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- TexasPoet
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Re: Remembering them today
Tim2020 wrote:
100% agree, Texas Poet! Well stated. I wonder if anybody on this board followed the Murtaugh trial, similar in some ways. The video w/ Murtaugh's voice is similar to the bloody foot print in the cm's case, IMHO. Also drug use, I always believed cm was using speed that was removed from the market because it was causing people to be violent. And that is what caused the rage.
Hi Tim2020
Thank you. I also agree with you, about MacDonald and drugs. I had a friend long ago, a Anesthesiologist, who almost ruined his marriage and career because of drugs. Pills to stay awake and alert, and the pills to go to sleep. But he never took anything to lose weight. MacDonald worked two to three medical shifts and his Green Beret duties and found time to cheat on Colette. It was more than iron will. I feel sure he took pills.
I have followed the Murdaugh case since his maid died (murdered?). There are similarities, including the sacrifice of family members for his own protection. Also the arrogance.
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TP - agree the drugs played a part in triggering his rage. Lack of sleep may have played a part as well.
And a combination of things like his selfishness and his overconfidence that he could get away with it. And his simmering resentments at being thrust into a family role while he was still young. I think this was growing more pronounced after he became a doctor, as his dream was now realized. But he was stuck with a family he didnt really want.
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TP - agree the drugs played a part in triggering his rage. Lack of sleep may have played a part as well.
And a combination of things like his selfishness and his overconfidence that he could get away with it. And his simmering resentments at being thrust into a family role while he was still young. I think this was growing more pronounced after he became a doctor, as his dream was now realized. But he was stuck with a family he didnt really want.
Yes, you’ve nailed it. That is everything that triggered his rage, and moved him to do the monstrous acts he committed. I’m sure that as a young Doctor and a Green Beret he had more women than ever before available to him. I wonder how many of the men in his platoon were single and bragged about the “single life”. And of course, he was the smartest guy in the room, so it was a given he would “get away with it”, in his mind.
One of the times I was reading his account of his struggles with the (phantom) intruders, the repeated trips through the house checking on Colette, Kimberley and Kristin, trying to give them aid, and his supposed struggle to walk and breath, I wondered if he thought he sounded heroic? Did he expect awe and admiration? He didn’t of course sound heroic, he sounded like a stupid, lying murderer. Which is just one one of the reasons that he is in prison.
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TP - I don't think he was thinking it was heroic. He wanted it to be plausible. Believable. So people would move on from him as a suspect.
He was willing to take a hit to his pride, or macho persona, in order to avoid blame or responsibility.
In fact it was essential that he appear to be a helpless victim at the beginning. Which is why he cried out like a child for the emergency responders, and at the hospital. And when Freddy and Mildred arrived. He had to sell it.
Then later on when he became a suspect, he adopted an outraged victim of govt persecution costume.
When he was able to skate on charges, he then adopted an aura of success and achievement. Anyone that attractive and successful couldn't possibly be a monster.
Joe does a good job in his book explaining how the evidence and his statements over the years encircled him like a steel wire fence that he could not escape.
He was able to fool a lot of people during those 10 years he was free. But when presented with the evidence, a jury knew what happened, and they knew justice had to be done.
His followers and sycophants never looked at the evidence. They just assumed he had no motive, or wasn't a monster, and never questioned their assumptions.
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Excellent Grandfather, 100% correct.
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I, too, think about Colette and her precious babies today and so many other days. I have not been an active member here yet but I want to read more & learn more from the posts. Thank you, Texas Poet, for your wonderful commentary.