Because I have to wait for the bank to open -

[kyburg]

Honey, here's one for the students at work. (Via tdj, of course.)

drsaddam brings one that just hits my buttons. Blogger has been arrested for killing his wife...over a year ago, by spiking her Gatorade with antifreeze. The motive appears to be a $250,000 life insurance policy.

I think the heartless waste of carbon needs to spend the rest of his life - and may it be a long one - living on Gatorade in a prison cell and wondering when someone is going to slip him the antifreeze. Cos' well - he'll get life for this, if they convict him. That's how it should be done.

*shivers* I hate Gatorade. I hate antifreeze poisoning.

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[tully-monster.livejournal.com]

Eeeeesh.

Looking at his blog, I feel especially sorry for the pretty girl with the Labrador puppy. I'm sure she had absolutely no idea what she was dealing with.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

If she knew how to spot an abuser, she might have.

Oh this one is for baft_rage if ever I saw it.

[tully-monster.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but sometimes they're incredibly hard to spot. They're so nice! It must be you that's the problem!

Everybody ought to read The Sociopath Next Door.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I noticed a couple of things from the report - one, she thought they'd saved $1,500 while they were in Boston, and two, she thought he was in school all that time.

Uh, who do you think she got that information from?

Probably was told not to worry her pretty little head about anything - and oh, you don't need to go to the doctor, they're expensive and you've just got a bug or something.

Probably a really nice guy. Riiiiight.

And they wonder why the world needs feminism.

[tully-monster.livejournal.com]

Ah, but see, that's the thing. Why should she not have trusted him? Really? He was her husband, after all, and a smart sociopath can fake a great many things convincingly. Unless, of course, she did start to catch on...at which point perhaps he thought it was time to go into action.

And...did she not go to a doctor? I thought she was hospitalized at one point. The doctor probably was looking for things like bugs and tumors, not poison. I'll bet he was absolutely solicitous of her health, both in public and in private, all the time he was dumping the antifreeze in her Gatorade. And then he got all that sympathy when she died suddenly.

The thing is, people who knew him as a co-worker and a blogger--they think he was so nice, such a hard worker, such a good radio personality. I guess it just seems as though blaming his wife for not having recognized him as an abuser feels like a kind of "blaming the victim"--some people are so good at lying to you and manipulating you that you never know what hit you until they're long gone...or you are...and he sounds exactly like that kind of person.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Spiked Gatorade in a 12X12 cell. Sometimes. I hate these guys.

[moropus.livejournal.com]

I wonder if they were religious right? The fact she didn't know about his activities and the family finances makes me wonder about that. That's big with them. Don't question the man, you uppity woman. I was raised by the religious right and brainwashed to trust and obey my dad, brothers, husband, and just about any other male in my life. It's waht they do.

I really can't blame a doc for not thinking of antifreeze poisoning. I bet that's way down the list of things people get sick from.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

It took them a year of toxicology work to nail it down. *BRR*

[foogod.livejournal.com]

Umm.. I hate to get all the torches soggy, but hasn't anybody heard of "innocent until proven guilty"? He's only been arrested, not convicted, and I note that the article linked to has a remarkable lack of any details about any evidence that supposedly links him to the crime.

Just because you have a life insurance policy and lie to your wife about money doesn't necessarily mean you're a murderer.. for that matter, how do we know he was even lying to his wife? The only "fact" mentioned which even suggests this might possibly have been the case (which isn't even attributed) is apparently what she told her family about their savings, but how do we know she wasn't well aware of the financial situation and simply lying to her family out of pride or to make them feel better (which people have been known to do all the time)?

I'm not saying he didn't do it, mind you. I don't know whether he did or not, and it's quite possible he did. Based on what little I can written about the whole thing, though, it also seems quite possible he might not have, and at the very least the apparent presumption of guilt here is a little disturbing to me..

Just sayin'...

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I think it's the year they took to nail it down with the toxicology - and the alleged method - that got the knee-jerk reaction.

Point. And look. We'll never hear about the outcome - just you watch.