JT_Watchman
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I commend those of you who had the fortitude to stomach Wendi Adelson's entire interrogation. I just can't take much of her. But I was relistening to the Over My Dead Body podcast (which is really so good), and they play snippets of it. I was struck this time with just how rehearsed she sounds while dealing with the "news" of Dan's shooting. And when she calls her mother, narrating herself "Ok, here goes, This is the worst day of my life." It just all comes off so performative to me. I've been in that kind of moment, multiple times having to deliver terrible news involving the murder of my sister, my grandmother's death to my Dad, her son, my Dad's death to relatives. It just doesn't ring true to me having lived it (as I'm sure many of you have too). It's like she's rehearsed this and is internally going "and.....roll 'em". So focused on how she's being perceived vs. just being in the moment of this tragedy. Watching (and listening) to her skeeves me as much as Jodi Arias did.
She's an interesting case of pure self-absorbed narcissism and getting away with murder. Truly a dangerous human being. We all know it. But, like Willie Meggs used to say, "What we believe doesn't count. Evidence is what counts." (loosely quoted) I know he wasn't everyone's favorite. But to me, that's what made him an excellent State Attorney: he knew how to remove his feelings and emotions from a case and approach it objectively.
Wendi has done a great job of keeping herself insulated from any evidentiary culpability in this case. She probably didn't count on the living hell that the aftermath has turned out to be. Namely, people knowing in their heart that she is guilty and treating her accordingly and all the chatter and speculation that comes with that.
But I believe firmly in Jesus' words at Luke 12:2: "There is nothing carefully concealed that will not be revealed, and nothing secret that will not become known."