You're right, LaLaw. And I am thankful for being able to hear & speak all kinds of opinions.
My opinion is in large part based on facts that came out in the trials -- both trials. Facts which were not erased in the second trial.
To wit:
- He didn't want to be married.
- He didn't want another child.
- He didn't want to pay child support.
- He had slept with other women during his marriage.
- His wife was running circles around him professionally. In fact, he was failing in each successive job.
- Michelle had a nice insurance policy on her life -- for which he knew not to file a claim...
- Nothing was stolen from the house.
- The house did not appear to be ransacked.
- There was no evidence of a break-in.
- Michelle's handbag was sitting in the middle of the kitchen floor -- nothing seemed to be missing.
- J. Young called Kim on a ruse the next day so that she would go to the Young house to get a print-out -- so that she would find his little daughter. Young even had his mother call her with the same story. His mother had never called Kim before.
- His shirt & shoes & pants shown in the motel video near midnight were never found -- they were not left in his motel room; they were not what he was wearing when he reached Kim's house in Fuquay-Varina; they were not in the luggage in the car which was seized by LE when he reached F-V.
- He was identified by Gracie in the gas station/quick pick place at a time when he said he was asleep in the motel room.
- The camera in the stairwell was tampered with twice that night.
- The exit door in the stairwell was jammed open with a rock from outside the room.
- He said he had breakfast in the motel, but he was not seen on the camera in that breakfast room during the time he said he was there.
- He was late for his meeting that he had scheduled the day after the murder.
- The bloody shoe prints in the bedroom -- yes, two sizes -- one was his size.
- "Daddy is spanking Mommy for biting."
- "Daddy did it," is easy to hear (more than once) on the full 911 call Kim placed when she found her sister dead in the master bedroom.
There's more, but I don't have the time.