ILurkThereforeIAm

I was thinking Not Guilty until I saw this post:

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Turtleboy saying all jurors were looking with intent at AJ except for Juror 6.

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This makes me worry. If this is accurate and it means something, then it may be another hung jury.

Not sure if it's better, but it's different mainly because they interview his family and best friend. And the interviews are in their house. They show the basement and everything. Some of it's repetitive, but overall I think it's worth the watch.

ETA: This one creeped me out more than the other doc. Not sure if it was all the closeups they did of his mug shot or the details from his family about all the vacations they went on when he stayed home because "he had to work." And then of course, all the murders line up with times his family was out of town. Then when they were in the basement and you see the door and the size of the space.....very real and creepy.

I binged all 3 episodes last night. The main difference between this doc and the others is that they interviewed his wife, daughter, and step-son in this one.

The wife is delusional. Her attorney said she may have some sort of stockholm syndrome. That's putting it nicely. She seems cold and naive, but she's from Iceland so some of that may be cultural.

I believe the step-son is developmentally disabled.

His daughter is who I feel the worst for. She is really struggling throughout the 3 episodes and you can see her start to realize that her dad is a serial killer. But she's in a house and familial bubble with a disabled brother and delusional mother....I hope she's able to get out on her own, get some therapy, and start over.

I have conflicting feelings about all of this. There is a ton of bloat within FEMA. FEMA creates red tape that in turn justifies its own employment and administration. However, I believe that there is some version of the agency that needs to exist and continue to support states in pre-disaster mitigation efforts and again during and after emergencies.

FEMA has made great improvements since Katrina. The Individual Assistance program is leaps and bounds better and more secure than it was right after Katrina. It would be stupid to just do away with that framework. States don't have the capacity to deploy all of the resources for mass disasters, they will need some help from the feds. If not FEMA, then which agency is going to handle that?

My mom initiated 3 of her 4 divorces. The 75% sounds accurate to me.

I watching it live and I have no idea what just happened. Can anyone explain? She dismissed the jury and the witness, then said "work it out" to the lawyers.

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Or if I crossed paths with one.

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I think I did. And I think I’ve told this story on here before.

Lived in a house with 2 other girls off of Claycut and Acadian in early 2000s. I was outside alone sweeping the front porch and I look up and there’s a guy standing about 15 feet away from me looking at me with his hands on his hips. He tells me he’s with the water company and he’s checking our meter. He asks if there’s an old lady who lives at our house and I say no. He says something like “oh, I guess she moved” and walks away. I see him a few minutes later in this old red car driving away with the window down smoking a cig. (We lived in sort of a cul de sac.)

I call the water company and they told me no one should have been out at our house that day. Much less in a red car with no uniform on.

So I call the serial killer tip line and leave a message. They call me back and I give a description of the guy, white, brownish hair, mustache, glasses. They eventually arrest DTL, so obviously it wasn’t him.

Some time later, I see a picture on the news of Sean Vincent Gillis and I freak out and tell my roommates, “that’s him! that’s the guy who said he was with the water company!” Not that it mattered at that point, but I did call the police and tell them the story again.

I remember what he looked like so well because he reminded me of a guy who was on an episode of Designing Women, he played Julia and Suzanne’s comedian brother, Clayton. I didn’t know his name then, but IMDb tells me it’s Lewis Grizzard. So his appearance was stuck in my brain. I loved Designing Women and would watch reruns over and over.

Lewis Grizzard:


Sean Vincent Gilllis:

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Brennan is back to his ways on cross.

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When this trial is over and the jurors start doing interviews, they're all going to talk about how unlikeable Brennan is.

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Plow driver on the stand this morning.

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He seems like a nice guy, and he's nervous. He's a heavy equipment operator, FFS, and not a multi-degreed specialist paid to testify in trials. Hank is being an a-hole to him and I would imagine that it won't play well with the jury.

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The judge needs to be disbarred. What a count.

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I'll allow it.