I don’t know. Are they the Chicago Bears?
Maybe. But they’re definitely not doing any type of Super Bowl Shuffle. So, at the very least, they ain’t dancing bears.
If its this season, then he is perfectly safe, as they would end up only choking themselves.
They call me Sweetness and i like to dance, running with the ball is like making romance…
To play devil’s advocate a bit, I can see a perfectly good reason to take the policy out on just her after the couple had news of the pregnancy. There is a remote possibility that the birth will have complications, the mother will die, and the child will survive. The husband has a zero percent chance of dying during childbirth. When considered in this light, the life insurance seems like a smart move.
Ditto all the people who have said that they could have been photographed at a funeral with a big smile if caught at the right moment.
At the funeral of one really cool aunt, I cracked a great big toothy one as soon as I heard them start to play polka.
At my grandfather’s funeral, I was laughing and chuckling with my cousins over the fact that his favorite song was “Let It Snow” and that one day after he died, we got a blizzard.
There were many instances at funerals for those people I’ve loved and lost where those of us who were close got together and told “Hey, remember that time when…” stories and laughed and cried off and on.
A smile at the vigil is not indicative of guilt or innocence. It indicates nothing.
Y’know, there’s a shitload of pics of me taken with different women, but that doesn’t mean I’m having an affair with them. I don’t see how posing with someone translates into sleeping with someone.
As for the smiling, I’ve seen pics of O.J. smiling since Nicole was killed, and he was innocent…
I guess I’m on the fence on this one.
The article does mention that the police revealed these latest factoids to the families because The National Equirer got its hands on this “evidence” and is going to publish it in its next rag. The police wanted the families to hear about it first before they saw it in the grocery store aisles. What I’m wondering is, how did the NE get its hands on these photos? Some mistress wanting to cash in?
My impression about the family supporting him is not that they’re in on it, but they’re being told to state publicly that they support him. Seems like a pretty quick and easy way to get him to slip up, by getting him overconfident.
Or they could just be clueless idiots.
Nah. She’s a friend of Linda Tripp.
Here is hoping for a hint of sarcasm…otherwise
Do you use a left or right handed opener on your can’o worms?
As for his goofy smile -
I personally laughed and joked and teased and flirted at the time of my father’s wake and funeral. I do not know why this was my reaction and I will probably never know - I was only remembering how much I loved him and he loved us, and at the time I found no grief in it. It was only in later weeks, when I really started missing him and the fact that he was never going to return sunk in, that I grieved.
I agree that this is STRANGE but it’s not indicative of guilt.
RE: smiling etc of the husband. Let’s not forget the tears and sobs of Susan Smith pleading for the return of her boys.
I wouldn’t judge the guy for 1/100th of a second of ‘evidence’.
If the cops havn’t nabbed him yet there is a good reason.
Maybe they should try to link him to JonBennet.
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husband unable to corroborate his story that he was fising at the Berkeley Marina. No witnesses. Possibly because he was never at the Marina fishing as he states.
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husband refuses to take a lie-detector test. Possibly because he’s lying
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husband found to be having an affair. Possibly provides a motive.
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husband took out an insurance policy on wife. Possibly relates to motive. Possible that decision was made before method of killing was decided upon.
*husband “…did not sit with family members at a vigil for his wife that was held on New Year’s Eve. Instead, he mingled with friends and family in the crowd, laughing and smiling a good deal of the time” as per above-linked modbee.com article. Possibly he felt uncomfortable sitting with his wife’s family.
A lot of “possibly” that if I were a betting man is adding up to “probably.”
I went to high school (and occassionally hung out) with a guy who did something very similar. If you google “Matthew Solomon”, there are a few articles on him. Killed his wife, got rid of the body, then reported it to police. Ended up leading the police to his wife in the search attempt. First thing I thought of when this hit the news.
As for the smile, after my grandmother died, there were smiles aplenty through the tears as the family got together and reminisced on all the happy times. Editors choose pictures to slant opinion. For all we know, some friend was cheering him up with a funny tale from their past, and he was remembering it fondly, or laughing back on it.
or just as likely, no one saw him 'cause no one noticed him. How often do you notice (well enough to recall some time later) some stranger you saw in passing, just going about their business?
, lie detector tests aren’t admissable in court for good reason. I’d refuse to take one, too.
husband found to be having his picture taken w/some one else. may be having an affair. My ex had several affairs, never once murdered me.
several folks have pointed out that there were good rational reasons for taking out the insurance policy. It’s not proof of anything except that he took out an insurance policy.
and, as has been noted, A. various people have various reactions to situations like this. Susan Smith sobbed convincingly for the cameras pleading for her childrens’ safe return. Andrea (?) had a completely flat affect after drowning her 5 kids. he mingled w/his friends and family instead of sitting w/her family? So if he’d sat w/her family instead, would you then be pointing out that 'he avoided his own family, perhaps ‘cause they’d know him well enough to know he was putting on an act?’.
I don’t know if he’s involved. But I’m singularly unimpressed w/the evidence suggested so far.
…except for the marina receipt he produced dated 12/24.
…or possibly because there’s no upside to it. After all, everyone’s already decided he’s ‘cold and calculating.’ If he passes, he passed because he’s cold and calculating. If he fails, burn him.
So the police say.
As others have pointed out, it may have been simple good financial planning, given that his wife was pregnant. I’m insured through work, but we had to buy insurance for my wife elsewhere. Also, if you want to collect on the insurance, and you kill somebody, you might leave a body where it can be found. I honestly don’t know - how long will a missing person have to be missing before insurance will pay on them being dead?
Maybe. Would anybody be that stupid, though? Maybe he really didn’t feel like he had anything to prove.
And if the papers tomorrow report that this alleged girlfriend had a key to the house, everyone will convict her. Until somebody remembers seeing a drifter in the neighborhood, then everyone will be pretty sure it’s him.
Yea, but girlfriend/insurance/big goofy-ass grin DO seem a bit suspicious, no? I mean come on folks–he definitely bears looking in to.
He bears looking into anyway. He’s her husband; of course he should be investigated.
What bothers me is people’s ability to run away with the barest of facts and assume others are guilty. Apparently there’s millions of Eunice Stones running around. It’s funny how, even within this thread and based on one link, facts are already being blown up; you say here he has a girlfriend, yet there’s not actually any report to that effect. You’re saying that based on an anonymous, second-hand, uncorroborated tip made to a reporter at the Modesto Bee. Gosh, I can’t say I’d be ready to vote for execution just yet on what basically amounts to anonymous hearsay of hearsay.
And other than that we have… uhhh, what evidence, exactly? Well, he was smiling at least once at a candlelight vigil. That means exactly nothing; I’ll smile at funerals, but I haven’t killed anyone yet. He won’t submit to a lie detector test? If you asked ME to submit to a lie detector test about Laci Peterson, I wouldn’t volunteer for it either, and I wasn’t even in California then; anyone who’s taken Psych 101 knows lie detectors return false positives pretty regularly. And that’s not evidence, anyway. He took out a life insurance policy on her when she got pregnant? Any smart couple would do the same. That’s not evidence, either.
Really, this all adds up to nothing. Who knows, maybe he did do it, but I’d like to hear about some actual evidence first. You know, something that actually objectively demonstrates he did it or hired someone to do it, not “Oooh, look, for 1/400th of a second he appears to be smiling!!!” Show me physical evidence of his being at the scene, or a witness that saw him drive away, or an accomplice’s confession.