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goodmorning! I have been busy in RL lately but have read every single post by you wonderful people. THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATES.
If I were on the jury I would find her guilty. No insanity for my vote. Based on the notes, the calendar, and a bunch more she clearly planned this. I was surprised that they didn't stress the one note where she mentioned that C would maybe go to heaven! (vs herself and her son for sure going to heaven).
This woman was MI but she was also very angry imhoo and planned this out.
That being said the entire thing is just so tragic. :-(
I am clearly not on the fence and feel very comfortable with my opinion that she should be found Guilty of First Degree Murder.
The last doctor who testified wrapped it all up in a neat bow for me.
Everything she did beginning five days before the murders until she executed the murders took clear cognitive thinking. She accomplished everything she set out to do. I no more believe she was planning on committing suicide anyway.
I have no doubts whatsoever that she was not insane at the time and she did know how to calculate and plan all of this out to a tee. All of that takes clear cognitive thought to plan this out and then execute it.
All the things she did to cover it up also has convinced me she is not legally insane. How she lied to Beau about it being a toy gun.... to how she crept up behind Caylx and lied why she was there. How she put the vehicle in the garage knowing her murdered son was inside of it even though she had never parked there before. All of her own words and actions shows me she is one evil, cunning, and manipulative murderer.
IMO
'Morning everyone!
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See this is where I'm hung up. JS was well practiced at pretending to be 'ok'. I think she pulled it together enough for appearance sake (very important in the military) on many occasions. So while it seems she was thinking clearly and functioning well cognitively, it could've been an 'act'. People with BP type 1 IN psychotic breaks CAN appear clear thinking if they really wish to. They can't keep it up for very long but it can be done.
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goodmorning! I have been busy in RL lately but have read every single post by you wonderful people. THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATES.
If I were on the jury I would find her guilty. No insanity for my vote. Based on the notes, the calendar, and a bunch more she clearly planned this. I was surprised that they didn't stress the one note where she mentioned that C would maybe go to heaven! (vs herself and her son for sure going to heaven).
This woman was MI but she was also very angry imhoo and planned this out.
That being said the entire thing is just so tragic. :-(
I'm stuck on a sentence from yesterday.. 'Were it not for her mental illness, this would not have happened."
I am one of the ones who have always believed mothers murder their children for the same reasons that fathers do. Although that is a minority opinion held. Mothers tend to be given excuses when the father is not.
I believe she killed her children because deep down she had no attachment or love for them. They had become 'mouthy' burdens she didn't want to carry. She felt they loved their father more than they loved her. She also wanted to hurt Parker in the worst way possible..........and did.
Really the vast majority of women that murder their children aren't MI. Only 2-4% of the time are they mentally insane. Of course that defense isn't even used if the murderer happens to be the father.
It is a myth that has long been told that a mother must be insane to kill her own children when that absolutely isn't the case.
IMO
BBM. There's something that bothers me...about the sole female expert to testify being the most adamantly insisting *JS was sane.* Is she judging JS more harshly than the male docs? (Or are they going "soft" on JS because she's a woman?)
JS requested Dr. Stein to be her psychiatrist, (she doesn't realize that would be impossible?! Is that a delusion?)
Maybe JS opened up more to Dr. Stein because she's female, a possible explanation for the tears during testimony. The doc used the female connection to get more from JS (and then turned on her.)
IMO the fantasy/plan to murder her children and commit suicide was forming in JS's mind for years prior to the ultimate outcome. I believe that those thoughts fueled her addiction, her MI and her deteriorating relationships. JS let herself go because the effort required to keep her head above water was too great. I do believe that she was insane, (maybe not in the legal sense.) I think she let herself "go there." Sadly, it's too late to go back.
There's something bothering me as well. I can't put my finger on anything exact though. It's a few things that are throwing me off. I am in NO way saying she's innocent nor am I blaming PS...I do believe he thought he was doing the right things to help her. I just can't help but feel that there's much more to this family dynamic and their marriage that we aren't hearing. I do feel that Parker leaving for Qatar created the perfect storm. It had obviously been brewing since her car accident and continued to brew until he left. I don't believe she was completely sane when committing the murders. She was in the midst of a psychotic break, her thoughts of wrong vs right were skewed. I just don't know how to feel here. She's very ill and has been for quite some time. Leaving her alone with the children and all of life's hassles when she had just spent weeks in bed in a depressed state wasn't a call I would've made. Jmo here. Like I said, this one has me wondering.
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NG-Insanity unless the prosecutor is powerful enough in closing to convince me otherwise.
Don't throw stuff at me, please.