Since she confessed to hitting him first the cops only legitimate option would have been to arrest her.
It seems unlikely that this was their first argument and isn’t it well known serial abused victim behavior to make excuses for the abuser (partly out of co-dependence and partly out of fear of worse abuse to follow)?
Also we don’t know what stage things were at during that Moab argument concerning any encounters they may have had with the eventually murdered lesbian couple. My hunch is that the fighting in Moab had something to do with their previous night’s camping experience and it wasn’t a good one.
From what I can figure out from the time line, those two women were still alive at the time of this argument and the videotaping, and could have died that night or the next one.
Anyway, it’s pretty clear that a murder took place within about a week to ten days as they went up to Wyoming. You have to wonder what they were arguing about all that time.
Well at least she'd still be alive in all likelihood.
She was very very weak in stating that point - hardly in a safe place with him still intimidating looking at her from a sistance as she spoke! They should have BOTH been taken in - there was more than ONE REPORT at the point and she was threaten and still not safe in this interview as to what was coming next! She could see him BULLSHITTING the other cops out of the corner of her eyes as she spoke and knew he would win and when she was alone with him again she WOULD PAY A PRICE - maybe she didn’t figure on death BUT that is what she got! PARENTS - THESE OFFICERS WEREN’T TRAINED FOR THIS KIND OF DEAL AND IT NOW SHOWS SO TRAGICALLY! WE IS A BULLSHIT ARTIST - SHOULD BE IN GOVT AS US SENATOR, US HSE REP or CEO!