Howdy Ev'body,
Thanks for sharing your comments and thoughts, I've appreciated reading them...
A few thoughts/musings of my own here...
Tara testified they texted "constantly." They also noted that she and Chris texted the evening of the murders (or within hours before, if you figure the murders didn't occur at 11PM, but maybe 3AM). So...she repeated "constantly" a lot... Now then, is texting something LE can read after the fact, well people get charged for texting on their phones rights, so they must be able to tell whether texting activity is going on?
LE did a good job of checking things out, have we not heard a few things that are coming still? Maybe like there was constant texting until 11PM or X o'clock AM, then there was a 40 minute dead silence from texting (15 minutes to take the victims' lives, 15 minutes to decorate the house with spray paint, 10 minutes to play with himself in the shower), and then there was more constant texting until 5:42AM?
About the black eye (or is it eyes), Sheri didn't have a battered face when they went for snow cones (or was it an ice cream)? Do they have a witness account of seeing them there at the place they got the treat? Dark sunglasses? If no battered face or sunglasses, then that definitely happened after the fact.
What time was Chris texting Tara that night? Or did that happen when he supposedly went to the gym? What is the timeline on the dinner, ice creams, his gym the night before, any other texting or phone calls to Tara that night? Where is the period of dead silence? Did Sheri catch him playing with himself in the basement while on the phone, did they get into a fight, she went to pack the car and he came against her then? If so, where were the boys?
The neighbor's camera, did it catch when they left for snow cones, when they came home, when Chris left to go to the gym that night and then came home?
Has the jury been shown a timeline on comings and goings, and stopping and startings of texts and phone calls, or is that coming yet -- once they get a bunch more facts out there? Was Sheri's phone found, or were calls tracked?
The loading of Sheri's car, was that caught on video? I can't open the hatch of my car with the garage door shut, did Sheri's car have a hatch that would have required the garage door to be open when loading? If so, was the loading of the car ever caught on film -- did it happen that night?
And about Tara, I might guess that there was a matter of someone saying something to affect how she testified, i.e. you wouldn't want to be arrested as accessory would you? (there might be PLENTY of reason to go that direction). Maybe you could just show up in a "scarlet" low cut blouse with "black patent 4 inch open toed heels" (street walker kinda look eh?), we'll give you the promise ring we've been keeping in custody for you -- you could slip that on your finger for a bit, and you could act kinda dumb when we ask if you think you had sex with Chris when you went to Arizona to be with him (Um, huh huh, let me think, uh huh...dunno, well maybe, probably, huh huh.) That all might work well to help get Chris convicted.
On the other hand, I've wondered if the scarlet blouse (good grief! or was it hot pink) and trotting shoes were to make good pictures for the Enquirer (or to sell), after all if your life is ruined by this, some could think that they might as well juice up the pictures so that the magazine's sell real well and then the mags pursue them for some real big bucks for a story later?
Could Tara really really really have been so senseless, uncoached by reasonable people with her best interest in mind, as to have thought dressing as she did was an okay or appropriate thing for a murder trial? The murders of two little children? Of a high school friend? I can only imagine there was an ulterior motive for the way she dressed (as mentioned above.)
As per Disneyland, I don't think Tara wanted to be face to face with Sheri if they went to visit her in Florida while there. Maybe she knew she couldn't hide what was going on, or felt too guilty for that kind of thing face to face, or maybe she was just plain ticked that Chris would force Sheri and her to see one another by bringing them to Florida. Maybe she wanted Chris to tell Sheri that he and Tara were a thing and Chris didn't want to do that yet. Maybe she was just very ticked that he might have fun with his family. Seems obvious that she wanted his fidelity, he was sleeping with her, not sleeping with Sheri -- a hotel room in Florida would put them in bed together?
The bits that the defense was throwing, like that a brother made phone calls about Sheri's life insurance... I'm glad someone straightened it out that it was the brother and his ex-wife who sold it to them for Sheri.
Evidently Tara hasn't spoken to Chris since May 5th... Was she told she better not, or did she choose not to? So she hasn't spoken, did she write him or get messages to him through someone else? Or is she furious with him for being such an idiot? She had a 100K sugar daddy on the line and he had to screw it all up by murdering his family, he ruined her life.
Yes, and I wonder about the difference between a "soft look" at Chris and just a "yes, that's him over there" look.
