Some People Just Have A Knack For Getting Away With Murder

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/08/14/preacher.slain/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Read it and weep. I'll bet she's a female socio who is laughing her head off that she got away with doing her husband in.

Ali

She and OJ would make a great couple.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/08/14/preacher.slain/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Read it and weep. I'll bet she's a female socio who is laughing her head off that she got away with doing her husband in.

Ali

It's a tragic story, but I have a hard time believing that it came outta nowhere. It's not normal and something must've been really wrong.

I do believe the stuff about him forcing her to do certain sex acts. Not because I have special insight but because of the mentality/culture of the South, and Southern Baptist in particular, where the man is head of the house and "needs" to be obeyed. I'm guessing he worked that kind of authority on her.

I just feel sorry for the kids.

ya I agree harrison..we dont know what happen behind closed doors. Everything might seem so beautiful on the outside..but when the shades are closed and the door is locked..WOW
I feel sorry for the kids as well..poor babies:(

True we don't know what went on behind closed doors, however she still killed him. SHe took a gun and pointed it at him and pulled the trigger......shot him in the back . She was not in any danger if his back was to her...

It is hard to leave a mentally and verbally abusive relationship, but it can be done. Apparently she forgot the commandment that said "Thou shalt not kill".

One of those cases where I often wonder if he would've shot her for the same reasons if he would be out fighting for custody of his kids already.

Hopefully she really was insane from everything, but I just can't imagine someone being that far over the edge recovering so quickly.

I don't even know what to think about this.

I'm about to express an opinion nobody here will probably agree with but, well, in this case?? I can easily see how she snapped - and snapped back.

People who have never been married to a minister have no clue what that life is like, nor do they really give two hoots. Under normal circumstances being a minister's wife is complicated, stressful and depressing. Under abnormal circumstances it's damn close to unbearable and I can speak with a lot of authority on that one.

No, murder is never an answer, but when you're in that frame of mind, sometimes it seems like it's your only way out.

WHAT??? You're saying it's okay to shoot someone in the *BACK* because they were an abusive lover/husband? He was someone she could have divorced, guys. Just because you think you are going to lose your children doesn't give you a right to kill someone. I agree with miu, she and OJ are a pair!

Ali

I wasn't there of course, but the abuse she describes really doesn't sound like something that would lead a reasonable person to either point a shotgun at someone during an argument or actually shoot said shotgun while the other person's back is turned. This wasn't a situation where she had no job, nowhere to go, was isolated from any source of support, etc. There were obviously other options that she chose not to take and it escalated to the point where she felt that it was somehow justified to threaten and then take another person's life. I don't know what the potential range of sentences are for voluntary manslaughter in that jurisdiction, and that does seem like the right charge since it happened in the middle of an argument, but that was an awfully lenient sentence.

I'm not saying it was the abuse that made her snap - I'm saying it was the job and the stupid church people that made her snap. They're totally unreasonable, all the way around. Was her husband abusive? Probably, most of them are in my opinion, ministers have control issues, big time, did he deserve to be shot? Of course not...I'm just saying that I can see how she could have worked herself into some sort of breakdown, God knows I certainly did...

okay being an abused victim I am speaking up. For ten years I was beat, raped ridiculed and forced to do things no one should. I was not allowed to talk to family unless it was monitored I was not allowed to even visit my family ..if I had to go to the store I had a time limit..even with taking the babies to the store this did not matter. It is not easy to escape an abusive man. Many times the scenerio went through my head about killing him to find an escape. Its hard to call when he would take the phone and you live out in the middle of nowhere..where the closest neighbor is 2 miles down the road..dont forget cameras in the house as well. A prisoner in my own home. FINALLY we had to move..we could not afford the rent..we rented a small dirty apartment..he was beating me and held a gun to my head in front of my kids..I do not know how to this day i got it from him and aimed it..All I thought about was escaping him..I told him to go to bed Or I would kill him and tomorrow he is to pack his crap and go...the next day he did and by that time I had called friends family who could be with me...why because I had the power...

HOWEVER many many women are beaten and killed everyday by abusive men..unless you have walked a mile in their shoes we can't judge..even if murder is wrong..in a abused persons eyes..escaping the pain is greater.

differance betwen Oj and her...He abused his wife and stalked her..BIG difference

What a terribly sad story. I think it is wrong to make assumptions about someone elses circumstances, unless one is fully aware of every aspect of the situation. No-one except this lady knows exactly what happened or why.

And I am sure that everyone would react differently to abuse of any kind. So unless we have walked a mile in her shoes, I believe it is better to reserve judgement.

My sympathies are with those poor children. Having just lost their father, and not having seen their mom for a year, now they are going to be torn apart by the legalities of mom trying to get them back, and grandparents wanting to keep them also.

What a terribly sad story. I think it is wrong to make assumptions about someone elses circumstances, unless one is fully aware of every aspect of the situation. No-one except this lady knows exactly what happened or why.

And I am sure that everyone would react differently to abuse of any kind. So unless we have walked a mile in her shoes, I believe it is better to reserve judgement.

My sympathies are with those poor children. Having just lost their father, and not having seen their mom for a year, now they are going to be torn apart by the legalities of mom trying to get them back, and grandparents wanting to keep them also.

These kids have already been torn apart. Their mother killed their father.

I don't even know how a child resolves that in their mind. Hopefully this man was the beast she claimed because shooting someone in the back is a pretty big hurdle to jump. It would've been so much easier if he was attacking her at the time and she reacted in self-defense.

I have often wondered what OJ's kids thought. I wouldn't want to sleep in the same house with that man. And I wouldn't want to sleep in the same house with her. I can't imagine either are stable enough to handle the stress of raising kids.