Identified! GA - Cherokee Co, Remains in Woods Behind Home on Purcell Ln, July 2018 - Gary Farris *wife arrested

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This case became the story of 1 debit card with 5 copies, 4 (?) phones and 2 diaphragms. Who, in the intelligent universe, would claim they were keeping a diaphragm in their purse for a friend? Even after the detective reminded her they'd test it for DNA, and have their answer in a moment. Several times! She kept right on with her lie. No, she wasn't having an affair. This was, like, the craziest lie I've ever heard in an interrogation. And she had another diaphragm in the glove box of her car? That's where I keep my first aid kit. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

Call me ageist, but old enough to know that Melody might have been too advanced in years to need a diaphragm? Maybe she used one as a vanity thing? A souvenir? That would be a new one on me, but you never know with some of these criminal cases.
Maybe she didn't trust ol' Rusty. STDs??????
 
How was her son Scott suspicious? And he had an alibi! His presence was accounted for miles away. He had the misfortune to locate his Dad's body on the burn pile, but Melody manipulated him to go there. She was always making him run around. She also manipulated him to get him to be on the property as close to the time of the murder as she could by calling him and telling him the horses were out (they weren't).

As for Chris, he wasn't around, either.

Neither brother had ANY motive. All the money was going to Melody. No more Gary=no more money for the kids.

Gary's blood was on the Kubota. There were also signs of blood being cleaned up at the top of the stairs. A drop or two escaped the mop. IMO Melody grazed Gary with the first bullet and he fled outside. She shot him square on outside.

Re: the question about Scott being suspicious; the state did not do enough to prove their facts.

Unfortunately there were more than just a few important points that needed to be made to the jury loud and clearly.

I’m unsure at this point if she will be prosecuted.
 
How was her son Scott suspicious? And he had an alibi! His presence was accounted for miles away. He had the misfortune to locate his Dad's body on the burn pile, but Melody manipulated him to go there. She was always making him run around. She also manipulated him to get him to be on the property as close to the time of the murder as she could by calling him and telling him the horses were out (they weren't).

As for Chris, he wasn't around, either.

Neither brother had ANY motive. All the money was going to Melody. No more Gary=no more money for the kids.

Gary's blood was on the Kubota. There were also signs of blood being cleaned up at the top of the stairs. A drop or two escaped the mop. IMO Melody grazed Gary with the first bullet and he fled outside. She shot him square on outside.
I'm surprised she didn't see and clean up the blood on wood floor of the basement. If I had to talk to that woman on the phone all the time my ears would bleed. Amazing how much she talked to everyone all the time. Everyone worked but her. That would drive me nuts.
 
Prosecution was better on rebuttal but I still would've preferred the guy overall. And, while the airing of all the dirty family laundry sure wasn't pretty... it was necessary to see the whole picture of this case. I don't think Melody would have ever been a friend of mine.

jmo
 
I find Scott's behaviour once he found his dad to be suspicious. He immediately went looking for the "missing" gun and nobody knew at that point there was even a bullet involved! GF had been having "spells" and most likely assumption at that point would have been he fell into the fire during one of his spells.

I do not find Chris suspicious, don't think I said I did but wanted to be clear.

If no Gary, no money for the kids, all going to Mom....why not set Mom up to look guilty and take the fall? Then the estate should be divided between the kids?

I like that theory about her first shot being a graze and he ran outside and she shot him again! Just makes me wonder if the other bullet left his body and if it hit his heart or brain wouldn't they have known that? Or was he burned too badly? I did not hear the medical examiner.
Another bullet was found in the basement where Gary lived.

Scott had seen a pistol in that area that he'd never seen before. He went back to check. That was the one that was Martha Jane's. It was in a black leather holster. It was the only one that could shoot that caliber. Scott can identify guns since he was a hunter and a veteran, and he couldn't find it after the murder. Jenna also testified she saw it. It was downstairs in the basement. Scott had an alibi, charted out by LE multiple ways, including with a friend and his electronic devices and his call from Melody.

Everyone was suspicious of Melody, as far as I can make out.

The gun in the holster proved key: it was Martha Jane's.

Gary had been having spells, but he told his assistant he thought Melody was poisoning him. That actually seems the most likely, since the docs couldn't find anything wrong with him. Ever.
 
I was surprised that the female..don't know her name..did the closing but thought she did an excellent job!! I wonder if MWF in her deluded state thinks she will be found not guilty?? and I would love to know when she and RB were no longer an item.
I was surprised, too. She even did the rebuttal as well.

IMO Melody and Rusty are still an item. Did someone say something about them not seeing each other? If either Melody or Rusty said so, I wouldn't believe them.
 
The majority of parents (I think) would go to prison if it came down to this to save their children.

I’m reminded of that when I see her without any emotion. She isn’t distraught about her own child being accused. I find that very incriminating.
 
Late to following this case so I have been watching videos trying to catch up. Wish I had started earlier.I can see why MF has been charged but if she did it I don't see how she could have moved the body to the burn pile. If it was her, I'm guessing someone helped her and I don't believe it was RB. JMO
 
The pros may have mentioned the no will thing, but we definitely know it was probated. It came up earlier in the trial, but it also came up with Amanda. She wanted to claim that there were a lot of shenanigans in the disbursement of the estate, when in fact, it was handled by the court. Pros caught her in that little twist of the truth.

IIRC the house was foreclosed on within a year of the murder. At that point, all the stuff was removed. Melody was in jail, and told Amanda what she should grab for her. FWIW this included a gun.

If there’s no will, an estate gets probated.

Yes, it does seem nuts that an attorney wouldn’t have a will. It also means he had no living trust to protect Melody.
A will doesn’t prevent probate. Only a Trust does.
 
Defense brought up GF's insurance policies which listed MF as beneficiary. Also, as I had been wondering, did she even know about those insurance policies? Think the prosecutor needs to address this if money was the motive.
Someone may have already answered but the State first introduced the insurance payout, 401K payout, partner profit sharing payout, etc and had someone from Gary's law firm as a witness. I also believe that he testified that Melody called them asking about the total payout.
 
Late to following this case so I have been watching videos trying to catch up. Wish I had started earlier.I can see why MF has been charged but if she did it I don't see how she could have moved the body to the burn pile. If it was her, I'm guessing someone helped her and I don't believe it was RB. JMO
IMO the first shot was in the house, and grazed Gary. He ran out of the house trying to get to the neighbors, whose house is just beyond the burn pile. She shot her final shot in that area, got the Kubota, and shoved him in. There’s a path between where the Kubota is stored and the burn pit.
There was blood on the Kubota.
 
Someone may have already answered but the State first introduced the insurance payout, 401K payout, partner profit sharing payout, etc and had someone from Gary's law firm as a witness. I also believe that he testified that Melody called them asking about the total payout.
Correct. The amount is $4M +.
 
The majority of parents (I think) would go to prison if it came down to this to save their children.

I’m reminded of that when I see her without any emotion. She isn’t distraught about her own child being accused. I find that very incriminating.
She was deliberately accusing her son from the get-go. IMO she set Scott up to be there while the bonfire was on (calling him and telling him the horses were out, though they weren’t), and she set Scott up to find the remains. She said there was a goat burned on the fire. They had never burned goats on the fire before.
 
I'm surprised she didn't see and clean up the blood on wood floor of the basement. If I had to talk to that woman on the phone all the time my ears would bleed. Amazing how much she talked to everyone all the time. Everyone worked but her. That would drive me nuts.
There were only droplets AFAIK. She had cleaned up blood at the top of the stairs. IMO the first bullet only grazed Gary, so there were only droplets in the house. Easy to miss.

Yes, she’s incessant. I feel so sorry for the older three. They’ve been carped at and manipulated their entire lives. It’s no wonder the two sons are adrift.
 
She was deliberately accusing her son from the get-go. IMO she set Scott up to be there while the bonfire was on (calling him and telling him the horses were out, though they weren’t), and she set Scott up to find the remains. She said there was a goat burned on the fire. They had never burned goats on the fire before.

Back on the thread it was mentioned that SF had erased some of the video of the house. Just wondering what you might know about that since you have been following this case much more than I have. TYIA
 

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