Maybe she was growing monkshood, hemlock and deadly nightshade in the front garden. Maybe when it was ready she would have suddenly decided to make her beloved husband a lovely stirfry or stew. And I'm not joking.
Yep! It could have been castor beans. No one would be any the wiser, they're easy to harvest, and someone is in jail already for trying to kill off her fellow inmates at a VT long-term care facility (you gotta love it), so the possibility was out there.
IMO she tried out many scenarios before the shooting. IMO she'd been trying for years. Perhaps that's the reason she became a "writer" of romantic who-dunnits and hung out with her "writers" club.
There was: a bed and breakfast trip shortly before the murder; a mystery writers' cruise shortly before the murder; a major fire in the kitchen; the broken shower door; magically, a major water leak the night before the murder (though she might have made this up; she certainly didn't bother to mop it up herself, but said DB did the next morning).
NB couldn't try poison, since DB had a very sensitive, chef's, palate. She could maybe have tried wine, though. She had a story about wine, maybe? And, according to her, she never cooked, so she certainly couldn't have concocted something.
I'm sure we can think up more. And I'll bet they were all based on stock murder plots from other authors, e.g. Agatha Christie. They were all "cozies".
NB told prepared stories about details others might find suspicious. She'd tell them before the possibility anyone could form a suspicion, heading them off, as it were. She did this in her interview with LE.
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We still haven't been told what crimes she committed in prison. This was a detail in her bond hearing, when she was denied home release because of her "extremely high risk of fatal COVID". Note: she did not wear a mask when her court case began. She was the only unmasked person in the court, and masking was required. KGW YT followers mentioned the hypocrisy, and voilà, she came out masked after the next break and going forward.
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I'm fascinated with how insufferable this woman is (plus her whole life is a lie, sneers every other moment), do-nothing, big spender, consummate narcissist, bigot, all charade, no real, and how people put up with her for years.
I'm hoping in the course of time, she's assigned to the prison kitchen and required to keep the prison chickens. Grubby showers, too, no tub. 25 years of that.
When she gets out (if she survives that long) she'll only be entitled to her own SS (not Dan's, which she got because he was over 62 when he died), which was paltry. IIRC in OR, there's no Medicaid for non-disabled singles, she'd have serious trouble getting housing because of her record, won't be able to work because she'll be too old....She'd have had financial trouble with all of this if DB had sent her packing (especially before they were married, and she wasn't on the house deed; he paid everything for the house, and he might have brought the equity into the relationship, so no even split; their effects would have had zero value in a sale; and there was a high cost to prepare the house for sale, so she wouldn't have got a whole lot of anything if she got half.).
NB is not entitled to SS while she's in prison, so no chance to accumulate much savings.
Haha...I doubt NB even worked for 10 years and paid into SS. She notoriously didn't pay SS taxes for her employees.
This gets better... It seems she has to pay Medicare Part B while she's in prison, or else she'll incur penalties when out of prison, and maybe have to pay retroactively for all that time... That's how I read it. This would likely use up her ENTIRE prison pay check.
Here's the castor beans case:
A resident of a Vermont retirement community poisoned her neighbors by putting the toxin ricin that she had made in her kitchen into their food over several weeks, the FBI said Saturday. Betty Mill…
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