My brother in law is a cop. He and my sister watched it over the weekend and he said 'they chose the bench trial because they knew her reputation in the community was trash. Her defense team knew a seasoned judge would tune out the public outrage, ignore the bad press, and just stick strictly to the hard forensic and black box data.' Pretty fair.
lol totally agree. i was side-eyeing that friend that was interviewed the whole time. she was very sus. not that she was in the know of the crime, just a shady character/person in general.
Finally watched it. Not the outcome I expected.
Way way back when I was in HS I worked at a grocery store. One day I was working there was a mom, dad, and what looked like a 5 year old boy walking down the aisle I was stocking in. The kid was throwing a complete tantrum as they approached where I was working. The dad was silent, the mom was pleading with the kid asking him what he wanted. The kid said he wanted to go home. The mom then told the dad ok we'd better leave and go home. I was just looking at them, she then looked at me and said "I don't make him do anything he doesn't want to do."
I have an aunt and uncle who were just like those parents. My aunt/uncle never in my life growing up with my cousins I was close with said no to the kids. Ever. About anything. And if the kids got in trouble at school or something the aunt/uncle just shrugged their shoulders and were like 'well, we told them not to do that'.
It's the easy way out. And it's just lazy, irresponsible parenting. I still remember the first time one of our daughters told us "I hate you!" She was in 6th grade, didn't go to school that day because she said she wasn't feeling well. We had our suspicions about how sick she really was, but it was the first time that year she'd stayed home sick from school, so we let her. Then later in the day when school was out one of her friends was having a pool party and she wanted to go. We told her absolutely not, if you were too sick for school today, you're too sick for a pool party. She of course threw a fit about it, all of her friends were going to be there, and that's when it came... "I HATE YOU!" before running back up to her room. Obviously it doesn't feel great hearing your kid say that, but it would've been ridiculous of us to let her go. We all laugh about it today.
Just like the unknown sender doc they came out the other side looking worse. I wonder if they got to see the doc before it was released and thought that they made a good case?
Yeah I'm starting to tire of all of the true crime docs. It's become so obvious that they're produced by people looking to win a PR battle. It's less about unspooling a mystery, and more about gaining sympathy or favor from the viewer.
I think hitting the sign the way she did turned the car just enough to direct the impact to the front right of the vehicle. Had she managed to hit the building head on, who knows if she survives.
I kinda thought that too, but it seems pretty unlikely that this first sign impact was actually intentional the way it went down. It would take some impressive driving precision at 100 MPH to perfectly clip that the way she did without causing some sort of other incident (getting crushed into the sign instead, flipping the car, veering it completely onto a different route, etc). If she really did plan the clip and managed it to still go through it and on a straight path, consider me highly impressed she's able to do that at night at 100. If not intentional, that's some insanely dumb luck that happened to go her maybe...sort of, I guess.
Yeah, I wasn't implying she hit the sign on purpose. As it was, based on the road layout, she had to angle to the right to miss some trees to hit the building and probably thought she could miss the sign too but failed to do so at those speeds.
