Particularly if the woman - whether she was raped or not - chose to see the rapist again a few days later and brought a weapon with her. And possibly made up an alibi to cover up the visit. To my untrained, non-legal mind, it’s hard to believe someone did all that in a panic. That’s planning even if the killing was not directly intended.
Just based on what’s presented here, it sounds like Griffin really believed he had been sexually assaulted. I don’t know what else they could have been arguing about that would incite him to stab the dude 22 times - especially, if as Argent Towers says, this guy is not typically violent. What I don’t believe is that it was a random act of homophobia. Throw in the fact that he might be a traumatized soldier and I could see him viewing the professor as a real threat. I really think the girlfriend’s testimony would clear up a lot of questions.
That business aside, he committed murder. Maybe he brought the knife along for protection because he genuinely felt threatened by the guy, or maybe it was premeditated. But he killed someone. It’s tragic but he’s going to have to pay the consequences for that.
You keep referring to your high school memories of Griffin, which would have been 8-10 years ago. Is that the last time you saw him regularly? Because people can change a lot in ten years. Some don’t, but a lot do.
I’ve read that such multiple stabbing is pretty common when knives are used at all. Either the person is really enraged, or it’s a panic reaction; the stabbed person doesn’t usually just fall over, they writhe and scream and flail and the stabber keeps stabbing again and again to “just make it stop!”
Could be some primal “In for a penny in for a pound” urge.
If there were a thread about such a case on here, people would probably be questioning the woman’s claim before the end of the first page.
I’m sorry about your old friend, but people doubt female rape victims all the time too.
Argent, I feel for you, I really do. My husband’s colleague was recently murdered by her long-term boyfriend in some kind of substance-induced state of psychosis. By all accounts they were both wonderful people and had an extremely close relationship. The mother of the killer reported that she felt like she’d lost a daughter and a son - she is the one who discovered the body. We felt terrible for everyone in that situation, up to and including the man who beat her to death.
Feeling that this is also a tragedy for your former friend is normal. And the reality is you may never actually get to know what happened. I can see how you would feel a need to work it out here, though.
he was male:D
on a different note, it’s not hard for me to imagine two days of teasing from homophobic girlfriend driving the masculine marine into a rage where he felt he had to do something to restore his masculinity.
It’s one thing to be “hey - what they do to each other I don’t give a damn” and another thing entirely to be ok with taking it up the butt (just to be crude about it)
And yeah, this is not a fair projection from the information I have - I am just hypothesising…
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