He's known all along that he's guilty so maybe it didn't come as much of a surprise. I think he realized he didn't have a chance after the prosecutor's closing argument. He looked defeated.
I think they're including his initial statement which was that he didn't know Mollie, didn't know anything about her disappearance, etc. MOO
Yeah, I actually kind of do. I feel like the defense's case was built entirely around it. Maybe the lawyers helped him fill in some holes, and probably warned him about the cracks in his story, but I have trouble believing that his legal team would contrive the masked men themselves. A better story would have put the third party in during the void in time where nobody knew what was going on - when the vehicle stopped right before her phone went off. Since nobody knows when or where she died, that might have been their only opening. Yes, that would have still made him guilty of kidnapping or whatnot, but preferable over murder one. I don't know...
And if he told them back in 2018 aren’t they expected to tell law enforcement, for the sake of public safety?
