[Girlene]

Did Maria have legal counsel representing her? Just wondering.

That's what is so confusing here. I'm assuming she had military legal counsel. There was a rape accusation. A hearing was to take place in a few days w/regard to the accusations, then some have said she was backing off from the case. Either way, how did the information that her mother had provided to investigators get to the media so quickly? I'm going to assume this was from an interview with NCIS investigators unless Maria had another ongoing case. Military investigators had to have released/leaked this information. Why? They must not have thought she was truly in danger, but had taken off on her own.

[usmcobra]

They released the Bipolar angle to ruin the victim, pregnant women don’t run away from their baby doctors.

As soon as I heard of this I knew she was dead, the NCIS painted her as unstable to cover their incompetence, and the press once again was all to willing to allow them to do so.