Hallo All,
Yes Kimster...I was thinking about the "...what did they do wrong?" comment by one of the prospective jurors. Adults, I believe, think of one another as being on some type of equal level (maybe they were fighting, i.e. what do we really know about their relationship, "takes two to tango" type of excuse for the inexcuseable), but... There is no doubt whatsoever that children are "in our care" and to be "protected" by we adults. So, while there is a mentality, I think, about adults "tussling" and maybe some people stretch to believe that there could be reason (gads) -- just what the heck kinda excuse would a man have to murder two sleeping children, not one, but two. Were they in trouble at school daily and driving their parent to a brink? Was the parent struggling to feed them and depressed. Did the kids misbehave on a daily basis, or were they ill and straining the heartstrings and time of a parent? There are frustrations that are no reason to kill a child, yet a frustrated parent can do wrong as a result. But two children? Two sleeping, entirely vulnerable children?
None of those frustratons apply here...there is no excuse to even consider outside of a man who wanted a chick and another life and that is no excuse. So, the guy plots, lies up a storm through the plotted letters, hangs out with his chick, dreams up his new life (one that he deludes himself that he will have when he erases his old one), then mercilessly and cowardly snuffs out the life of two sleeping children AND their mother.
Chris was/is such a coward; you can almost bet he killed the mother first, the one who would fiercely defend her children. He didn't want any difficulty in snuffing the children, you can just feel it in the way he did things. He just went off into his idiotic space world and started erasing the lives that were in the way of his lust for sex and money. Had to be money too, because he could have supported both families, he could have left Sheri and the boys and sent alimony and child support. That wouldn't work for him, he wanted that support money to entertain his girl and himself, you can count on it.
IF there is any truth to the so-called "he would lose his job if he divorced" thing, so big deal. IF you are valuable and no coward, go get a job elsewhere if that is the case, take your chick, abandon your wife and kids but do your duty with support.
Chris lusted for chick and money and there is no way around it. He didn't want his job "because he liked" working for JM, he wanted it because it was easy money for someone who really had nothing going for them, a loser. IF he "liked working for her," he would never have used her facilities to set up his lies, his work computer and bandwidth to create those letters, make this a plot around someone who had something against her, tying her name into this in any way at all... How he did what he did told me that he loathed JM and the whole ministry thing, he just wanted the big bucks. He loathed the "rules," so he had no respect for the rule maker. He broke the rules by fooling around with his chick while on company paid trips -- nah, he didn't like his job and want to keep it for any other reason but the big bucks. In effect, he was stealing from that ministry by his actions. Break the rules, yet keep the job...foul! Everything about Chris was a foul and foul -- a totally dishonorable self-centered man. The only thing right and good about him were his wife and children.
All the above to say, I understand that which surrounds the thoughts of that prospective juror, "Why murder children? What did they do wrong?" I mean, surely you don't just murder for the sake of murdering? Someone had to have done you wrong to deserve being murdered, right? (hypothetical to toss out thoughts of some)
So it looks like 16 jurors submitted answers, 6 were dismissed "for cause." More will be gone through, Nick reports,
"The prosecution and defense each has 14 peremptory challenges, the legal term for the right to reject a jury candidate without explanation. They used none so far."
Evidently Chris is locking eyes with some of the prospective jurors... Now, for those jurors who locked eyes with Chris and were dismissed, I bet they almost burned their skin off when they got home -- trying to wash off the evil they brushed against in that court room. No doubt, some of those who aren't even picked might need to talk to a counselor after being in the presence of Chris.
MOO