Very good to catch up with yunz!
Yuppers I know about the media disconnect thing. I had been following the case but not as closely as I should have apparently.
In any case the embarrasing moment came Tuesday morning when a news anchor asked me about the Iyers report. I had read part of it, had heard her and Heidi Laugh (sp?) a couple of times thought them credible. Didn't check dates. But to get the info for the newscast I Googled Iyers in the news, went to Media Matters, printed out the report and passed it along.
Anchor came back to me and pointed out the problem of Terri's parents NOT subpeoning her and I didn't have an answer. Spent A LOT of time all day yesterday trying to come up with one, finally gave up and thought I'd ask here.
Yesterday morning the Doc's interview on the Beck show also got my antennae wiggling.
And then there's something else that has bothered me all along. Cyn, you know my position on this sort of thing but someone else reading this might misunderstand. Thing is There are so many strange aspects, not the least of which is the realtionship between Terri and Michael.
If Michael is such a demon...abusive, digusting husband...why did Terri link up with him in the first place? Was Terri an unsuspecting angel?
I can't help but wonder if something else wasn't involved. NO disrespect to Terri or her family intended, but early on could there have been substance abuse...an unusual man/woman relationship...were they a young couple living on the edge...did Terri have low esteem or was she just fooled by Michael. I have a hard time believing that last one.
Here's praying for Terri and hoping for the best. Good to link up with you again.
prisoner6
You're kidding me! What are you, 11 years old? This has only happened something like several hundred million times and you act like some naive young kid with virtually know life experience?
// did Terri have low esteem or was she just fooled by Michael. I have a hard time believing that last one. //
Actually it seems it was the last TWO. Don't know if you knew this, but Terri met Michael in jr. college there in PA, outsida Philly, I believe. She'd always been somewhat overweight in high school, and Michael was her first date. Her brother Bobby clapped when they drove away on their first date. She married him I think 2 yrs later.
I got an impression when I met the Schindlers (Oct '03 at hospice) that they were a kindly, very close knit family . . . and that Michael might have been jealous of what they had, ie, true closeness, decency, hard work, regard for one another, LOVE. My impression is further bolstered by Michael's unswerving INTENT to give the Schindlers continuous excrutiating pain. Like just today, when he barred them from visiting Terri for some 5 hours, w/no explanation! Like not only does he intend to have Terri's remains cremated (doing away w/any evidence, if applicable), but he furthermore intends to scatter Terri's ashes on a family area in PA rather than even giving them to her family at that point! What insult on top of their grievous injury!
It's hard to believe the Schindlers didn't really know anything was amiss w/Michael and Terri's relationship -- but then, I just read an interview w/ a mother whose daughter was killed by her abusive husband, and she had no idea anything was amiss for the 5 yrs or so of their marriage, though the daughter had bruises from being beaten. She never mentioned it to her mother or sister (who was a friend of mine); they had no idea.
Going a step further, though, I've gotten the feeling that Michael is a big bully who has successfully bullied Terri's family and the whole community. Iyer's affidavit includes that she was ordered to "do anything Michael tells you to do". I say enough already of this bully.
let me also address your first choices: Terri stayed very close to her family after she and michael were married. they even lived w/her family in FL. drugs did not ever seem to be a factor, not w/her anyway. don't know if michael has hx drugs / alcohol abuse, it might fit.
Her parents told me that even they were taken in by Michael for a long time.