Me neither but it’s a sick story.
Lots of sickos out there. Humanity sure can suck sometimes.
The Downs story was featured in a best-seller by Ann Rule and later made into a TV movie.
More than anyone else, Downs may be responsible for the meme of the Bushy-Haired Stranger.
The Bushy-Haired Stranger —
She must’ve copied it from this guy, years before, who by some accounts inspired The Fugitive: Sam Sheppard - Wikipedia
More sickos. Although DNA evidence exonerated him, it may have been the handyman who did it and was the sicko.
Waiting for the judge.
Prosecutors ask for 15 years.
Defence asks for 18 months home arrest.
Is there a live link?
My prediction: 4 years.
I haven’t found one, but I’ve been following tweets from this reporter at the trial.
https://twitter.com/scottbudman
Will we get the verdict before Twitter crashes? 
8 years.
I should have looked at the guidelines before I put my number out there. I really have no idea. But what the hell, I’ll keep my number.
From the on-site reporter: “The judge says evidence shows Elizabeth Holmes was leader of the company, but not necessarily the leader of the criminal acts.”
That suggests she’s not getting the full sentence requested by prosecutors…
Ruling on the money: judge puts investor losses at $384M, less than the $804M the prosecution asked for. This is pertinent to the restitution she might have to pay.
ETA: now the judge has said the “reasonable loss” is $121M, and he will set a date in the future to determine what Holmes must pay.
“It was that other girl…the one with the weirdly deep voice who always wore black turtlenecks.”
Holmes is going to end up doing at most two years in a minimum security facility and another couple of years on “house arrest” doing some kind of vaguely charitable restitution penance. Five years from now, she’ll form a new company claiming to diagnosis your emotional problems from urinalysis and people will be throwing $10M checks at her like confetti. So it goes.
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Hah! 
But seriously, the judge name-checked Sunny Bulwani in his comment about her not leading the crime. Bulwani must be sweating in advance of his sentencing next month.
Do these final statements ever actually change the judge’s decision or is it all just theater?
It can. Slightly. Depends on the judge, and the facts
It sounds like Alex Schultz (father of ex-Theranos employee Tyler and son of investor George) is giving some intense testimony. Select quotes:
Elizabeth Holmes “hired a private investigator to follow my son.”
“My son slept with a knife, because he was afraid of being killed.”The Theranos experience “was grueling. I felt like my family home was desecrated.”
Alex Shultz, voice shaking, recalls Theranos lawyers coming into his house “without Tyler having any way to represent himself.”
“There’s a lot of talk about Sunny and Elizabeth. From my family’s perspective, Elizabeth is their Sunny Balwani. She took advantage of my family.”
Tyler Shultz reported that Holmes directly gaslighted him after he reported with that results were tampered with. His parents had to take out a second mortgage on their house to fund his legal expenses after lawyers representing Theranos attacked his credibility and accused him of violating his non-disclosure agreement. Private investigators did investigate and follow both Shultz and Erika Cheung (another Theranos employee who was also interviewed by John Carreyrou and who briefly left the country because of fear of legal reprisal). There are, of course, hundreds of employees whose investment of time and reputation was materially harmed by the fraud perpetrated by Holmes and Balwani, and of course customers who relied upon the results of Theranos testing for medical information, so the harms aren’t just the lost of capital from gullible investors.
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