Recent content by realanastasia

This is an excellent retrospective essay, but the quote from Romy where she describes Nick as her “best friend” is absolutely gutting, thinking about the horrific images and emotional trauma she will likely always carry with her, thanks to the actions of that man.

If I understand the timeline correctly, the confrontation occurred at the O’Brien party on Saturday night with the Reiners departing after/as a result of Nick R. making a scene. I imagine upon returning home, one or both parties might’ve opted to “cool off” alone in their home rather than...

NOT trying to make this political AT ALL, but along these lines, might she have seen someone she feared was an ICE agent and unthinkingly fled to the first place she could hide, not realizing that it (maybe) didn’t have an internal mechanism for unlocking the freezer door?

I am curious to know about the timing of the murders—I am guessing that it occurred in the early AM hours of Sunday following the public incident at Conan O’Brien’s party. Certainly, it’d be easiest to attack and kill two individuals with a bladed object while they were sleeping in bed, as...

Oh, damn it. I can’t say why, but to me this just makes it a thousand times worse. If the son alleged to have murdered RR and his wife is in his early to mid-20s, I wonder if perhaps the incident was precipitated by the types of mental illnesses that often present themselves in young men of this...

Oh no, how awful. Not that it won’t be tragic if it’s some sort of random homicide/home invasion/robbery-turned-deadly, but I truly hope this isn’t a parricide.

Oof, she may not have been an ideal guardian for a troubled kid; “Jana Williams had been on probation stemming from an arrest for possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia in April, and her rap sheet includes a handful of traffic, theft and drug charges from October, 2023.”...

I may be wrong, but I thought the tampering with of medical equipment occurred after the poor child had been admitted to the hospital to recover from the life-threatening injuries he suffered, essentially, at the hands of (at least, by the efforts of) his so-called “father.”

“The turning of a locked doorknob”? Doorknobs that are locked usually don’t turn, but maybe she meant she heard a doorknob rattling? Even still, I am confused because the PCA refers to the front door having a deadbolt and handle (thinking this is a lever-style handle). Maybe the interior side...

I wondered if perhaps his wife speaks English with an strong accent (her name and his career with the US Navy make me wonder if she might be Japanese)—she handed the phone to him to give the 911 dispatcher the address, which surely she knew herself, having lived there for four years.

My jaw dropped reading his account. So he’s obviously worried about home security (he alludes to having, on previous occasions, envisioned a home invasion scenario and thus has established with his wife the area they will use as their “safe room” if the scenario comes to pass), but I wonder if...

I am curious—do you hope he appeals because you think this isn’t the right sentence for the crime? I can imagine (based on nothing specific to this case) that he may have had longstanding psychological issues compounded by his time at the orphanage and subsequent “culture shock” of being...

This case reminds me of the saying “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Swap out a handgun for the hammer, and add a pre-existing distrust of strangers, and perhaps every person who tries to open your door looks like an intruder with nefarious intentions. Note also...

For the benefit of folks who have had trouble viewing the large file of documents related to Parker's death/CS's arrest, I am posting here a much smaller .pdf file that only contains the two statements given to law enforcement by Cynthia King (ES' mother/CS' mother-in-law) and Juan Velasquez...

Yes, see screenshot of P. 26 from the large file. The affiant did not observe a crib or "appropriate sized bed" for Parker.