Something that struck me was this: there's no way I'd refer to the men who murdered my mother as "gentlemen." Even if I was trying to keep my language clean.
Well I mean, in the calls to Betty Ong during 9/11, the lady she called had called the hijackers "gentlemen" before she caught herself. So I can kind of sort of see it from a trained sort of view. But I wouldn't bleep myself about it. I'd call them exactly what I thought about them and let them bleep me or whatever.
@@UniverseWorldWideJennifer Pan is the case I was trying to remember when I heard “gentlemen”, thank you, it wouldve bugged me all day trying to remember! It stands out so much to hear the perpetrators referred to as gentlemen, it’s like you’re immediately guilty saying that!
Divorced him, took the kids, issued an apology to the victims, and moved out! Damn, his ex-wife was decisive, you don’t usually see that in cases like these. She must’ve really been fed up with him
FOR REAL. I caught himself that one time and changed it to monsters. But then called them gentlemen again a couple times and another term similar to that which I can’t remember right now 🤯
@@Ze_Moosethe most emotion he showed was when talking about her food and how good of a cook she was. And it wasn’t even emotions for her it was probably him thinking about all the food she made his lazy arse
@@Ze_Moose so abusive and psychopathic moms don’t “deserve that”? I can tell that your IQ can’t be any higher than 65. There are bad moms out there. It’s ok to acknowledge this fact.
His ex wife was smart to move with the kids RIGHT AWAY. This could’ve easily been a family annihilation case, which is often done once the man’s crimes are found out. The way he acts and his case is reminiscent of Anthony Todt.
YES she probably knew it too. She already had to barracade herself in rooms with her children to avoid them getting hurt when he was on a drunken tirade.
Shirley was a kind and compassionate person who touched many lives. As a close friend and colleague of my mother's, she provided invaluable support when I came out as gay, encouraging my mother to embrace who I am. Shirley saw the best in people and went out of her way to help others find happiness. Her tragic and horrific passing at Richard's hand is the worst kind of injustice. An injustice made even more terrible the months he was on the run -- adding great fear and anger to his family. Richard can rot...But enough about that asshole! Rest in peace, dear Shirley, your warmth and wisdom will stay with me and my family always.
Dude should have took the 15 years for his financial crimes and hope to get released early. But instead he bumps it to a potential life sentence. A true mastermind.
You can almost feel just how palpable his contempt for his own mother, he can rattle off his father's name and title and career while his victim was just 'Shirley'. He didn't give a damn about the woman that brought him into this world despite everything she did for him... but it didn't stop him from accepting her charity when he's at his lowest... Scumbag.
I noticed that too. There were a few times you could really see it. Another one that stuck out to me was when he was trying to explain why the men attacked her suddenly and he kinda smirked and said “Oh she was probably getting loud with them 🙄” Almost like that was a decent justification for him.
It could be a weird psychop*th*c kind of anger. No matter what he did - she never gave up on him. Even when he unalived her. The ultimate revenge. Smiling at him as he took her out. I know- I'm sick!😅 Seriously though. This lady sounds so beautiful as a Mum and as a person And he just sounds like the original oxygen bandit. I can't even.
I feel for this guy. I remember when two guys with guns broke in and ate an entire apple pie my mother had freshly made. I got crumbs all over me by trying to wrestle it away from them.
This was Bundy’s problem too. Literally, he fled after conviction and tried to sell being “set up”. But the psychopath in these guys can’t allow them to act anything but smug.
I know this is a serious case, but when he said, "So, lets see how he does," and follow that by "And he's already failed," in a span of 5 seconds absolutely killed me.
I was once a witness in a trial where a woman had been severely injured in a car accident. I happened to see the accident and stayed with her till the ambulance came. When I was being prepped for trial, I was told "Do not give more information than the attorney asks for. Yes or no where possible." I wasn't even the one on trial, but I still needed to be careful with what I said so that they couldn't later twist my words in some way. I'm sure this guy's attorney told him the same thing at some point, but he just couldn't help himself and had to give a full chapter for every answer.
I think over explanation is a tale tell sign of guilt, at least in a lot of cases. I believe in this instance, he believes himself to be smarter than everyone and has convinced himself he can spin his stories and explain it all away.
There's a guy that is a human behavioral analyst named Greg that was trained by the U.S. military to interrogate and be interrogated and he describes this action as "chaff and redirect". Much like a military plane will drop chaff flares to distract the enemy, people will deliver a bunch of irrelevant information in hopes to control the narrative or change the topic of discussion. Essentially, hoping to avoid answering the question by having another question asked or having the original overlooked.
He is an attorney. He KNOWS this, but his narcissism trumps it. He is the smartest person in the room and will convince everyone of how innocent he is…
"We were stationed at the Pentagon." I love how he's so egotistical that he can't simply say he lived in military family housing in Arlington, VA. He feels the need to say it so it appears that at 2 years-old, Richard was given military orders to the Pentagon.
He severely overestimates his abilities. He struggled to pass the bar. He couldn’t make a living as an attorney without stealing from downtrodden clients. He loses his family. He goes on the run and couldn’t use a college student like he thought. He gets arrested after what seems to be an investigation that lead authorities straight to him in Tennessee. He was only on the run for 8 months, which isn’t long for a person with a new identity. This guy really is blinded by something that causes him to be woefully unaware of self.
I'm not a psychologist, but I'd say this guy is a narcissist and a psychopath. According to one study, the attorney profession has the second highest percentage of psychopaths. Corporate CEO's have the #1 highest.
I’ll put money on the table that his wife didn’t divorce him because he got arrested. She finally saw a moment where she could get away without losing her kids to him.
she chose him in first place. this guy didnt suddenly transform his personality into a sociopath. he was always a sociopath and his wife (like most women) loved him for it. its well known in sociology how women find sociopathic men much more attractive. she finally left him (and stole his children) ONLY after he was destined for imprisonement and of course she abandons him at that point to be with another man.
I know psychopaths can be charming at first, but It’s hard to imagine him landing any woman with his arrogant deadpan personality. I’m sure his wife lived in fear of him, and ran when the opportunity presented itself. Thank God she got those kids out of that environment. I’m wondering if his mother felt compelled to help him because she thought he was innocent or because she feared him.
“Alright, and he’s already failed.” THIS 💀💀 had the exact same sentiment at the same exact moment. I always look forward to watching your videos and hearing your commentary 🩵
That made me chuckle and to did the quick black and white pause accompanied by a very matter of fact “yes he is” towards the end made me choke on my tea because it was so funny
When the commentator said “he thinks he’s convincing everyone with his stupid ass story.” I damn near fell off my chair, laughing so hard. Love the commentator love this channel. I’m obsessed although I’ve been a fan for over a year now I just thought I’d take a minute to express my gratitude for the content ❤❤❤❤
"Here's a list of examples of you lying to get out of trouble." "Yes I see that" "Do you think it's fair to say you lie to get out of trouble?" "I don't think that's fair at all"
Narcissists tend to forget that they have the right to remain silent, which sucks for the poor people that suffer at their hands and also for the people who have to listen to them relive it on the stand. It is good for humanity because they end up digging themselves into a hole and they get life
i once served on the jury for a case of three felony charges against a defendant who risked serving twenty years in prison. deliberation barely took two hours because we pretty much unanimously agreed on our verdict, and after a week of slogging through over a hundred pieces of evidence and hours of spoken testimony he was found guilty. then pinhead supreme had to make things even worse by claiming ineffective assistance of counsel which only tacked an extra ten years onto his sentence. i almost lost my shit when one of the other jurors told me that. all he had to do was shut up and take the L but now he won't be getting out until he's in his seventies. arrogance makes court cases so much fun.
We are all faced with tough situations. Do we deal with it , or try to get out of it, risking something much worse? 15 years in prison may seem life ending. I’m 48, 15 years would put me at 63 . Whoa. How would I restart life at 63? It might seem logical to scheme my way out of it.
This man is one of the greatest and most selfless martyrs that I have ever seen. After witnessing his mother being brutally murdered by two thugs, he selflessly cut off his ankle monitor, refrained from going to prison for fifteen years (which we all know EVERYONE wants to do) and humbly absconded with his murdered mother’s car in order to start a new life by shacking up with a college student as a guy in his mid-40’s in order to “protect” his ex-wife and children. What a guy! I wish I had a fraction of his humility and concern for others.
dude really wanted us to believe two people went and murdered his mom in front of him, then went "ok, let's leave a witness who's seen our faces and crimes, and just skedaddle" like bruh.
Very Jodi Arias with her first story after lying she was never in Travis Alexander's house. 2 ppl killed him but let her live despite her witnessing them killing him... 🙄 sure Arias... suuuuure
@@lauratehan9330 i wish i had just a buck for every time someone who is guilty said that. damn black my ass would be rich. i was watching another true crime the other day where the idiot said, it was sum scary weird evil black man.
This guy is actually one of the most dangerous evil people i've ever seen on one of these videos, his mother stood by him and helped him when nobody should and he butchered her and clearly has 0 remorse.
The body never lies. Truly it doesnt. My mother and i are mortal enemies. Shes a textbook N word, i hate using Narc. Everyone uses it; she is one....but if i recounted seeing this done to her, I'd be emotional...I'd be shaken. I'd try to stop it....even though she'd never protect me. Hes full of duping delight.
Pure entitlement is one of the most dangerous traits in a human. They don’t see it as you helping them or extending themselves for you, you’re supposed to do that for them. That’s just baseline in their mind. So if you do anything to “piss them off” they feel totally justified acting however they want to on it. My brother is this way and I worry about my parents a lot. Particularly my mother she goes out of her way for him all the time and he verbally abuses her and threatens her and she keeps going back for more because “he’s my son”…. smh
Give that prosecutor a raise. Absolute master class in cross ex. Like, he’s clearly lying, but the way she so efficiently deconstructs the layers of stupidity in his narrative is just chefs kiss. Also, living for the serious Elle Woods vibes she was giving with that “Mr. Merritt” about 1:42:47.
So unhappy about not having contact with his kids, but happy to go on the run and forget about them. His speech at the end was clearly just to hear his own voice
repeatedly referring to murdered mother as being “skewered” is so wild to me. he talks about it so casually or like he’s upset at his lawyer for even asking questions
This man is going to make my eyes roll out of my head. I couldn't even get through his first long winded answer without telling him to shut up. I would never have managed to sit on the jury for this.
My mom died of natural causes 5 years ago at age 90. I STILL get choked up talking about her final hours in hospice. I can't imagine any son not sobbing in describing his mother's brutal murder. I hope his kids change their last names so that he can never find them.😢
It’s so hard losing a parent. My dad died 15 years ago when I was 23 and he was 57. My dad was a conflicted man, but regardless of his struggles, there’s nothing I wouldn’t give to have 5 minutes with him again. I feel like it doesn’t get easier, there’s always something missing without him, but I’ve learnt to live without him. I don’t understand how this man can be so matter of fact
I was raised in a multigenerational home. And I lost my grandmother to cancer in 2016. I’m still healing from that pain, and if I had to relive that pain in excruciating detail, say a hypothetical malpractice suit, it would break me. It took years for my family not to just, descend into tears around her birthday and favorite holidays. I can’t imagine feeling so little lol this man
I bet that's why he killed her that day. She expected him to go to court, cos she put up her house for bond, but he wouldn't go, so they argued about it. And she wouldn't "let it go", not understanding why he would risk her losing her home . So he killed her, cos she "dared" to argue & question what he was doing.
I personally believe his story has a few truths: 1. HE attacked his mother while she was making a dish (that HE asked her to make possibly to distract her from him pumping himself up to actually do the horrific deed). 2. HE pushed his mother down the stairs 3. HE recalls the sounds his elderly mother made while HE was attacking her that and I am so glad he said the sounds forever haunt him. He spoke truth about the harassing letters also, HE planned on murdering either his wife or his mother instead of going to jail. I hope he hears her screams in his dreams. Him, Chandler Halderson and Joel Guy Jr. are disgusting human beings; they deserve no peace, no kindness, nothing but pain and suffering all of their remaining days ESPECIALLY for taking the lives from people who gave them life. Truely baffling.
i only disagree with the pumping up for the act. i think he snapped after his mother was giving him a peace of her mind after he asked her to help him go into hiding the day before he was scheduled to be put away. she said no. and he snapped. this is why there was no gun involved and instead a kitchen knife. this is also the TRUE reason he took her car. yes, it may have had a fuller tank, but it was ownership. like when an army conquers another army's territory and they take every thing that belonged to the conquered territory. he didn't plan it per se, in the sense that he was trying to get an insurance payout or whatever. he just snapped. otherwise there's no real motive. why kill your mother who is housing you up until you are to go to prison? remember he said during direct that they are both quite opinionated people. this was his subconscious code for she was nagging and was probably nagging him, and he also stated that she is a steel magnolia, which means after he asked her to help him go into hiding she was like you do the crime u do the time. he felt no "compassion" from her and his entitlement caused him to snap and kill her. he could not bare to even step foot in a prison and then on top of that knowing his lw-booty would get taken. too much for him, the son of a bird colonel. now instead of getting his booty taken for 7 years, it's gunna get taken for the rest of his life. narcs/soshes are so dumb, they are so completely self-absorbed they cannot see that there are other people just as smart and likely way smartert than they are. his sentence would have been so managable..
I was going to comment the same, because he really spoke the truth, and I'm also glad that the sound will haunt him forever. He calls himself 2 monsters, but then sometimes he calls himself "gentlemen", so telling, that he really is a gentleman. I also believe him, when he said that "they" were going to kill his ex-wife, and children too, and I have no doubt that was his plan, but things got too hot for him. You can add that evil Sydney Powell to that list of evildoers. She too didn't want to be punished for her heinous crime.
Can you imagine you're a new mother at the hospital holding your newborn child, and to be told that in about 40 years, this person you just created is going to murder you. Jesus...
Let's add Jodi Arias to that list, although Travis Alexander did not give birth to her, he sure did help her in life more than others, Jodi's lies were so infuriating as she was so proud to slander his name!!
I think people say that because in a huge majority of cases, it is true, and people find it frustrating that people who can't parent keep making children that grow up to do horrible, evil things. That being said, I agree with most of the comments here; I don't think there's ever been a more undeserving victim. I hope she has found peace in the afterlife.@@jillwanlin9558
It's HIM. Otherwise, why aren't all felons giving rise to new felons? Why do ppl from abusive situations and traumatic circumstances not replicate the chain 100% of the time? Just bc you descend from dysfunction doesn't mean you succumb to it, even if you have a proclivity to it. The era in which you grow up, the people you hang out with, your inner reflections and natural disposition all have to do with it. THERE IS ALWAYS A CHOICE NO MATTER HOW STRONG THE INFLUENCES.
The way the prosecutor just eviscerated his story so effectively and with such intention in her voice was a thing of beauty to hear. When she said "Mr. Merritt" a bit after the 1 hour 42 mark and paused, I seriously expected a "how stupid do you think we are?" to come out of her mouth. I mean it was already pretty obvious he was full of it before she even got her chance to cross exam, but the level of ease with which she dismantled his cocky lies was amazing. I only wish she would have brought up the snacks he got right after. Like... my man seriously said one of the first things he did after witnessing the very brutal and traumatic killing of his mother (and threat to his childrens lives) was grab gas and.... snacks.... any flicker of doubt the jury had should have instantly vanished. Who the hell has an appetite after something like that?! My dad passed last month and I couldn't eat for days, and even when I started to it was only by sheer force and tasted like cardboard. I definitely didnt have an appetite for a kitkat after hearing the news omfg.
Agreed. I expected her to poke more holes than she did, but early she didn't need to. You could see him physically wilt as her barrage of rhetorical questions landed on him. She got inside that cesspool of a brain and left her business card..
I'm sorry for your loss. Hope you're doing okay. You make such an excellent point though. Eating out of necessity while grieving is soo hard. Not like this wasn't a violent death either. I could understand if she'd died of old age if he wanted to eat his feeling but witnessing something that awful would have any normal person in shock, not snack mode.
As others have shared, I am very sorry for your loss. Unless, of course, he was like the "gentleman" in this story. However, I can understand how there would still be a time of mourning. Either way, I'm sorry! 💜
Former prosecutor and crim defense attorney here and I can't tell you how this video delighted me. You had me genuinely laughing out loud in the privacy of my own apartment twice: when you said the ostensible two "monsters" kept going up and downstairs for "no apparent reason other than to get their steps in," although that took me a minute and your lighting-fast i"nterjection when the fool disagreed with the prosescutor's question whether it was fair to say that he lies to get himself out of trouble. When he said, "I don't think that I do that," and you broke in with, "Yes he does," and immediately returned to the video so fast that if I had blinked or plugged my ears momentarily I would have missed it. I LOVED IT!!!
You really have brought a unique style to the genre of true crime, your scripts are clever/humorous and also take a somber tone that the victims deserve
Yes his scripts are far better than most. Documenting evil also has great scripting and shows a lot of respect to the victims of the cases he speaks on
I'm a VFW, I was a combat medic, I've seen more than my share of the worst side of humanity. I'm way more emotional than than this guy thinking about how her last thoughts were that her baby, the man she sacrificed for, loved beyond her means, and supported despite his previous moral failings was killing her in cold blood. The absolute horror.
@@Irunwithscissors63 technically yes. The term VFW was coined during the late 1890s and used to delineate between those who fought in the Civil War and Spanish-American War veterans.
Ah, the good ol' Jodi Arias defense of 'strangers murdered my loved one in front of me and then inexplicably let me go with a stern warning because we mean business, Buster!'
‘And then I go on the run instead of calling the police about the awful crime…I was hungry and my ankle monitor got really itchy so I had to cut it off.’
Lol I just replied to a previous comment by referring to her bs story lol. Narcissists seem to use the same material wherein they're the hero/victim in it without realising to everyone else it sounds like bad Mary Sue fanfic 😂
Jodie arias was another monster with NO FEELING or thought for the heinous murder she committed. She literally severed the head of the man she professed to love. At first she tried to pretend she wasnt there then She invented intruders ninjas then she wasnt satisfied with slaughtering the man she then invented she was sexually abused by him that he was a phedapile ?? People like this should NEVER be released. They are a danger to society!!
Yeah. At least he doesn’t have the selective amnesia that Arias, Vand der Ark, Nancy Brody and others have, where they can great memory for anything that helps their defense, but claim zero memory for any of their behavior that makes them look guilty of the crime.
If I had to guess a motive....I bet he had told his mom all about his plans to run away, assuming she'd help since she's helped him with everything so far. Richard was probably going to jump out of his cousin's car and make a run for it (or something like that). Shirley heard about that, said "Absolutely not, you will serve your sentence so I'm going to drive you and make sure you serve." So she texted their cousin saying she'd handle taking Richard to prison. Shirley probably said she'd tell the police where Richard ran if he did. Richard was probably very shocked and offended that his mom wouldn't help him in his escape plan. He now saw her as the enemy who committed ultimate betrayal.
Agreed! Only I doubt he planned on literally fleeing during the transportation process, he always intended on getting a head start. I think he manipulated her to take him herself (prompting the call to cancel on his cousin) and then she either discovered his plan to run OR he expected her to help him, but Shirley was going to do the right thing regardless. So in true loser fashion, Richard turned to violence when he could no longer talk his way out of things. RIP Shirley.
exactly what i said except i believe he ASKED her to help him go into hiding. but i like your account better that he was planning first to ask the cousin for the help and mentioned this to his mom.
@@MissOhio1980 no, the plan was always for the cousin to just pick him up because the mom was too dignified to see her son walk into prison. that part was true. the cousin was only called AFTER he snapped and killed his mom, otherwise, the cousin would have still showed up and he would have created a story as to why his mother was not there and still gone into hiding. in other words the only plan was for the cousin to take him to prison. since he killed his mom first, then he had to text the cousin to tell him not to take him to prison.
His mom probably criticised his life decisions and he couldn't take it. It was mentioned that he would get angry merely when someone else achieved something, so direct criticism while he was facing all the consequences of his bad decisions could have driven him to murder. He's a very fragile narcissist.
I think his thing was more one-upmanship. If you mentioned you were recently promoted to third assistant vice president of The Widget Corp., he'd reply he was at his condo in Fiji for the past month so he didn't get the great news. A real prince.
@@nononever3592 Maybe his mother mentioned a murder case she'd seen on the news "Do you know dear, some awful man murdered his mother, killed her more viciously than any son could murder a mother..." and before she could utter another word, Richard was in 'hold my beer' mode :)
While offering him help to get him out of the bind she probably couldn't help telling him what a low life he was for stealing old people's money in a position of trust and how she resented that he she had to fork out some of her retirement savings.
This is the kind of person who is a classic family annihilator. It makes me sick to think what would've happened if his ex hadn't left him. I'm so sorry for his mother. I can't imagine how her heart must have been breaking even as her baby boy was doing this to her. It's so awful, there really aren't words for that type of betrayal.
"His baby girl, his princess" who he pawned her mobility van, ruined their lives, killed their grandmother, disgraced his family. He thinks he deserves applause for being a father. He is a doner not a father. What an absolute waste of space.
absolutely insufferable excuse for a human being. i'm glad his wife was able to get away from him with the kids when she could. the mother did nothing but try and help her horrid son and he can't even shed a tear for her.
Only the most brazen of narcissist sociopaths would say to themselves, "I can convince a jury beyond reasonable doubt, without any physical evidence, that my story is completely true, I just need to testify on my own behalf and they're mine.
To be fair, it’s probably worked for him multiple times throughout his life but was just too dumb to realize the jig was up and it doesn’t have the same effect when ppl no longer have the wool pulled over their eyes
For the love of God, if my mother was brutally murdered in front of me by two thugs, I sure as hell wouldn't book out of town and try to start a new life hundreds of miles away. Yeah completely believable. A total psychopath and a really stupid person.
There are a number of channels replaying testimony with commentary. Your channel & comments are the most worthwhile. Thank you for getting it so right!
What’s hilarious is that he can’t keep from making himself this martyr- this noble, altruistic being. “Oh I served the community- I went out of my way to fill a market gap” and “oh I took all this extra burden to protect my family”
So he wants us to believe that these masked “gentlemen” were so outraged by him taking advantage of the elderly financially that they themselves murdered another innocent elder while allowing him continue harming others? Ah yes, of course.
Poor Shirley, imagine raising and taking in your disgraced child and they murdee you brutally. I imagine his ex-wife is very relieved that she took herself and her children out of thw home, it 100%would have been them
He's describing his mother's final moments, like it was a unsatisfactory meal, or long line at the DMV. Not an ounce of sadness or sympathy for his own mother, who was such a good woman, that no one would ever believe that it was "self-defense." No one would have believed that his mother would EVER attack him, so he had to come up with THIS absurd story to cover up his horrific crime. He comes across as smug, and really annnoyed that he has to sit there and answer these questions. He even seemed irritated at his own lawyer, like this is all SUCH an inconvenience for him, this silly little capital murder trial.
This clown had a much better start in the world than the majority of us and absolutely threw it in the garbage, and that’s not considering what he did to his family,particularly mom,unbelievable
Watching the prosecutor working on him is fascinating. She brings out a trait that at best is a disregard or disrespect for women & at worst is pure mysogony. Listening to the defence trawling his narcissism was nauseating but the way this prosecutor virtually dismisses most of his answers with a simple 'okay', all the while leading up to her big truth questions (& really pi**ing him off in the process) is sooo gratifying... People who use their privelege, intellect, professional skills & connections to commit heinous crimes against others are very, very dangerous. RIP to his dear mother 🙏
I love that!! everytime I see a female prosecutor being that out in someone it makes me so glad. these narcissists that hate women cannot help themselves showing flagrant disrespect to a woman who dares to shame them.
@@angelacompres7947 Going with Dreading's narrative that it's his confidence that got him convicted, the fact that she's absolutely kicking his ass the whole time and his confidence never flags is just hilarious.
Oh you kno he was thinking “btch I could kill you myself” the whole time. Prosecutors have a hard job bc you’d be paranoid these monsters would come after you if they got out of jail. Or even worse, your family, your kids. Even for small crimes. Or in custody battles-judges can get harassed/attacked/killed. There was just a judge killed in a divorce case by the crazy ex husband!
If I remember right his mother had her house riding on his bail, so she probably tried to stop him from fleeing out of pure self-preservation. Sadly she didn’t realise that he didn’t care about her beyond her usefulness. Poor woman.
This was exactly my first thought too. They argued when he wouldn't go to court, and she wouldn't "let it go". Cos how "dare" she question what he was doing. 😶
His face when he says “he stabbed her with such force”, like he is remembering doing it. He also moves his hand like he is reliving the fact it was actually him not someone else!!!
@@Grumpyblaccprince says the one being bitter. Bruh. It was quite obvious the first words he said his reactions. Anyone would know. I’m not bitter LMFAO. You seem to need therapy tho. With all that bitterness
I found it extremely disturbing how he called the alleged gunmen "gentlemen." Being a narc, he believes he's still a gentleman after all his crimes, including the brutal murder of his mother, who showed unconditional love (knowing his guilt) but being a "steel magnolia who spoke her mind" on her disappointment and probably anger was too much truth for him to hear. I hope he never experiences kindness or love while looking over his shoulder in REAL fear for the rest of his irrelevant life, reduced to just a number in a cage.
It instantly reminded me of a case where a daughter called her parents' assailants "gentlemen" when interrogated. She was later found guilty of orchestrating the attack.
His mother may have been the only person in the world who would have put money in his prison canteen account and he went and murdered her. What an idiot!
While describing the events leading up to his mother’s death he called the men “gentlemen” and then he proceeds to describe watching his mother die like a restaurant gave him bad food Insane
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Well said. It’s crazy what TH-cam will demonetise. This content isn’t overly graphic, it’s not sexualised, it’s not harmful, it’s psychology and trial footage. And yet they’ll let any amount of garbage make thousands per video. Good grief… and don’t even get me started on censorship. Ooh, let’s not say some words! I feel like they treat us like young kids with our parents spelling out words so we don’t know what they are, ‘D-I-V-O-R-C-E’-style. That in itself is next level absurd.
Its called a sales funnel. You put out a free product that directs people to your profitable product. Common tactic on social media. You'll never not recognize it again now that I've told you about it lol.
Well, somebody explain to me how Eugenia Cooney still has social media accounts and great channels like dreading gets videos removed, flagged, etc. It makes zero sense to me.
This monster is annoyed and bored while sitting and testifying in his mothers murder case. This man is gross, evil, a terrible son, husband, father and an even worse lawyer. He had a lot of opportunity and great things going for him and he destroyed it all.
Mom should have let him skip bail instead of making him report for 15 years in prison. Doesn't seem very loving to put your child in prison for 15 years. especially a non violent crime. Maybe she made him become violent.
Imagine being his children and hearing this story from him. If they believe him then they now are terrified for their own safety from these mysterious brutal killers. If they don't they know their own father is using them as pawns to get away with horrific murder of their own grandmother. Terrifying how men can treat everyone they claim to love in their life, the people they are supposed to protect as fathers, husbands and sons - using them as pawns both to enact their violent outbursts on and use them to avoid any accountability.
I agree with what you said except you said one thing that was very bigotted. "Terrifying how men can treat everyone they claim to love in their life, the people they are supposed to protect as fathers, husbands and sons - using them as pawns both to enact their violent outbursts on and use them to avoid any accountability" You should have said people not men. All genders are capable of these acts.
That last part you said demonizing men was pretty awful for you to say. Men and women are both capable of evil. It isn't the gender that determines this, it's the person.
@@benbooth2783no one cares about your crocodile tears because numbers don't lie... The stats on male violence against women and children is staggering. I understand that it's not all men, but patriarchy is a very real thing that affects how violent men and women are, especially men. Women have a right to be angry and frustrated that we live in a world where women are used as objects and things to collect or destroy, dehumanized completely and men can only feel offended when women need to vent their frustrations hearing cases like this constantly in the news or to our fellow loved ones.
He calls his mother’s assailant a ‘monster’ moments after saying ‘the gentleman who pushed her down the stairs.’ Who calls their mother’s attacker a ‘gentleman’? He’s clearly struggling with instinctive narcissist/psychopath ego preservation, as he attempts to seem heartbroken over a crime he committed.
LOL I literally posted the same thing.. I've met narcissists where they are constantly showing their respect for everyone through holding everyone high, when in actuality, they don't respect them at all.. he forgot to label them differently and accidentally called them "gentlemen"
There's a JCS video called 'Jennifer's solution' about a daughter who arranged for her parents to be killed via her boyfriend, and in the interview she also referred to the killers as gentlemen
Narcissist think that they are smarter than everyone around them. He thinks everyone else is dumb and that he can talk his way out. In his mind, no other lawyer is as good as him so he doesn’t need anyone else.
Maybe that's why he failed, was it twice or 3 times, but oh he didn't really need to pass at that time, he was doing well with help from Mom. What an ungrateful bastard!
19:25 I feel like the big reason he was talking about "not needing it because of his job," he was focused on trying to downplay how much his mom "actually" helped him, which really just shows how little he valued her help at that time 😬
The ironic thing is he was in jail like 4 years awaiting trial and on the run for 8 months before that, trying to avoid a possible 5 year sentence. He'd possibly have been almost free and clear to resume his life by the time this trial ended if he just went to jail in the first place
He actually did show emotion. When the verdict was read. There is exactly one person he has ever thought of, and that is himself. I hope he finds the kind of love for himself in prison that he gave to his family.
Exactly. I noticed that that was literally the only time he looked like he was about to cry when he heard thar guilty but when talking about his dead mother ,there was nothing. Yea he only cares about himself so now he will have only himself in jail since he love himself so much. U have to be a special kind of sick to kill the one that gave you life ,especially in that way and to a good person. It's hard to imagine a person getting even mad enough to do that. Like just a demon . Anger doesn't make a person do that to they mom
It's gratifying when someone like this blames their crime on someone else and is forced to describe themselves as a monster. He clearly wanted so bad to call these alleged killers gentlemen because that's how he sees himself but to save face he has to admit that the murder was monstrous.
Something that struck me was this: there's no way I'd refer to the men who murdered my mother as "gentlemen." Even if I was trying to keep my language clean.
Omg!! Great point. I didn’t even notice. This guy is so fucking full of himself I zoned out when he would drone on for too long.
Well I mean, in the calls to Betty Ong during 9/11, the lady she called had called the hijackers "gentlemen" before she caught herself. So I can kind of sort of see it from a trained sort of view. But I wouldn't bleep myself about it. I'd call them exactly what I thought about them and let them bleep me or whatever.
I caught that too! He has probably practiced “his story” a lot.
Yup! Jennifer Pan said the same thing, “gentlemen” in her interrogation too. She was also guilty. Not sure why these suspects do that lol
@@UniverseWorldWideJennifer Pan is the case I was trying to remember when I heard “gentlemen”, thank you, it wouldve bugged me all day trying to remember! It stands out so much to hear the perpetrators referred to as gentlemen, it’s like you’re immediately guilty saying that!
Divorced him, took the kids, issued an apology to the victims, and moved out! Damn, his ex-wife was decisive, you don’t usually see that in cases like these. She must’ve really been fed up with him
She must've known just how dangerous and unhinged he could be when he didn't get his own way!
and he sold his special needs daughters van! doesn’t even care an ounce for his own daughter if you look at his behavior
She had to LIVE with his attitude- also, pawning the van needed for his daughter due to her disability was pretty slimy too
I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt….but his story is ridiculous.
She was probably waiting for an oppertunity for a while.
Calling your mother's killers "gentlemen" in court is wild af.
Exactly what I thought. Weird as hell.
FOR REAL. I caught himself that one time and changed it to monsters. But then called them gentlemen again a couple times and another term similar to that which I can’t remember right now 🤯
Ikr?! 💯 He's the monster and coward
Very weird.
I just made the same comment.
The fact that he gave his father's and brother's full names and then calls his mother just "Shirley," says a lot.
I noticed that too.
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Yeah I caught that part too. Didn't spend time talking about her. No mom deserves that 😔
@@Ze_Moosethe most emotion he showed was when talking about her food and how good of a cook she was. And it wasn’t even emotions for her it was probably him thinking about all the food she made his lazy arse
@@Ze_Moose so abusive and psychopathic moms don’t “deserve that”? I can tell that your IQ can’t be any higher than 65. There are bad moms out there. It’s ok to acknowledge this fact.
His ex wife was smart to move with the kids RIGHT AWAY. This could’ve easily been a family annihilation case, which is often done once the man’s crimes are found out. The way he acts and his case is reminiscent of Anthony Todt.
That is EXACTLY the person that comes to my mind also.
YES she probably knew it too. She already had to barracade herself in rooms with her children to avoid them getting hurt when he was on a drunken tirade.
100% agree with you on that.
I thought that as well!!! ESPECIALLY after learning he pawned the handicap van. She did an excellent job protecting herself and her kids.
he really does remind me of anthony todt.. i was trying to put my finger on why he seemed so familiar
Shirley was a kind and compassionate person who touched many lives. As a close friend and colleague of my mother's, she provided invaluable support when I came out as gay, encouraging my mother to embrace who I am. Shirley saw the best in people and went out of her way to help others find happiness. Her tragic and horrific passing at Richard's hand is the worst kind of injustice. An injustice made even more terrible the months he was on the run -- adding great fear and anger to his family. Richard can rot...But enough about that asshole!
Rest in peace, dear Shirley, your warmth and wisdom will stay with me and my family always.
This is beautiful. 🫂
I'm happy for you that you had her to support you. I'm very happy for you that you have the support of your family.
I’m sorry for the loss to you and your community. It sounds like she was a great woman.
Loving you and accepting your lifestyle are two different things. Christians can't support a homosexual lifestyle.
People got mad at his ex wife and the kids due to him murdering his mother and was on the run?
Dude should have took the 15 years for his financial crimes and hope to get released early. But instead he bumps it to a potential life sentence. A true mastermind.
What a genius
Truly one of the criminals of all time. 🤦🏽♀️
I thought the same, had he went to prison and kept his nose clean he could I've been out early as 7 8 years and now he's going away for life.
Did he ask her mother for some $ 500 K to shorten his sentence and when she said she couldn't did he had a homicidal tantrum?
@@PaquiPaqui73 She probably called him out for his shit for the first time in his life and he couldn't handle it.
I love it when they testify in their own trial. It literally never helps.
EVER! These narcissists believe they can talk their way out of everything.
I have only seen one person represent themselves/testify on their own behalf successfully in my entire 43 years
@@GirlheadI can’t even talk my way out of getting a snack 😂
Never will talk my way out of murder
This one still doesn't come as close to being as good as Nancy Brophys taking the stand.. and by good, I mean BAD lol.
Not at all. But it sure is entertaining!😁
When the jury comes back in an hour you know you're F'd
They probably all decided as soon as they went back then waited an hour because they thought coming back in 5 min would feel weird.
they had to finish their state-provided lunch first
@@markengle2199 thirty minutes deliberating, 30 eating ice cream.
There is actually no correlation between deliberation time and outcomes. It could be an hour because the state has no case.
@@visioneerone That's what jumped in my mind too. Not that I blame them, anyone forced to listen to this guy's BS deserves some free food.
- "where were you born?"
- "my daddy worked at the Pentagon"
You can almost feel just how palpable his contempt for his own mother, he can rattle off his father's name and title and career while his victim was just 'Shirley'. He didn't give a damn about the woman that brought him into this world despite everything she did for him... but it didn't stop him from accepting her charity when he's at his lowest...
Scumbag.
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I noticed that too. There were a few times you could really see it. Another one that stuck out to me was when he was trying to explain why the men attacked her suddenly and he kinda smirked and said “Oh she was probably getting loud with them 🙄”
Almost like that was a decent justification for him.
@@amandam6263 Misogyny at its finest; accusing your own murdered mother of being annoying before you killed her.
It could be a weird psychop*th*c kind of anger. No matter what he did - she never gave up on him. Even when he unalived her. The ultimate revenge. Smiling at him as he took her out.
I know- I'm sick!😅
Seriously though. This lady sounds so beautiful as a Mum and as a person
And he just sounds like the original oxygen bandit. I can't even.
@@NavigatorMother I highly doubt she was smiling while being stabbed to death. 🤨
I feel for this guy. I remember when two guys with guns broke in and ate an entire apple pie my mother had freshly made. I got crumbs all over me by trying to wrestle it away from them.
You're silly...lmbo. And I'm glad you lived to tell the tale.
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We threatened you to never tell ever.
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This was Bundy’s problem too. Literally, he fled after conviction and tried to sell being “set up”. But the psychopath in these guys can’t allow them to act anything but smug.
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yup
Bundy got away with dozens, maybe 100 plus murders by some's estimation. This guy's intellect is nowhere near Bundy's. Nor is his charisma.
Yeah aside from that Bundy had no issues at all. Good call bud.
@@JustMe-fo4evTed Bundy??? Had no issues?
I know this is a serious case, but when he said, "So, lets see how he does," and follow that by "And he's already failed," in a span of 5 seconds absolutely killed me.
LMAO was looking for this comment 😂
Facts!!!!
lol same 😂
I paused and read your comment.. his face is sooo smug it's irritating 😑
Lol
I was once a witness in a trial where a woman had been severely injured in a car accident. I happened to see the accident and stayed with her till the ambulance came. When I was being prepped for trial, I was told "Do not give more information than the attorney asks for. Yes or no where possible." I wasn't even the one on trial, but I still needed to be careful with what I said so that they couldn't later twist my words in some way. I'm sure this guy's attorney told him the same thing at some point, but he just couldn't help himself and had to give a full chapter for every answer.
I think over explanation is a tale tell sign of guilt, at least in a lot of cases. I believe in this instance, he believes himself to be smarter than everyone and has convinced himself he can spin his stories and explain it all away.
There's a guy that is a human behavioral analyst named Greg that was trained by the U.S. military to interrogate and be interrogated and he describes this action as "chaff and redirect". Much like a military plane will drop chaff flares to distract the enemy, people will deliver a bunch of irrelevant information in hopes to control the narrative or change the topic of discussion. Essentially, hoping to avoid answering the question by having another question asked or having the original overlooked.
The Behavior Panel
He is an attorney. He KNOWS this, but his narcissism trumps it. He is the smartest person in the room and will convince everyone of how innocent he is…
Liars make all their lies embellished grandeur
"We were stationed at the Pentagon."
I love how he's so egotistical that he can't simply say he lived in military family housing in Arlington, VA.
He feels the need to say it so it appears that at 2 years-old, Richard was given military orders to the Pentagon.
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Yes this! His narcissism leaks into everything.
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lol! Right!!
Agree , it was hilarious
"How unlikable do you want to be?" Richard: "Yes."
How very Anthony Todt of him. 😂
I've suffered almost through this entire testimony, and THIS made me *howl* with laughter! 🤣
He severely overestimates his abilities. He struggled to pass the bar. He couldn’t make a living as an attorney without stealing from downtrodden clients. He loses his family. He goes on the run and couldn’t use a college student like he thought. He gets arrested after what seems to be an investigation that lead authorities straight to him in Tennessee. He was only on the run for 8 months, which isn’t long for a person with a new identity. This guy really is blinded by something that causes him to be woefully unaware of self.
And to top it all off, he thinks his own testimony his gonna save him.
Result: guilty on all counts, life sentence
@@AndreaCremoniABSOLUTELY love it!!!!!
Excellent analysis … Classic narcism
I'm not a psychologist, but I'd say this guy is a narcissist and a psychopath. According to one study, the attorney profession has the second highest percentage of psychopaths. Corporate CEO's have the #1 highest.
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I’ll put money on the table that his wife didn’t divorce him because he got arrested. She finally saw a moment where she could get away without losing her kids to him.
Yep. Knowing that she had to lock her and her kids up in a room whenever he got drunk and violent, she was just looking for the way out
100000%
she chose him in first place. this guy didnt suddenly transform his personality into a sociopath. he was always a sociopath and his wife (like most women) loved him for it. its well known in sociology how women find sociopathic men much more attractive. she finally left him (and stole his children) ONLY after he was destined for imprisonement and of course she abandons him at that point to be with another man.
I know psychopaths can be charming at first, but It’s hard to imagine him landing any woman with his arrogant deadpan personality. I’m sure his wife lived in fear of him, and ran when the opportunity presented itself. Thank God she got those kids out of that environment. I’m wondering if his mother felt compelled to help him because she thought he was innocent or because she feared him.
@@janai5074 who broke up with you recently? moid.
Even the way he sits in the box is rude.
Even his glasses are disgusted.
He used the phrase "finished her off" when referring to someone striking the killing blow on his loving mother. I could never. What the hell, man.
yeah that's a phrase you'd usually use when someone does something impressive
Oh, that must've been "the gentlemen"
Every time he calls them gentle men I am cracking up.
And I'm sure prosecution thought it was pretty good too.
The he said "by the way I am being sarcastic."
Bruh!
“Alright, and he’s already failed.” THIS 💀💀 had the exact same sentiment at the same exact moment. I always look forward to watching your videos and hearing your commentary 🩵
That made me chuckle and to did the quick black and white pause accompanied by a very matter of fact “yes he is” towards the end made me choke on my tea because it was so funny
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When the commentator said “he thinks he’s convincing everyone with his stupid ass story.” I damn near fell off my chair, laughing so hard. Love the commentator love this channel. I’m obsessed although I’ve been a fan for over a year now I just thought I’d take a minute to express my gratitude for the content ❤❤❤❤
"Here's a list of examples of you lying to get out of trouble."
"Yes I see that"
"Do you think it's fair to say you lie to get out of trouble?"
"I don't think that's fair at all"
Attorney: "O-"
Dreading: "Yes it is."
Attorney: "-kay."
This part got me 😂
@@suhanavirdee That was GOLD!
That made me lol.
As a lawyer he really should have understand how bad his testimony could effect him.
Hes to much of a narcissist to think he can't get away with anything.
wasn't a criminal attorney tho. but still you're right.
Narcs think the are god….just ask them!
Narcissists tend to forget that they have the right to remain silent, which sucks for the poor people that suffer at their hands and also for the people who have to listen to them relive it on the stand. It is good for humanity because they end up digging themselves into a hole and they get life
@@sonquatsch8585You still get about the same education. He’s an idiot.
As soon as i heard the tone of the prosecuting lawyers voice i knew it was gonna be good
"I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability." - Ron White
“You have the right to remain silent, Donkey - what you lack is the capacity!” -Shrek
Imagine turning 15 year sentence (possibly even a 5 year sentence if he got paroled) into a life sentence.
Impossible. He was going to Federal prison. He would have to serve minimum of 12 years.
@hollysteiner16 Still, a minimum security prison with white collar criminals would have been a cakewalk
i once served on the jury for a case of three felony charges against a defendant who risked serving twenty years in prison. deliberation barely took two hours because we pretty much unanimously agreed on our verdict, and after a week of slogging through over a hundred pieces of evidence and hours of spoken testimony he was found guilty.
then pinhead supreme had to make things even worse by claiming ineffective assistance of counsel which only tacked an extra ten years onto his sentence. i almost lost my shit when one of the other jurors told me that. all he had to do was shut up and take the L but now he won't be getting out until he's in his seventies. arrogance makes court cases so much fun.
We are all faced with tough situations. Do we deal with it , or try to get out of it, risking something much worse? 15 years in prison may seem life ending. I’m 48, 15 years would put me at 63 . Whoa. How would I restart life at 63? It might seem logical to scheme my way out of it.
@@sirvilhelmofyonderland Minimum security is adult day care compared to maximum security.
This man is one of the greatest and most selfless martyrs that I have ever seen. After witnessing his mother being brutally murdered by two thugs, he selflessly cut off his ankle monitor, refrained from going to prison for fifteen years (which we all know EVERYONE wants to do) and humbly absconded with his murdered mother’s car in order to start a new life by shacking up with a college student as a guy in his mid-40’s in order to “protect” his ex-wife and children. What a guy! I wish I had a fraction of his humility and concern for others.
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Amen.
dude really wanted us to believe two people went and murdered his mom in front of him, then went "ok, let's leave a witness who's seen our faces and crimes, and just skedaddle" like bruh.
i'm surprised he didn't say two black men.
Very Jodi Arias with her first story after lying she was never in Travis Alexander's house. 2 ppl killed him but let her live despite her witnessing them killing him... 🙄 sure Arias... suuuuure
@@sonquatsch8585 Black men are always the go-to when you're lying about a crime that's been committed 🙄
Two *gentlemen* murdered his mother.
Said no inocent person ever.
@@lauratehan9330 i wish i had just a buck for every time someone who is guilty said that. damn black my ass would be rich. i was watching another true crime the other day where the idiot said, it was sum scary weird evil black man.
His wife made a smart move, quick. If she hadn't, I fear she would have been the one ended.
100%
And maybe even his children
Scary how he describes “this man” stabbing his mother with such force that the handle broke, basically describing what HE did
Crazy right?? Omg 😳
This guy is actually one of the most dangerous evil people i've ever seen on one of these videos, his mother stood by him and helped him when nobody should and he butchered her and clearly has 0 remorse.
Tell that to Joel guy jr
Family annihilators are the worst
The body never lies. Truly it doesnt. My mother and i are mortal enemies. Shes a textbook N word, i hate using Narc. Everyone uses it; she is one....but if i recounted seeing this done to her, I'd be emotional...I'd be shaken. I'd try to stop it....even though she'd never protect me. Hes full of duping delight.
Pure entitlement is one of the most dangerous traits in a human. They don’t see it as you helping them or extending themselves for you, you’re supposed to do that for them. That’s just baseline in their mind. So if you do anything to “piss them off” they feel totally justified acting however they want to on it.
My brother is this way and I worry about my parents a lot. Particularly my mother she goes out of her way for him all the time and he verbally abuses her and threatens her and she keeps going back for more because “he’s my son”…. smh
@@SmartStart24exactly this! The entitlement combined with their exploitation is what exacerbates their true EVIL…whew, that was a lot of “e’s” 😅
He must have attended the same law school as Alex Murdaugh
Lol. Good one.
I think his law school accepts lower lsat scores than USC
Same as Saul Goodman
Give that prosecutor a raise. Absolute master class in cross ex. Like, he’s clearly lying, but the way she so efficiently deconstructs the layers of stupidity in his narrative is just chefs kiss. Also, living for the serious Elle Woods vibes she was giving with that “Mr. Merritt” about 1:42:47.
So unhappy about not having contact with his kids, but happy to go on the run and forget about them. His speech at the end was clearly just to hear his own voice
And his daughter was his princess but he had zero problems selling the van needed to transport her. Unreal!
My dad's the same. According to the family he says I don't try to see him. Forget the three times I tried and got no response. Some men are weak
repeatedly referring to murdered mother as being “skewered” is so wild to me. he talks about it so casually or like he’s upset at his lawyer for even asking questions
did this man really say they _“finished her off”???_
Yea he sick
Right? Yet some people here want to know why his wife would steal his children and hide them🙄
@@lindalucia6334she didn’t steal the children??
Just remember, every time he says 'this monster' or recalls something that 'this monster' did, he is talking about himself. Very surreal.
“Gentlemen you mean “
This man is going to make my eyes roll out of my head. I couldn't even get through his first long winded answer without telling him to shut up.
I would never have managed to sit on the jury for this.
This comment deserves wayy more likes!! Couldn't agree more and had a good hearty laugh at how accurate you put it
I couldn't agree MORE!!!
My mom died of natural causes 5 years ago at age 90. I STILL get choked up talking about her final hours in hospice. I can't imagine any son not sobbing in describing his mother's brutal murder. I hope his kids change their last names so that he can never find them.😢
Sorry for your loss. My mom died last year at 89 and I feel the same way. Air hug❤
It’s so hard losing a parent. My dad died 15 years ago when I was 23 and he was 57. My dad was a conflicted man, but regardless of his struggles, there’s nothing I wouldn’t give to have 5 minutes with him again. I feel like it doesn’t get easier, there’s always something missing without him, but I’ve learnt to live without him. I don’t understand how this man can be so matter of fact
good point, change your last name kids!! My mom died at 96. Luckily I have her portrait, to clean and take care of.
I just got to this point. It's sickening. My parents are the world to me, and I can not imagine anything like this.
I was raised in a multigenerational home. And I lost my grandmother to cancer in 2016.
I’m still healing from that pain, and if I had to relive that pain in excruciating detail, say a hypothetical malpractice suit, it would break me. It took years for my family not to just, descend into tears around her birthday and favorite holidays.
I can’t imagine feeling so little lol this man
wait, his mom took out a second mortgage on her house to free her son and he repaid her by murdering her? what a sick twisted little man
She did more than that.
She probably sexual abused him as a child. Seems pretty evident based on how he acts and answers questions. Very suspicious
I bet that's why he killed her that day.
She expected him to go to court, cos she put up her house for bond, but he wouldn't go, so they argued about it.
And she wouldn't "let it go", not understanding why he would risk her losing her home .
So he killed her, cos she "dared" to argue & question what he was doing.
I personally believe his story has a few truths: 1. HE attacked his mother while she was making a dish (that HE asked her to make possibly to distract her from him pumping himself up to actually do the horrific deed). 2. HE pushed his mother down the stairs 3. HE recalls the sounds his elderly mother made while HE was attacking her that and I am so glad he said the sounds forever haunt him. He spoke truth about the harassing letters also, HE planned on murdering either his wife or his mother instead of going to jail. I hope he hears her screams in his dreams. Him, Chandler Halderson and Joel Guy Jr. are disgusting human beings; they deserve no peace, no kindness, nothing but pain and suffering all of their remaining days ESPECIALLY for taking the lives from people who gave them life. Truely baffling.
i only disagree with the pumping up for the act. i think he snapped after his mother was giving him a peace of her mind after he asked her to help him go into hiding the day before he was scheduled to be put away. she said no. and he snapped. this is why there was no gun involved and instead a kitchen knife. this is also the TRUE reason he took her car. yes, it may have had a fuller tank, but it was ownership. like when an army conquers another army's territory and they take every thing that belonged to the conquered territory. he didn't plan it per se, in the sense that he was trying to get an insurance payout or whatever. he just snapped. otherwise there's no real motive. why kill your mother who is housing you up until you are to go to prison? remember he said during direct that they are both quite opinionated people. this was his subconscious code for she was nagging and was probably nagging him, and he also stated that she is a steel magnolia, which means after he asked her to help him go into hiding she was like you do the crime u do the time. he felt no "compassion" from her and his entitlement caused him to snap and kill her. he could not bare to even step foot in a prison and then on top of that knowing his lw-booty would get taken. too much for him, the son of a bird colonel. now instead of getting his booty taken for 7 years, it's gunna get taken for the rest of his life. narcs/soshes are so dumb, they are so completely self-absorbed they cannot see that there are other people just as smart and likely way smartert than they are. his sentence would have been so managable..
I was going to comment the same, because he really spoke the truth, and I'm also glad that the sound will haunt him forever. He calls himself 2 monsters, but then sometimes he calls himself "gentlemen", so telling, that he really is a gentleman. I also believe him, when he said that "they" were going to kill his ex-wife, and children too, and I have no doubt that was his plan, but things got too hot for him. You can add that evil Sydney Powell to that list of evildoers. She too didn't want to be punished for her heinous crime.
Can you imagine you're a new mother at the hospital holding your newborn child, and to be told that in about 40 years, this person you just created is going to murder you. Jesus...
Forgetting Chris Watts there too.
Let's add Jodi Arias to that list, although Travis Alexander did not give birth to her, he sure did help her in life more than others, Jodi's lies were so infuriating as she was so proud to slander his name!!
A sad but true fact: good parents can have bad children and good children can have bad parents RIP Shirley ❤️
I couldn’t agree more. I always see people in the comment section saying it’s the parent’s fault and this is not always the case.
He learned this behavior from somewhere. It was probably his father. His mother seems like they type to be co dependant on an abuser.
I think people say that because in a huge majority of cases, it is true, and people find it frustrating that people who can't parent keep making children that grow up to do horrible, evil things. That being said, I agree with most of the comments here; I don't think there's ever been a more undeserving victim. I hope she has found peace in the afterlife.@@jillwanlin9558
It's HIM. Otherwise, why aren't all felons giving rise to new felons? Why do ppl from abusive situations and traumatic circumstances not replicate the chain 100% of the time? Just bc you descend from dysfunction doesn't mean you succumb to it, even if you have a proclivity to it. The era in which you grow up, the people you hang out with, your inner reflections and natural disposition all have to do with it. THERE IS ALWAYS A CHOICE NO MATTER HOW STRONG THE INFLUENCES.
Why is it "sad" to recognize that adults are responsible for their own actions?
Glasses so thick and he couldn’t see how this would end smh
The way the prosecutor just eviscerated his story so effectively and with such intention in her voice was a thing of beauty to hear. When she said "Mr. Merritt" a bit after the 1 hour 42 mark and paused, I seriously expected a "how stupid do you think we are?" to come out of her mouth. I mean it was already pretty obvious he was full of it before she even got her chance to cross exam, but the level of ease with which she dismantled his cocky lies was amazing.
I only wish she would have brought up the snacks he got right after. Like... my man seriously said one of the first things he did after witnessing the very brutal and traumatic killing of his mother (and threat to his childrens lives) was grab gas and.... snacks.... any flicker of doubt the jury had should have instantly vanished. Who the hell has an appetite after something like that?! My dad passed last month and I couldn't eat for days, and even when I started to it was only by sheer force and tasted like cardboard. I definitely didnt have an appetite for a kitkat after hearing the news omfg.
I am so sorry for your loss. Sending you comfort and peace -
Agreed. I expected her to poke more holes than she did, but early she didn't need to. You could see him physically wilt as her barrage of rhetorical questions landed on him. She got inside that cesspool of a brain and left her business card..
I'm sorry for your loss. Hope you're doing okay. You make such an excellent point though. Eating out of necessity while grieving is soo hard. Not like this wasn't a violent death either. I could understand if she'd died of old age if he wanted to eat his feeling but witnessing something that awful would have any normal person in shock, not snack mode.
As others have shared, I am very sorry for your loss. Unless, of course, he was like the "gentleman" in this story. However, I can understand how there would still be a time of mourning. Either way, I'm sorry! 💜
Ikr. When I'm depressed and going through some ish,food is the last thing on my mind.
Former prosecutor and crim defense attorney here and I can't tell you how this video delighted me. You had me genuinely laughing out loud in the privacy of my own apartment twice: when you said the ostensible two "monsters" kept going up and downstairs for "no apparent reason other than to get their steps in," although that took me a minute and your lighting-fast i"nterjection when the fool disagreed with the prosescutor's question whether it was fair to say that he lies to get himself out of trouble. When he said, "I don't think that I do that," and you broke in with, "Yes he does," and immediately returned to the video so fast that if I had blinked or plugged my ears momentarily I would have missed it. I LOVED IT!!!
Right? These two brothers have the most well researched content and the best interjections of all ❤ I love it
Yep, I love when they break character. I always laugh because they say what I'm thinking!
Imagine having to tell your children that their father killed their grandmother. I really feel for those kids and hope they're doing okay.
You really have brought a unique style to the genre of true crime, your scripts are clever/humorous and also take a somber tone that the victims deserve
Yes his scripts are far better than most. Documenting evil also has great scripting and shows a lot of respect to the victims of the cases he speaks on
JCS is to thank. Jim Cant Swim is the OG
Him and his brother have the best JCS inspired channel imo, i insta click on any of their vids
Love JCS but I think Dreading can stand on it’s own just fine. The writing and editing styles are plenty different from each other.
If only we could get creators to stop using the most boring and milk toast stock footage. Ugh
I'm a VFW, I was a combat medic, I've seen more than my share of the worst side of humanity. I'm way more emotional than than this guy thinking about how her last thoughts were that her baby, the man she sacrificed for, loved beyond her means, and supported despite his previous moral failings was killing her in cold blood. The absolute horror.
Thank you for your service as a medic ❤
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Thank you for your service.
I had to look up the initials VFW. A veteran of foreign wars. If you live in America aren’t all wars foreign?
@@Irunwithscissors63 technically yes. The term VFW was coined during the late 1890s and used to delineate between those who fought in the Civil War and Spanish-American War veterans.
Using a female prosecutor against a misogynist is so smart.
Same thing with dumbass Tony Todt. That dude wanted to beat the DA's ass and it was all over his face.
oh fuck off with mysoginy bullshit
this is a ace attorney demo level
its funny every time lmao
Ah, the good ol' Jodi Arias defense of 'strangers murdered my loved one in front of me and then inexplicably let me go with a stern warning because we mean business, Buster!'
‘And then I go on the run instead of calling the police about the awful crime…I was hungry and my ankle monitor got really itchy so I had to cut it off.’
Lol I just replied to a previous comment by referring to her bs story lol. Narcissists seem to use the same material wherein they're the hero/victim in it without realising to everyone else it sounds like bad Mary Sue fanfic 😂
“Ninjas”😂
Jodie arias was another monster with NO FEELING or thought for the heinous murder she committed. She literally severed the head of the man she professed to love. At first she tried to pretend she wasnt there then She invented intruders ninjas then she wasnt satisfied with slaughtering the man she then invented she was sexually abused by him that he was a phedapile ?? People like this should NEVER be released. They are a danger to society!!
Yeah. At least he doesn’t have the selective amnesia that Arias, Vand der Ark, Nancy Brody and others have, where they can great memory for anything that helps their defense, but claim zero memory for any of their behavior that makes them look guilty of the crime.
If I had to guess a motive....I bet he had told his mom all about his plans to run away, assuming she'd help since she's helped him with everything so far. Richard was probably going to jump out of his cousin's car and make a run for it (or something like that). Shirley heard about that, said "Absolutely not, you will serve your sentence so I'm going to drive you and make sure you serve." So she texted their cousin saying she'd handle taking Richard to prison. Shirley probably said she'd tell the police where Richard ran if he did. Richard was probably very shocked and offended that his mom wouldn't help him in his escape plan. He now saw her as the enemy who committed ultimate betrayal.
Agreed! Only I doubt he planned on literally fleeing during the transportation process, he always intended on getting a head start. I think he manipulated her to take him herself (prompting the call to cancel on his cousin) and then she either discovered his plan to run OR he expected her to help him, but Shirley was going to do the right thing regardless. So in true loser fashion, Richard turned to violence when he could no longer talk his way out of things. RIP Shirley.
exactly what i said except i believe he ASKED her to help him go into hiding. but i like your account better that he was planning first to ask the cousin for the help and mentioned this to his mom.
Agreed. It's the only motive I can think of that makes sense. Otherwise, he had no (good) reason to eliminate her if she was still an ally.
I think he texted his cousin so he wouldn't show up and his mom would have known his plans so he knew she had to die from the beginning.
@@MissOhio1980 no, the plan was always for the cousin to just pick him up because the mom was too dignified to see her son walk into prison. that part was true. the cousin was only called AFTER he snapped and killed his mom, otherwise, the cousin would have still showed up and he would have created a story as to why his mother was not there and still gone into hiding. in other words the only plan was for the cousin to take him to prison. since he killed his mom first, then he had to text the cousin to tell him not to take him to prison.
His mom probably criticised his life decisions and he couldn't take it. It was mentioned that he would get angry merely when someone else achieved something, so direct criticism while he was facing all the consequences of his bad decisions could have driven him to murder. He's a very fragile narcissist.
I think his thing was more one-upmanship. If you mentioned you were recently promoted to third assistant vice president of The Widget Corp., he'd reply he was at his condo in Fiji for the past month so he didn't get the great news. A real prince.
@@nononever3592 Maybe his mother mentioned a murder case she'd seen on the news "Do you know dear, some awful man murdered his mother, killed her more viciously than any son could murder a mother..." and before she could utter another word, Richard was in 'hold my beer' mode :)
While offering him help to get him out of the bind she probably couldn't help telling him what a low life he was for stealing old people's money in a position of trust and how she resented that he she had to fork out some of her retirement savings.
Definitely a narcissist.
That's what I was thinking too.
He did all of this to prove something and maybe his mom was passive aggressive.
This is the kind of person who is a classic family annihilator. It makes me sick to think what would've happened if his ex hadn't left him.
I'm so sorry for his mother. I can't imagine how her heart must have been breaking even as her baby boy was doing this to her. It's so awful, there really aren't words for that type of betrayal.
"His baby girl, his princess" who he pawned her mobility van, ruined their lives, killed their grandmother, disgraced his family. He thinks he deserves applause for being a father. He is a doner not a father. What an absolute waste of space.
He was a diner.
He was a deer
He was a dinr
He was a denor
He was a dinor
He was a dener
He was a donr
He was a donor.
@@kenw2225😂
“donor, not a father” very well put
Shirley sounds like a loving, caring mother and caregiver. I hope she’s resting peacefully. What a monster this man is.
absolutely insufferable excuse for a human being. i'm glad his wife was able to get away from him with the kids when she could. the mother did nothing but try and help her horrid son and he can't even shed a tear for her.
Well, I'm sad for the mother, but I was worried at the beginning he murdered his wife. That would be a bigger tragedy.
@@usagi_tand kids, I was worried he’d kill his whole family
@@TheJcjonesacp Yeah, god.
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Only the most brazen of narcissist sociopaths would say to themselves, "I can convince a jury beyond reasonable doubt, without any physical evidence, that my story is completely true, I just need to testify on my own behalf and they're mine.
A term I think you can use here is 'malignant narcissist'
I could 😮
I hope people like that never change. Without narcissists we wouldn't have all this wonderful interrogation and trial footage to watch!
@@Ooh_PieceOfCandyYou hope people keep getting hurt by them so you have footage like this to watch? Wtf
To be fair, it’s probably worked for him multiple times throughout his life but was just too dumb to realize the jig was up and it doesn’t have the same effect when ppl no longer have the wool pulled over their eyes
He's the kind of lawyer whose employees start making copies of everything, just in case he expects them to give false testimony.
For the love of God, if my mother was brutally murdered in front of me by two thugs, I sure as hell wouldn't book out of town and try to start a new life hundreds of miles away. Yeah completely believable. A total psychopath and a really stupid person.
How is your comment from a month ago?
His wife seems like a smart and good lady, good for her for getting that divorce ASAP
I guarantee she had seen signs long before this
@@hollystiener16 probably, I’m sure she viewed his arrest as the perfect opportunity to finally leave
There are a number of channels replaying testimony with commentary. Your channel & comments are the most worthwhile. Thank you for getting it so right!
What’s hilarious is that he can’t keep from making himself this martyr- this noble, altruistic being. “Oh I served the community- I went out of my way to fill a market gap” and “oh I took all this extra burden to protect my family”
That prosecutor isn't letting him ramble about anything! 😂
All the questions for rhetorical as in, we know you're full of shyt
So he wants us to believe that these masked “gentlemen” were so outraged by him taking advantage of the elderly financially that they themselves murdered another innocent elder while allowing him continue harming others? Ah yes, of course.
I guess this guy thought that life in prison for murder was better than 15 years for fraud…bulletproof reasoning. 👍
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Classic narcissist. They are so dumb is unbelievable.
he was looking forward to dat prison dack and knew 15 wasn't gunna be enuff, esp. since he likely would have gotten out in 7 or 8.
lol
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Poor Shirley, imagine raising and taking in your disgraced child and they murdee you brutally. I imagine his ex-wife is very relieved that she took herself and her children out of thw home, it 100%would have been them
Yes! I was just thinking that! Gives me chills to think about it 😢
He's describing his mother's final moments, like it was a unsatisfactory meal, or long line at the DMV. Not an ounce of sadness or sympathy for his own mother, who was such a good woman, that no one would ever believe that it was "self-defense." No one would have believed that his mother would EVER attack him, so he had to come up with THIS absurd story to cover up his horrific crime. He comes across as smug, and really annnoyed that he has to sit there and answer these questions. He even seemed irritated at his own lawyer, like this is all SUCH an inconvenience for him, this silly little capital murder trial.
This clown had a much better start in the world than the majority of us and absolutely threw it in the garbage, and that’s not considering what he did to his family,particularly mom,unbelievable
I think his ex-wife and kids are lucky to still be alive. This guy is bizarre.
I feel for the brother. He lost his dad, then his mother who was killed by his brother. Can you imagine.....
Good point, feeling sorry for the dude too.
He ran for his life. He was being targeted. He was saving his family by running away and hiding.
@@kenw2225I hope this is sarcasm.
His disdain for his mother is palpable.
Sociopaths are always dangerous to everyone who enables them. Mostly bc they don’t see their enablers as whole persons but rather as necessary tools.
But people don't enable them because they want to. They do it because they're terrified.
@@Cryin_Lion not always true. definitely not always true.
20 seconds into examination:
"Annnnd, he's already failed."
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I absolutely LOVE this channel! You brothers are fuggin' awesome!! ❤❤❤❤❤
1:45:19 "Yes it is" had me dead, the little quick interjection was so fitting
Same here! 😅
Watching the prosecutor working on him is fascinating. She brings out a trait that at best is a disregard or disrespect for women & at worst is pure mysogony. Listening to the defence trawling his narcissism was nauseating but the way this prosecutor virtually dismisses most of his answers with a simple 'okay', all the while leading up to her big truth questions (& really pi**ing him off in the process) is sooo gratifying...
People who use their privelege, intellect, professional skills & connections to commit heinous crimes against others are very, very dangerous. RIP to his dear mother 🙏
She was flawless! Straight to the point, unveiling his laughable story and without any mercy and tons of character!
I love that!! everytime I see a female prosecutor being that out in someone it makes me so glad. these narcissists that hate women cannot help themselves showing flagrant disrespect to a woman who dares to shame them.
@@angelacompres7947 Going with Dreading's narrative that it's his confidence that got him convicted, the fact that she's absolutely kicking his ass the whole time and his confidence never flags is just hilarious.
She's got an attitude too, but she's got nothing to lose to it.
Oh you kno he was thinking “btch I could kill you myself” the whole time. Prosecutors have a hard job bc you’d be paranoid these monsters would come after you if they got out of jail. Or even worse, your family, your kids. Even for small crimes. Or in custody battles-judges can get harassed/attacked/killed.
There was just a judge killed in a divorce case by the crazy ex husband!
If I remember right his mother had her house riding on his bail, so she probably tried to stop him from fleeing out of pure self-preservation. Sadly she didn’t realise that he didn’t care about her beyond her usefulness. Poor woman.
That makes sense.
I was wondering what was compelling him.
This was exactly my first thought too.
They argued when he wouldn't go to court, and she wouldn't "let it go".
Cos how "dare" she question what he was doing. 😶
This guy keeps talking about how much laughter there was in all the homes he lived in (family, mom etc). This guy has never laughed.
His face when he says “he stabbed her with such force”, like he is remembering doing it. He also moves his hand like he is reliving the fact it was actually him not someone else!!!
No duh. It’s quite obvious
Yep, the whole description of the murder he's doing his best to remember saying "he" instead of "I".
@@Tail472imagine being rude and bitter for no reason fire crotch
@@Grumpyblaccprince says the one being bitter. Bruh. It was quite obvious the first words he said his reactions. Anyone would know. I’m not bitter LMFAO. You seem to need therapy tho. With all that bitterness
@@Tail472 I have one of you need her number , it can’t be good for your mental health to be so argumentative and rude
Dude showed more emotion at being sentenced guilty than talking about his mother's brutal murder. I love your quips throughout. Great video!
I would be sobbing gasping for air if I ever had to say my mother was upset with me for commiting 30+ felonies
Instead of just answering the questions, we learned his life story in about 20 minutes.
I found it extremely disturbing how he called the alleged gunmen "gentlemen." Being a narc, he believes he's still a gentleman after all his crimes, including the brutal murder of his mother, who showed unconditional love (knowing his guilt) but being a "steel magnolia who spoke her mind" on her disappointment and probably anger was too much truth for him to hear. I hope he never experiences kindness or love while looking over his shoulder in REAL fear for the rest of his irrelevant life, reduced to just a number in a cage.
It instantly reminded me of a case where a daughter called her parents' assailants "gentlemen" when interrogated. She was later found guilty of orchestrating the attack.
@@aurea. yep! jennifer pan is the case you’re referring to.
Because he ‘Richard’ is a gentleman.
He calls his mom’s assailant, “the GENTLEMAN who pushed her down the stairs”.😡😡😡😡
Well because he's talking about himself and he's such a gentlemen. Can't help himself.
His mother may have been the only person in the world who would have put money in his prison canteen account and he went and murdered her. What an idiot!
The number of doors he has opened for the prosecution in the first 20 or so minutes is insane.
Lmbo. WHY did he take the stand?
While describing the events leading up to his mother’s death he called the men “gentlemen” and then he proceeds to describe watching his mother die like a restaurant gave him bad food
Insane
I really appreciate your willingness to share this incredible content whether or not someone can afford Patreon. I have been watching since your first video, and can genuinely say each video is better than the last. To share that either with or without financial support is very generous, and I truly hope TH-cam will clear up its insanity about monetizing YOUR videos. They monetize so much destructive, mind numbing and genuinely harmful behavior, and you have an army to bat for you when you need it. YOU (and the team) DESERVE IT!!!
Well said. It’s crazy what TH-cam will demonetise. This content isn’t overly graphic, it’s not sexualised, it’s not harmful, it’s psychology and trial footage. And yet they’ll let any amount of garbage make thousands per video. Good grief… and don’t even get me started on censorship. Ooh, let’s not say some words! I feel like they treat us like young kids with our parents spelling out words so we don’t know what they are, ‘D-I-V-O-R-C-E’-style. That in itself is next level absurd.
Its called a sales funnel. You put out a free product that directs people to your profitable product. Common tactic on social media. You'll never not recognize it again now that I've told you about it lol.
that’s not true, his past few videos have not been better than the last. stop trying to give inane compliments
Well, somebody explain to me how Eugenia Cooney still has social media accounts and great channels like dreading gets videos removed, flagged, etc. It makes zero sense to me.
@@Walczyk You know that individuals have their own opinions, right??? Speaking of inane comments...🤔
This monster is annoyed and bored while sitting and testifying in his mothers murder case. This man is gross, evil, a terrible son, husband, father and an even worse lawyer. He had a lot of opportunity and great things going for him and he destroyed it all.
Mom should have let him skip bail instead of making him report for 15 years in prison. Doesn't seem very loving to put your child in prison for 15 years. especially a non violent crime. Maybe she made him become violent.
@@kenw2225That's a scary perspective.
The prosecutor had me cr@pping my pants in the first minute. This guy didn't stand a chance against her. Brava!
The BOLDNESS to get on the stand and tell that story, fully expecting it to be believed🤯 total psychopath.
Imagine being his children and hearing this story from him. If they believe him then they now are terrified for their own safety from these mysterious brutal killers. If they don't they know their own father is using them as pawns to get away with horrific murder of their own grandmother. Terrifying how men can treat everyone they claim to love in their life, the people they are supposed to protect as fathers, husbands and sons - using them as pawns both to enact their violent outbursts on and use them to avoid any accountability.
I agree with what you said except you said one thing that was very bigotted.
"Terrifying how men can treat everyone they claim to love in their life, the people they are supposed to protect as fathers, husbands and sons - using them as pawns both to enact their violent outbursts on and use them to avoid any accountability"
You should have said people not men. All genders are capable of these acts.
@@benbooth2783 Cry baby! It wasn't a bigoted statement at all. Get over yourself 🤣
That last part you said demonizing men was pretty awful for you to say. Men and women are both capable of evil. It isn't the gender that determines this, it's the person.
@@NickyBlue99thank you. Sexism is sexism.
@@benbooth2783no one cares about your crocodile tears because numbers don't lie... The stats on male violence against women and children is staggering. I understand that it's not all men, but patriarchy is a very real thing that affects how violent men and women are, especially men. Women have a right to be angry and frustrated that we live in a world where women are used as objects and things to collect or destroy, dehumanized completely and men can only feel offended when women need to vent their frustrations hearing cases like this constantly in the news or to our fellow loved ones.
I love how we get to see more glimpses of your personality with these recent uploads
He calls his mother’s assailant a ‘monster’ moments after saying ‘the gentleman who pushed her down the stairs.’ Who calls their mother’s attacker a ‘gentleman’? He’s clearly struggling with instinctive narcissist/psychopath ego preservation, as he attempts to seem heartbroken over a crime he committed.
Maybe being sarcastic?
nicely said.
When he called the perpetrator gentlemen I couldn’t believe it! Maybe projection? But he’s instantly guilty saying “gentlemen”.
LOL I literally posted the same thing.. I've met narcissists where they are constantly showing their respect for everyone through holding everyone high, when in actuality, they don't respect them at all.. he forgot to label them differently and accidentally called them "gentlemen"
There's a JCS video called 'Jennifer's solution' about a daughter who arranged for her parents to be killed via her boyfriend, and in the interview she also referred to the killers as gentlemen
He may have been a lawyer but clearly he didn’t pay that much attention in school and thought he was above the law.
My thoughts 2
Narcissist think that they are smarter than everyone around them. He thinks everyone else is dumb and that he can talk his way out. In his mind, no other lawyer is as good as him so he doesn’t need anyone else.
Maybe that's why he failed, was it twice or 3 times, but oh he didn't really need to pass at that time, he was doing well with help from Mom. What an ungrateful bastard!
19:25 I feel like the big reason he was talking about "not needing it because of his job," he was focused on trying to downplay how much his mom "actually" helped him, which really just shows how little he valued her help at that time 😬
The ironic thing is he was in jail like 4 years awaiting trial and on the run for 8 months before that, trying to avoid a possible 5 year sentence. He'd possibly have been almost free and clear to resume his life by the time this trial ended if he just went to jail in the first place
Yep, time served
He actually did show emotion.
When the verdict was read.
There is exactly one person he has ever thought of, and that is himself.
I hope he finds the kind of love for himself in prison that he gave to his family.
Exactly. I noticed that that was literally the only time he looked like he was about to cry when he heard thar guilty but when talking about his dead mother ,there was nothing. Yea he only cares about himself so now he will have only himself in jail since he love himself so much. U have to be a special kind of sick to kill the one that gave you life ,especially in that way and to a good person. It's hard to imagine a person getting even mad enough to do that. Like just a demon . Anger doesn't make a person do that to they mom
I love it when you get snarky with your commentary 😂 it makes these cases a little easier to deal with mentally and emotionally.
It's gratifying when someone like this blames their crime on someone else and is forced to describe themselves as a monster. He clearly wanted so bad to call these alleged killers gentlemen because that's how he sees himself but to save face he has to admit that the murder was monstrous.
Damn that woman who cross examined him was having a serious perry mason moment she was good as hell lol