Town looks for answers in preacher's killing

cnn ^ | 6/30/6 | ann oneil

[Arizona Carolyn]

I hadn't read the companion article on CNN (Not a CNN News fan) and went back and read it just now. I can't think of any excuse for what she did, based on her statement.

[GOP Poet]

You have never heard of a person going through something early on in their life, overcoming it, healing, maturing and then getting a degree in that specific field to help others or to make progress in that specific areana?

Where the heck do many professionals get the ideas for what they want to do for a living, from no where? Many times it comes from what they have seen in their lives, whether it be an artist exposed to bad or good art, a young boy that watches a fireman rescue his famiy from disaster, a daughter that watched her father struggle with Parkinson's and one day becomes a doctor herself. This is also probably true for the types of threads we pick to comment on as well.

Use your head.

[GOP Poet]

You know, I never cease to be amazed that anyone would fall for those Nigerian email scams.I hear ya. It is also a strange twist to come out of this as well. Should be interesting.

It is so sad her husband had to die, because she was so oh, I don't know, idiotic. Man, I would be all apologetic and get a second job, whatever it took to make amends to my family and my husband. Not shoot him when his back was to me. Sad. Sad. Sad what people do when they are desperate and full of shame (or atleast she should have felt this way. That would seem a normal,healthy reaction.)

[Arizona Carolyn]

Well, first of all I wouldn't fall for a scam like this, though I know people do all the time (I read those emails and laugh like crazy that anyone could believe them), but say I did and put my family into a bad place as a result, killing my husband and leaving someone else to raise my three babies wouldn't even enter the equation.

[Rte66]

The state medical examiner was on LKL one night several months ago and said he estimated that it could have taken Matthew as long as 20 minutes to die.

I don't know how long she had been doing the check kiting, or how long the Nigerian scams take to cycle through before being revealed. Seems like it wouldn't take long to find out the original checks are no good.

Mary said they had been having financial problems and/or marital problems for the past year and half - and that they had also had some marital problems the first 5 years of their marriage. Now, this is the admitted liar con artist talking, you realize.

However, the TBI agent said there had been a questionable check for $4800 in December 2005. That was 3 months before the murder. Supposedly, she was putting some of this scam money into their joint accounts (not all, lol - some was going to her *own*) - didn't Matthew wonder where it was coming from, when she had no job yet and was allegedly just going back to college?

(I said allegedly because I figured all along we would discover she wasn't enrolled at all - but I was wrong about that. Somewhere along the way, a reporter found someone who was in one of her classes this semester, so she really was showing up. I guess right after she would make her deposits in her Henderson bank account.)

[Windsong]

String her up from the nearest tree.

[Arizona Carolyn]

What a mess this is... if she handled the money, I could see her husband being unaware. For instance, my husband hasn't a clue what our bank balance is... he has checks with duplicates and he gives them to me to enter into the bank balance when he buys something.

However, I can imagine people were calling him from the bank when checks starting bouncing and him confronting her about what was going on.

[Rte66]

The bank had called the day before, when she was on the job for the first time as a substitute teacher. She had heated phone calls during the day, but we're not sure how much Matthew knew.

She kept copping to her "being a bad bookkeeper" as the reason for the little spat the night before the murder. Talk about an understatement.

[GOP Poet]

What a complete and utter fiasco! . . . I must admit I can't wait to read all about it [insert blushing bashful face here with a twinge of shame in the eyes.].

I will say prayers for their children though, poor things.

[Arizona Carolyn]

No reason to be embarassed, don't most of us slow down to gawk at a trainwreck? I feel terrible for how these children's lives have been forever turned upside down.

[skr]

If a neighbors rotweiler was running loose in my yard and I had kids I would threaten to shoot that dog, too. Those neighbors should have done some jail time for endangering the lives of children.

Exactly. I hope she had a very good reason to shoot her husband in the back, but what appears to be a man protecting his children is not the best evidence for her case.