[Mad Mammoth]

He's not "sick".
He's evil and -extremely- clever.

Exactly. Michael Schiavo is probably one of the most clever criminal minds to come down the road in a long time. It is possible that he lost his temper with Terri in 1990, grabbed her by the throat, choked her until she passed out, her heart stopped, and her brain was deprived of oxygen. In order to cover his ass, he made up tha story about finding her collapsed, and he NEVER explained satisfactorily WHY he did not apply CPR to her, when he was qualified to do so.

In the years following his attempted strangulation of Terri, he was probably consumed with guilt, which is why he was so adamant about wanting to take care of her 'for the rest of his life', especially when that testimony was instrumental in getting a total of 2 million+ in malpractice suits, one settled out of court, one settled in court.

After he got the money, he realized that all he had to do was let his wife die a slow 'natural' death, and budda-boom-budda-bing, he would be in fat city with an easy six figure bank account which properly invested would mean he would never work another day in his life, which would also mean quite the windfall for his NEW girlfriend and the kids he fathered by her in the following years.

He would need a pro-death attorney. He found one, George Felos. Felos was connected, having made campaign contributions to Judge George Greer, and Greer, being the simpleton he is, was easily manipulated by Felos via the faux-heart wrenching testimony of Michael Schiavo.

Whether or not Greer received any additional financial 'incentives' remains to be seen. If so, Felos would certainly not make them openly, he would make them most likely in the form of a blind trust, or some sort of real estate transaction that would be difficult if not impossible to trace back to Greer.

The only thing Michael Schiavo did not count on were Terri's parents refusing to go along with his questionable story about 'Terri wanting to die', and the public uproar as news of Terri's plight became page one news.

Right now, Schiavo is throwing the dice with his invitation to President Bush and Governor Bush to 'come visit Terri' because he is gambling that by the time they arrived (IF they were to actually visit), Terri's condition will be so depleted that she will appear to be exactly the way he is claiming, i.e., a 'persistent vegetative state'. If he were so convinced of the correctness of his position, why didn't he invite Governor Jeb Bush LAST YEAR before 'Terri's Law' was passed at the State level? Why? Because Terri was still too full of life at that time and he had to keep her as isolated and under wraps as possible.

If there is a God in Heaven, Michael Schiavo will not get away with his plot to murder his wife, and the truth WILL be revealed.

[supercat]

Exactly. Michael Schiavo is probably one of the most clever criminal minds to come down the road in a long time.

Nonsense. He's made many mistakes which he's only gotten away with because corrupt officials were helping him. And even there he hasn't totally gotten away with them.

Felos and Greer are somewhat clever. Michael can't even handle a softball interview without messing up.

[Salamander]

I've personally had what's known as the "sleeper hold" used on me.
Within seconds, you start to black out.
Within minutes, your brain starves for oxygen.
It's not even a "violent" tactic....you just press the arteries on either side of the neck.
It can be done with just one arm if the arm is used to make a v-shaped "vise grip" on the victim's neck. [that's what I got]
You have no chance to struggle or squirm, it affects you -that- fast.

I was lucky.
I think Terri wasn't.
I also think he thought he'd held her "long enough" since she went into cardiac arrest.

Done "properly" it leaves no evidence of external or internal damage.

There's a line in a Jethro Tull song;

"They know how to hurt and leave no mark".

Indeed.

[citizencon]

Amen.

[MilspecRob]

It is possible that he lost his temper with Terri in 1990,

Its, possible that... She choked on a hairball also. But that still would not explain the sorry state of her post bulimic blood chemistry. Terri shuffled off this mortal coil 15 years ago.

[Navy Patriot]

Re: #16,

Your senario is logical and quite probably accurate.

Michael's invite to W and Jeb is probably carefully crafted on the assumption that W couldn't stay long if he was able to visit, and Michael has Terri so doped up she could not show the awareness she has. This is a trick to use W, and I don't know of a way that W could visit and not fall into this trap. It is possible that the Republicans have wussed too long and Terri will pay the price.

[Taft in '52]

If there is a God in Heaven, Michael Schiavo will not get away with his plot to murder his wife, and the truth WILL be revealed.

If Terri Schiavo is, indeed, the victim of a murder plot, the killer ought to ponder the fact that in most states, there is no statute of limitation on murder--and I'm sure this is the case in Florida. A few years ago, a man in his sixties was convicted in Florida of a murder that he had perpetrated as a teenager in 1946.