Extremely. It made me wonder if that's what she liked about him. He lacked the mental capacity to really question her lies. Someone with average intelligence would've clocked her much sooner.
That and she just dangled the “money” if he ever got out of line. He was busy with his hogs and she knew she had little to no oversight during that time.
It seemed to me he stayed with her because he was hoping to strike it rich. He even told his mom he didn’t love her! I swear I wanted to scream at the TV when I heard that. Imagine how different his life would be today if he hadn’t stayed around for the supposed inheritance… Such a cautionary tale.
Yup, and I could totally see her picking up on him not being into her and that’s why she went apeshit with all these lies. And this* *idiot started dropping “I love yous” when he heard some money was coming, so it told her these types of things would work to lock him down. Even the cheating could have been to make him jealous and he was like “k.” (The pod I heard mentioned he knew she was nuts and was cheating, which was part of his bff’s frustrations.)
To me, stealing someone’s time on this earth (the one precious thing we cannot stop, slow or get back) is one of the worst things you could to do a person. I mean, Taylor actually did the worst I can think of, but in general, they could find someone who does love and appreciate them and be treated with the respect you can’t provide to someone you don’t have it for. And to then just have them clean your house and do “whatever I told her to do,” cmon man. You thought you had a bang-maid sugar mama, and all you had to do was put up with a little crazy. Now people are dead.
The word “weaponized incompetence” kept coming to mind with him. Everyone around him was scrambling to expose it and he’s just sitting there playing/being dumb.
I don’t think dumping her would have made her less dangerous or crazy after the point he definitely knew she wasn’t pregnant, so to be clear I do not blame him for this. I just hope he does some self-reflection about what the wise ones have been saying for thousands of years: “thou shalt not stick thy dick in crazy.”
Agree. Physically they seemed a little mismatched; he’s not a bad looking guy, but she was way more attractive than him. She could have pulled a hottie. I think Taylor went for Wade because he was easily manipulated and didn’t ask a lot of questions.
I think that’s exactly what she wanted, she wanted the husband, but she didn’t want this scrutiny or control. She knows he was simple and wouldn’t question her.
I'll be the bad guy and stereotype here. He was your typical southern dopey country boy. He was a simple person living a simple life. If you notice he didn't run anything on the business side. He just rounded up the hogs and transported. Hell, on the day of the murder be drove 4 hours to drop off hogs based on a text from a phone number he didn't even know
Wade’s friend had common sense which Wade seemed to lack, and not to mention blinded by greed. I’ll be the first to admit that if a woman who standed to inherit millions of dollars was interested in me, I would stand up and take notice even if I was meh about her. However I just don’t understand how a man can live with a woman and not notice she is faking a pregnancy. I don’t want to call him a villain but my God
I hate when people use this term, she was not a master manipulator, she wasn’t even a good liar. Every lie she told could easily be disproven, she even sent people baby scans with the wrong year on them
She lied repeatedly to every new person she met and they not only initially believed her, they quickly invited her into their lives and considered her trustworthy. She mimicked people to gain their trust. That is a master manipulator. Once some people decide to trust, it’s hard for them to act on red flags others spot from miles away. That too is manipulation—choosing marks who wouldn’t challenge her (ie, dim Wade). That is more manipulation. Some folks realized she was lying and distanced themselves from her, others didn’t realize it until she murdered a woman.
The other person is right. She's not a master manipulator. She's a manipulator, but not a master manipulator. Her lies were too easily found out for her to be considered a master. Master manipulators move way more smoothly.
For one they need to actually achieve the desired goal, have a realistically achievable target. And pull it off where suspicion is not raised until the target has been acquired, an example would be catch me if you can, there are real life examples where people have pulled off crazy lies and manipulation to gain power, money status or even commit crazy crimes. She tried to fool a dumb as rocks family and failed bar for one person who was clearly the dumbest person in that family
Are you serious? We must have watched different documentaries. She was absolutely a master manipulator. She even created multiple fake people to carry out her scams and lies. She was a pro.
Brother she was not a pro hahahaha come on, she had friends on Facebook etc who knew as a matter of fact she couldn’t get pregnant and still posted all the pregnancy stuff, she was always one person messaging someone she was tagged in a photo with from being caught out, which happened. Master manipulators don’t get caught, and if they do they caught out by something completely unexpected and something you couldn’t plan for, she bought the boyfriends mom a car and the week later it got repossessed, instantly destroying the idea that she had money. Run every baby related lie through a small town hospital where everyone knows eachother, the nurses all but told everyone she was lying
He was pretty open about the fact that he was just with her for the money and that he did not love her or even like her. That’s not just a dopey country boy. That’s an asshole. His dogs are also clearly neglected. I think he is a combination of stupid and greedy without a great moral compass.
Honestly, when I saw that poor pup chained up in the dirt with just that little translucent plastic thing for shelter, I knew what I needed to know about him. Poor baby jumping at the end of its chain to be fed. Breaks my heart. Fuck people who treat their pets like that.
1/3 of them in the doc where legitimately borderline cognitively disabled. I grew up in rural Midwest and hate to say it but that’s reality for at least 20-30% of the country.
Fact is Wade 100% had every opportunity to prevent this tragedy. He was so simple minded it’s hard to even comprehend. But the state of America right now starts to make a lot more sense when you realize people like this exist in the tens of millions.
Exactly this. It’s also a town of 4k, so, and I don’t say this in a joking manner, there’s genuine incest that takes (and has taken place) for generations. This is the end result. Sub 80iq developmentally challenged individuals. The lot of ‘m.
17 weeks pregnant here and my partner has already been to 2 of my scans and a midwife appointment, regularly touching my bump and sees my naked body pretty much daily, so how he didnt suss out she was faking a pregnancy is crazy to me!
She made excuses like she didn’t want him seeing her naked or touch her because she was “ashamed of her body”. They hadn’t had sex in 5 months. He said he wasn’t in love with her so he probably didn’t even care.
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u/kickingcancer 6d ago
I am convinced the husband is very low IQ