This has to be the funniest thing I have read on here in weeks! WA knew everything, she is a horrible actress. She literally checks all the boxes of a "GUILTY" person during the entire interview. She doesn't shed a single real tear. I disagree 100%!
Per her own mother, she is a great actress! Back eight years ago, I thought she was distraught, too.
I was a theatre major and was always so jealous of the actors who could cry on cue. And there are people who can do it. Not a lot, but the ones that can, do it like flipping a light switch. I think Wendi is just one such person. In many ways, she reminds of my theatre major friends. Her Latex Husband podcast is very theatrical. So, while I too thought she seemed completely surprised when I first heard the Over My Dead Body podcast, I now think she was pulling off the performance of her life and crying on cue. It was not coincidence that she drove down Trescot that day. She went that way to see if the deed had been done. She went to the liquor store clear on the other side of town to get the receipt to document her alibi and to check out what was going on because she knew that was the day. If I was on a jury and heard these things, it would really make my ears prick up.
Me too. But having watched her twice now in court and viewing the totality of the evidence so far, and hearing Charlie complain about her entitlement to their mother (who at least appears to agree but she's also likely a "great actress"), I have landed firmly in the "Wendi was entirely apprised of what was going to--and did--happen and had prepared for her performance in the police station for months. She over thought some things and fancied herself smarter than the interrogators imo, but she was very prepared for her performance. None of it rings true to me, at all. Two things--why did she not inquire about her kids safety immediately, but uses that as the excuse for changing their names? It's like she thinks about and decides to be "afraid" a year later, but skipped over the maternal instinct to be afraid when you see crime scene tape on the street where they slept the night before. Now I've forgotten my second thing but it was a good one and I'll come back once I remember it.
It was reported that hearings were all running late right now. That's all I got.
If it was possible to get an ID from the gravely wounded Dan Markel, LE would have been all over that before a rabbi showed up. LE is not leaving that to a religious leader. JMO.
There are so many wiretaps and calls that are public and were generally used in the first trial but were not brought in for the re-trial. I believe that some of this was prosecutorial discretion but most of it was Judge Wheeler. He drew some very narrow lines around the types of DA + CA calls that could be used as evidence (and therefore exceptions to the hearsay rule).
I wish I could like this post more than once. Totally agree. There is precisely a zero percent chance that Donna and Charlie planned and executed this murder without Wendi's full support and approval. There is a pattern of behavior from Donna's emails where Donna is suggesting all kinds of crazy and insane things to Wendi on how to manage the divorce situation (the $1M bribe, Hitler Youth costumes, conversion to catholicism). Not a single one of these suggestions were adopted because Wendi was the final decision-maker.Me too. But having watched her twice now in court and viewing the totality of the evidence so far, and hearing Charlie complain about her entitlement to their mother (who at least appears to agree but she's also likely a "great actress"), I have landed firmly in the "Wendi was entirely apprised of what was going to--and did--happen and had prepared for her performance in the police station for months. She over thought some things and fancied herself smarter than the interrogators imo, but she was very prepared for her performance. None of it rings true to me, at all. Two things--why did she not inquire about her kids safety immediately, but uses that as the excuse for changing their names? It's like she thinks about and decides to be "afraid" a year later, but skipped over the maternal instinct to be afraid when you see crime scene tape on the street where they slept the night before. Now I've forgotten my second thing but it was a good one and I'll come back once I remember it.
Ok, I remembered it. Given the enmeshment of this family, how can anyone reconcile the notion that Donna and Charlie would conspire and execute the MURDER of the FATHER of Wendi's children without ever asking her to weigh in on it? I do think she weighed in as well on that "kosher-style" nonsense at their wedding. This family works as a unit to get what they want for all involved. I don't see them breaking rank for MURDER.
No, the pattern is one where DA proposes increasingly insane solutions and Wendi keeps shooting them down. The pattern is one of DA getting increasingly agitated with WA’s failure to act, escalate and institute DA’s stupid ideas. So, DA just cut ineffective WA out and decided to get it handled.
I think it’s maybe just a function of the cases being assigned to the same judge? Usually a judge in criminal court will have certain time slots each week to hold criminal hearing matters such as pretrial hearings and sentencings, and other times blocked off for jury trials, etc.
It’s hard to think they would undertake this extreme measure without her knowing, I always get stuck on the fact that the hit men were following DM around while he had the kids! What if one of the kids had woke up that morning with a tummy bug and stayed home from preschool, for instance. In the police interview video WA says she and DM were in contact that morning as they needed to discuss their eldest child’s school enrollment for the fall. DM left her a voicemail that he would talk to her after he went to the gym. I have to think if she knew, that she needed confirmation the kids were dropped off at preschool that morning. And the whole drive by near Trescott is hugely weird. In the police interview she mentions that to the detective right off the bat almost. She says she drives by the house as a way of dealing with her divorce. In trial testimony though she did not use that explanation, she just explained it as a reasonable shortcut to her liquor store destination.
Wendi was so infuriated by her mother and brother going behind her back to murder Dan Markel that she moved to Miami 3 days after the murder - the day after the funeral service and she refused to talk to police the day after his murder. How did she have time to pack a 3BR house with all her grief? She must've been extremely upset with Katie too, having spent a day at the beach with her smack-dab in the middle of the two different trips that Katie's assassins had taken up to Tallahassee to murder her ex-husband who she hated with every fibre of her being. And when she found out that her brother and mom were on wiretaps getting extorted by the same gangbangers that did in fact murder her husband, she didn't even want to listen because...well - that's the prosecution's job! In fact, she has no knowledge of the case and doesn't follow it AT ALL. Unless....of course, buried in 12 terabytes of data, she can find a single email from Ruth Markel trying to make sure her kids have childcare in the hypothetical event that every Adelson in Miami is arrested and Ruth still in Toronto so will need time to get down there to look after the kids. I guess thats the only evidence of the case she's following - the bits that she can use to punish the living Markel family members? Notice the aggression towards Dan Markel's family but no anger whatsoever with her own family. Except Rob. He's the worst cause he wanted to poke around and get some answers as to who might've killed Dan. Wendi is murdering sociopath.
I hope the State's Attorney's office is reading here because this looks like some closing argument material to me. For any of the three of those Adelson sociopaths.
