he is telling the truth?

Matt also says something very strange when he says, “…as I am calling 911, I’m deciding I don’t want them to see her naked. So I put her clothes on.”

This is exceptionally bizarre.

Most people only have one concern when a loved one is near death, dying, or has just died. It is hope to try to revive them. In a time of crisis, we don’t have room for any other thoughts! But Matt doesn’t even think about this when he is on the phone with 911 from what we hear. Instead, he worries about his naked wife. It’s absolute rubbish.

Also, was he trying to put her clothes on when he was on the phone with 911? Is there support of this on the audio tape? Does he breathe heavy or labored?

He also says when he was on the phone, he was moving Kari to the floor to do CPR. Does this make any sense? I don’t believe you have to have to be on the floor to do CPR, do you? I also wonder if there is any sounds of exertion on the 911 call to support Matt’s story of moving Kari while on the phone? Or did Kari end up on the floor another way?

Also, the police find a bottle of Unisom next to Kari’s bed, which is completely empty outside of two pills on the dresser. On autopsy, wouldn’t you expect they would find pill remnants in Kari’s stomach? Yet oddly, there is no mention of pill remnants in her stomach or GI tract, just traces in her muscle tissue. Would that trace in her muscle tissue be enough to be considered lethal?

I also find the typed suicide note exceptionally unusual as well. Why would one type it and not sign it? Why would it only be a few sentences ? Women are word warriors! Most women would also be very conscious not to commit suicide naked. Women are self-conscious of their bodies. I don’t know of one women who would choose to go this way, if they had a choice. I will review the suicide note in an upcoming posting.

Kari’s former grief counselor’s account doesn’t support Matt’s story, either. She said Kari wasn’t upset about Kassidy’s death as Matt says. Three days before she died, the counselor says Kari was worried that Matt was having an affair, and she was afraid he was trying to kill her.

What are the odds?

Kari also told her friend Jill that she was worried about an affair, and Jill corroborates this on 48 Hours as well.

Who is corroborating Matt’ story?

What are the odds that Kari would find “crushed pills” in Matt’s briefcase, and then die shortly thereafter with an empty bottle of pills, yet with no remnants in her stomach?

What are the odds that Matt would have an unusual relationship with a young single woman named Vanessa at the same time Kari was afraid he was having an affair?

What are the odds that Matt would talk to Vanessa within days after Kari’s death for 28 hours in ten days, if she was only a friend?

What are the odds he would give Vanessa Kari’s cell phone to use after her death, if she was only a friend?

What are the odds he would also be seen in a jewelry store looking at jewelry with Vanessa within days of Kari’s death, if she was only a friend?

The odds are one-in-a-million, and certainly don’t support the story that Matt wants us to believe.

Also, take Matt’s computers. Amazingly, his office computer was switched with his secretary and his just vanished. And even more perfect in timing, his hard drive on his home computer just went kaput, and is no longer working. The odds are getting ridiculous, if you ask me.

Furthermore, Matt wants us to believe he is the perfect husband and dad, doting on his children while Kari was lost in her abyss, and mourning over Kassidy–seven years after Kassidy’s death. It’s just over-the-top.

Matt talks of bathing the children, reading to them, putting them to bed, but when he is confronted about allegations that he inappropriately came on to young girls and women, he flat out denies it. Kari’s aunt Kay corroborates this with a story of her daughter, as does a woman from Matt’s college days on 48 Hours. Lora Wilson says 17 years ago Matt grabbed her, and made inappropriate sexual advances on her.

Matt’s story? He simply turned off the lights and scared Lora. Does that seem logical? He admits to knowing Lora as well as to scaring her, but of course, in Matt’s version of events, he was totally innocent again. He says, according to 20/20, it was just a ” fantasy of a hysterical coed.”

What are the odds?

ABC News show 20/20 say they documented six other complaints against Matt.

“20/20” documented six other complaints against Matt: from a female custodian from the First Baptist Church of Waco, who says he grabbed her sexually; a teenage girl from the same church who claimed he spoke to her in a sexually provocative manner; and at the YMCA where he supervised the day camp, four young women complained to management of improper sexual conduct (source).

Are these people all crazy like Kari was?

What are the odds?

Matt also gets caught up in another lie. He says he never blamed Kari for Kassidy’s death, but an e-mail which has surfaced from Matt to Kari that says the following “I know deep down I hold a grudge against God and you for Him answering your prayer and not mine. In some ways, I do hold you…to blame for her death.”

At Kari’s funeral, the grief counselor confronted Matt about the fact that Kari thought he was going to kill her, and Matt’s response on 48 Hours as he tells the story is interesting. He says “And I said, ‘What? Well, wait, wait, wait. ‘ And I’m like, what is going on here?”

Is that how you would respond to something like this? Why would you ever say “wait, wait, wait”? Most people would say that’s ridiculous and would just walk away. It would be adding insult to a serious injury. They wouldn’t even entertain the thought or dignify a response because it would be so far-fetched. It would be a ridiculous slap in the face!

But Matt does entertain it, and he seems to want to defend it when he says “wait, wait, wait.” You usually say “wait”, or “wait a minute” to people when you have something to explain or justify. It’s a notable response that is out of the ordinary if he was blind-sided by something he knew he had nothing to do with. I find his response hair-raising, to say the least.

Another contradiction in Matt’s story is when he talks about how Kari’s outlook about her new job. He doesn’t say she was excited. He says she was “nervous” and feeling sick. But Kari’s friend, Todd, says when he talked to her the day she died, she was “excited”. Someone who is going to commit suicide isn’t excited about a job prospect if they have no intention of taking it, are they?

Matt also got his facts mixed up about the first time he saw the suicide note. “The police officer brings me the note, and that was the first thought at the point in time, she took her own life.”

But on the 911 call, Matt says, “I think my wife just committed suicide….and her lips are blue, her hands are cold, and there’s a note that says, “I’m sorry, ‘basically.”

This is not a case where you need eyes for lies to decipher the truth. You need good old common sense.

What are the odds?

Mechele Linehan

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Mechele Linehan was profiled on 48 Hours this past weekend. The segment was titled Love and Death in the Wild.

Mechele was a beautiful girl who knew the power of attraction, and she learned at a very young age how to use it. She had no problem attracting men so when she took a job as an exotic dancer at the age of 18 in Alaska, it would come as no surprise that the men encircled her off the stage as well.

48 Hours found several men with whom she dated, and who wanted to marry her. And supposedly she was engaged to three men at one time (or at least they thought they were). Each of the guys being much older than her. Two of the three talked to 48 Hours.

Read more The story is long and involved, but Linehan never married any of them men, and one of them, Kent Leppink, turned up dead during the time Linehan was seeing him. At the time of Leppink’s murder, however, Linehan was out of town.

With that, Linehan was never charged, and eventually moved on to Washington state, married a doctor, got a master’s degree and had a child.

Eight years would pass before a cold case unit picked up the case and followed up on it, and when they did, they narrowed in on Mechele.

Leppink left behind a letter from the grave professing his love for Linehan, but also said that if anything happened to him that looked suspicious to look at Michele or the other people in her life.

I am not going to detail all the events of the story as you can read all about it on 48 Hours website yourself, but I will tell you that Linehan was finally arrested, charged and convicted of the first degree murder of Kent Leppink yet she still swears to this day she had nothing to do with his murder.

Linehan’s husband and a friend appeared on 48 Hours to stand beside her in their belief she is innocent as did a handful of people who swore Mechele was a manipulative, deceitful liar.

With that, I wanted to share with you what I saw. Is Mechele a decent person whose life story is being twisted and used against her, or is she a mastermind deceiver?

First off, I think the facts don’t bode well for Mechele at all. I think most people will see logically her behavior and actions don’t add up to “love” as she led these men to think it was. The life insurance policy for Kent is exceptionally unusual. Most young 20-year-olds don’t think of taking out a life insurance policy on someone — let alone someone they now profess was likely gay (which I don’t believe for a minute). It defies logic. I find the timing of Mechele’s calls about Kent’s life insurance policy before his death is exceptionally odd, too. I see a whole host of red flags, and I could probably post an entire post about those, but putting all of this aside, what do I see?

Mechele plays the part of a sweet, innocent, demure women in the interview with 48 Hours. She is soft-spoken, and gentle (she reminds me a bit of Melanie McGuire in that sense). She softly weeps as she wipes the tears from her eyes begging for you to sympathize with her.

I find this classic deceptive behavior. When I see people talking really soft and demure, when they are a grown adult, no matter happy or sad, it is almost always a red flag for me. It’s unusual behavior for adults unless they are especially shy and reserved which clearly Mechele wasn’t, or she wouldn’t have stripped in a club for a living. Any time I see this mousy behavior, I go into high alert. It’s a big red flag.

Furthermore, Mechele’s emotions don’t jive for me. They are off, not on target, or as they should be. You can see her assessing the situation, and playing the interviewer. She even gets so brash as to say that if she cried in front of the jury, the jury would hold it against her, or if she didn’t, they would hold it against her. It was the manner, and way she said it that raised a red flag for me. Clearly, she was thinking how she could manipulate the jury. Unfortunately, 48 Hours didn’t load any video of Mechele for me to critique for you.

This case is about circumstances that are a too unusual, about a suspect whose stories don’t add up, and about a woman who was an incredible manipulator who I suspect learned to harness the power of sex in men who were lonely and longing to get what she craved: money.

I also don’t trust her other boyfriend or friend Carlin either. He makes my hair stand on edge.

I feel sad for Mechele’s husband, her daughter and her friend. They can’t see the real Mechele. She’s a cold, calculating woman who obviously had no problem using people and disposing of them to suit her needs–no matter how ruthless it was.

“Who Killed the Beauty Queen?”

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Last Saturday night, 48 Hours profiled the case of Nona Dirksmeyer, a 19-year-old pageant queen who was found dead by her boyfriend Kevin Jones. She was murdered.

Jones was with his mother when he discovered her lifeless body, and his mother called 911. Jones wanted to assist the police with the case, but ultimately he ended up getting charged with her murder and faced a trial by jury.

Read moreSeveral of you have asked me, do I believe Kevin Jones in innocent? The jury let Jones go free, but Dirksmeyer’s family believes he is getting away with murder even still.

The police found Jones’ behavior odd on multiple occasions. When they came to the crime scene after the 911 call, Jones went to shake the police detectives hands, but Jones then realized he was covered in blood from trying to revive Dirksmeyer, and so he pulled back his hands. The police found this odd behavior.

I do not. If Jones was a polite man, his manners are a part of his normal behaviors, and they wouldn’t dissipate in a difficult time. This does not raise my eyebrows.

The police also found Jones behavior in the interrogation room suggestive that he could be a violent person. When detectives left the room where Jones was at, he hit the back of the chair he was sitting in hard multiple times. He was angry and visibly upset. Why would he do that? Does it mean he is violent?

If Jones loved Dirksmeyer, and he wasn’t able to protect her, and someone killed her, he may have felt like a failure. He may have felt like he let Nona down even though he wasn’t there when this happened. This is likely an emotional response due to the feelings of being helpless after the fact. That’s what I suspect was going on here. Or he was frustrated that he wasn’t being believed when he was telling the truth. Could his actions be suggestive of violence? They absolutely could, but it is nothing definitive own its own. If there are not any character witnesses to corroborated that Jones had violent behavior, I would discount this, personally.

Jones volunteered to help the police by submitting to DNA tests and by taking a polygraph, but surprisingly he failed the polygraph which only caused police to look at him even closer. Polygraphs, in my eyes, are not reliable so I wouldn’t much too much into this.

At the crime scene, the police believe they found the smoking gun when they found Jones palm print on the light-bulb of the lamp police believe was used to deliver a fatal blow to Dirksmeyer.

I suspect that Jones could have easily grabbed that light-bulb when he found Dirksmeyer and tried to revive her. Perhaps it was in the way? I do not see this as any smoking gun.

Another interesting fact in this case is that at the scene police found a used condom wrapper, and with that, they theorized that Jones found it and went into a rage, and killed Dirksmeyer because Dirksmeyer had been seeing other men behind his back.

Those other men were ruled out by police.

When I watch Jones, I do not see a man who is violent, and while all people have the potential to be violent, he doesn’t hit me as a man who would kill his girlfriend over her finding a condom wrapper. He is more likely the type to buy into a story that Dirksmeyer would make up to cover herself. Jones was a trusting, honest guy as seen by his willingness to assist the police so freely. I also think it would take more than infidelity with his girlfriend to get Jones murderous. He is not a man who has a temper. Those who knew Jones testified to that fact.

Furthermore, the police only checked the condom wrapper for finger prints, but not DNA. They said the lab would only do one or the other but not both because each test could potentially render the other useless. I find that unusual, but I am not a forensic expert. In either case, no finger prints were found.

And the jury? It took less than 2 days to find Jones not guilty, and I agree with the jury. When I watch Jones’ behavior, I do not see one red flag. I see nothing that alerts me to deception. I see honesty through and through. I believe Jones without any doubts. He is a good person caught in a horrible situation as is his mother.

And it looks like this case isn’t over yet. Remember that condom wrapper? Well, Jones defense attorneys had it tested for DNA and they found some. It belongs to a male other than Jones. Of course, people who thinks Jones is guilty will say this makes sense.

I think this DNA may provide important clues to help solve who really killed Dirksmeyer because it wasn’t Jones, if you want my personal opinion.

48 Hours: Jenny Eisenman

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Last night, 48 Hours profiled the case of Jenny Eisenman. Jenny was a wife, a mother, a second grade teacher, and a woman who admitted to shooting her husband dead. Jenny, however, claims she acted in self-defense and that her husband abused her.

Is Jenny being honest when she claims she acted in self-defense, or is she being deceptive?

A jury decided that Jenny Eisenman was not acting in self-defense, and sentenced her to 23 years in prison. Yet 48 Hours brought back some of the jurors and discussed case facts that were withheld from them during trial.

Read more In trial, photos of bruises on Jenny’s legs taken after the murder were withheld from jury as was testimony from a friend of Drew who said Drew admitted to him that he got “physical” (at one point) with Jenny.

Juror Ann Robey says if she had known then what she knows now, it could have changed everything because she could not have voted to convict. “What I now know? I don’t think so. It probably would’ve been hung,” she says.

It could have been a hung jury. “I would have really held my ground,” Robey says.

Clearly, this is a case where people fall on both sides of the pendulum. Some believe Jenny, others don’t.

When I watched the 48 Hours interview, I saw a mountain of clues that led me to doubt Jenny’s story, over and over again. Do I think she and Drew fought at times? Yes. Do I think things got physical between them at times? I do, but I don’t believe Drew was the monster Jenny wants us to believe he was. And I don’t believe the night that Drew was murdered that he came at her like she tells us he did.

Jenny told police that on the night of murder in the interrogation video “He came at me, then he just kinda he fell back, then he kinda got up like to come at me again.” She says this as she talks of shooting him.

This sentence was a huge red flag for me.

First, when someone is threatening me and violating me, they don’t “kinda” do anything. They are coming at me, attacking me, scaring me…not kinda getting up to come at me again! They either did or they didn’t. They didn’t kinda do it.

People who are deceptive, I have noticed, try to make strong sentences, but inadvertently, most likely subconsciously, use the word “kinda” ( or kind of) in the mix. They want to make a strong statement but kinda weaken it a bit which makes no logical sense.

Another person who used the word kinda is Matthew Gretz. He is facing trial for murdering his spouse. He was trying to play the part of a distressed husband, kinda. You are either distressed or you aren’t. You aren’t kinda distressed.

Think back to something in your life where you felt threatened or violated. Describe the incident. Say it aloud. Did the perpetrator “kinda” scare you, or did he scare you, come at you, threaten you? Or did he kinda threaten you, kinda scare you, kinda come at you? It’s illogical when you look at it for what it is.

Furthermore, Jenny recounted her life much like an actor would who was creating a scene. She would play the parts as she discussed them. She said something to the affect that she and Drew were pretending to live the perfect life, and when she said that, she put on a “pretend” posture as if she were pretending to be happy for that second when she recalled it. Honest people when recalling a story don’t re-enact the facts as they tell them (i.e I was happy at that time so look at me smile now). They usually tell the scenario again with deep emotions, showing their pain, and feelings in the aftermath.

Instead, Jenny seems to have no pain in the aftermath, whatsoever. Rather, she genuinely laughs at points during her interview which is hair raising. Most people after a serious traumatic event, such as murder in self-defense, typically don’t feel like laughing for a while afterwards. This is another red flag.

Look at Jenny on the interrogation video, she is matter-of-fact. She is without emotions as if she is telling someone about a spat between two children, not the self-defense murder of her husband. This was a traumatic event, but she shows not signs of trauma. If your life is threatened, you are traumatized. Period. Why isn’t she?

When the interrogator asks Jenny if Drew was panicked, Jenny says, “I think he was tryin to stay calm.” This is not how someone who experienced this situation would respond. They would give the facts by stating yes or no. The would not speculate what Drew was attempting to do with his emotions. After all, if she wants us to believe her life was on the line, how did she have time to speculate about Drew’s emotions? It’s nonsense and rubbish.

The investigator asks if she had her “eyes open when she was firin?” Jenny says “The first time?… When I shot the wall, I did.” Here she pauses after the asking the question “The first time?”, and thinks about it. Then she answers. This appears to be thinking-on-her-feet speech. She doesn’t seem to be recollecting a memory, or be confused, or have no memory from the trauma.

Jenny’s tone of voice is another red flag for me. I don’t know why, but it is.

Jenny tried to dispose of her husband’s body, bought all the things she needed to conceal the crime, and shows absolutely no real genuine emotions of sorrow or fear when she talks to police. She is quite content to read People magazine, have a soda and a snack. Is this a woman who feared for her life? A woman who is traumatized by a cruel husband?

Her body language shows no signs of stress outside of the fact she is chewing her finger nails which could also be a sign of nerves, fear or even boredom.

Jenny could have experienced shock from a trauma like this, but in the police interrogation I would expect to see signs of that such as confusion or denial, but I don’t. I see none of it.

Justice, in this case, if you want my opinion was served as deserved.