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[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 7 points 58 minutes ago

I have a friend that married a PoS. At her wedding she told our mutual friend that her now husband hits her. I believe she got married because she was scared of being alone even though we're not old enough for that to be a real concern. A week or more later the mutual friend and I were playing cards at her parent's. The topic of the husband came up and we pushed the topic to this. I said she told us that he hit her. It turns out that they knew but had the belief that there is never a valid reason to get divorced. I shut that shit down right away and surprisingly they sort of agreed.

She divorced him months later.

Point being some people have weird and dangerous beliefs about marriage

[–] nucleative@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

The psychology of this case, and other cases like it, is really baffling. The article didn't go into much detail except mentioning the prior attempt, the millions of dollars of life insurance, and her cover story about him being addicted to opioids.

When investigators found those details the picture must have became clear.

What causes one person in a long-term relationship to off the other one? Why not just, you know, do what everyone else does and divorce? I'm sure being a divorcee sucks but it can't be as bad as a convicted aggravated murderer who will live life behind bars

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

You assume the relationship was the cause, and that it wasn't just an underlying latent psychopathic person.

Lots psychopaths don't start killing people well into adulthood, and otherwise lead normal lives.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 32 minutes ago

People tell themselves stories to rationalize everything. Some make sense to most people, some dont. The story this lady told herself to enable her to murder her husband instead of just divorcing him is surely going to sound insane.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 28 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

She tried to kill him once before and failed, and he not only stayed together but continued to let her get near his food and drink? My guy...

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago

Some kinks are unhealthy

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe they were Mormons. Their views on marriage are kinda...unique.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

"yeah it's risky but that I can beat that pussy up like Muhammad Ali and drive her wild even after I'm done with her sister so it's a fair trade"

[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Sex must have been amazing

[–] JayK117@aussie.zone 9 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Oh so it's not Erika Kirk... This time

[–] half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 53 minutes ago

Interestingly, the same defense team who defended Kouri Richins (the Utah mom) is defending the guy who killed Charlie Kirk.

[–] baatliwala@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 5 points 51 minutes ago

Someone who is good with .gifs needs to add the coffee pouring right out his neck.

Needed material for the sequel?

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 26 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

And of course it happened in Utah - the Florida of the West.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Defendant’s first name checks out.

(Kouri)

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Hey when you do something its a good idea to benefit from it in all ways possible.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 39 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Reminds me of "'How to murder your husband' writer sentenced for murdering husband"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61786575

[–] ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca 12 points 3 hours ago

Real OJ Simpson "If I did it" vibes.

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 17 points 4 hours ago

At least she didn't name it "How to murder your husband and get away with it".

[–] markz@suppo.fi 91 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Not that weird. Usually these types can't shut the fuck about it.

The internet search history from Richins's phone included "what is a lethal.dose.of.fetanayl" and "luxury prisons for the rich America"

Lmao

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 43 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

As a defense attorney I would've immediately declared my client mentally disabled and listed the search history as proof.

[–] muffedtrims@lemmy.world 32 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Good Lord. Pic of internet searches shown in court.

[–] jwt@programming.dev 4 points 1 hour ago

Big "Can u get pregante" vibes.

[–] half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 57 minutes ago

Lmao I followed this trial start to finish but mainly listened to it in the background podcast-style so I didn't see most of the closing slides. Didn't realize how many typos were in those searches haha.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 38 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

"how to tell the police that you totally did it and leave every trace imaginable, for ipohen"

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

That would almost be as bad as writing a six page letter detailing all of your attempted witness tampering and accidentally having it found in your jail cell.

Which is a thing she did.

It could only be worse if that letter included instructions to make threats against someone's children.

Oh. It did.

Look up the "Walk the dog" letter. It is one of the most unbelievably damning pieces of evidence you will ever see. The prosecution literally built their entire closing argument around it because it's so bad that they can just discard the rest of their case and still win on that alone.

[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago

You misspelled iphind

[–] marighost@piefed.social 33 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

She also searched for her own net worth, which is super embarrassing.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That's interesting. On the surface one might assume she's just dumb and doesn't understand how to assess her finances, but I wonder if there's more to it; maybe she already knew her net worth (or didn't particularly care), but wanted to know what other people say her net worth is.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Ngl, if I had "people googling my net worth" money, I'd check at least once lol

[–] half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

She didn't. She was in the hole $1.5M. There's a whole series of fraud cases which are basically her singled-handed personal ponzi scheme of bad loans that are still pending trial.

[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 36 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Can’t write books without doing some research, I guess?

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

Write what you know.