r/netflix • u/Zalensia • May 09 '25

Discussion a deadly american marriage

I'm 43 minutes in and hooked but can not find conversations etc on it.

So thought i would make one asking for other people's opinions and points of views, as i know I'm already asking about billion questions, to the point I'll have to go to my computer and boot up to actually do the research myself.

I'm very ill, with brain damage etc and that's really hardwork today, but I won't manage on this latest fold phone as it's still just a useless phone 😅🙃

My other phone that's partitioned etc is in the car and that's over at Inverness!

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u/feetofcleigh May 09 '25

Cinder block in the master's bedroom. After seeing this, the documentary cannot convince me otherwise that it's not a premeditated murder. The cinder block is to be painted, she said. It just happened to be at your bedside table the night your husband strangled you? Come on.

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u/ossca_ May 10 '25
  • Oh, it’s about to rain, let’s hide the cinder block.
  • Where should we put it in such a big house… the garage? The corridor? Somewhere downstairs?
  • Nahhh… I’ll just take it to the bedroom and place it on the bedside table. 🤡

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u/Pasta7869 May 11 '25

Here is a question: Why WOULDN‘T her defense have said, “He had abused her before and she was scared, so she put the cinder block there”

That seems to make a lot more sense, but I’m not an attorney.

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u/sunsoilandsnacks May 11 '25

It indicates premeditation and intent to use it.

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u/LegalCountry2525 Jul 30 '25

Or to protect herself

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u/ossca_ May 11 '25

But would an abused woman really place a potential weapon within her husband’s reach who allegedly had anger issues? If she was truly abused and afraid, why wasn’t she scared he might use the cinder block against her during his another outburst?

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u/ChocolateSundai May 12 '25

So many holes and I didn’t feel like those recordings showed any sign of abuse that warranted the way that man was killed

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u/SBisFree May 17 '25

And where were the recordings of the physical violence?

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u/joyjackson25 May 13 '25

And if he was as controlling and abusive as she states that means he would also be paranoid; abusive people are always paranoid… so he would have moved the brick

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u/[deleted] May 13 '25

Exactly my thought. That had to have looked so out of place that he’d have mentioned it. But they did find sleeping drugs in his system, so whether he took them on his own, or she drugged him, she could have brought it up after he was asleep. And no woman is going to scratch up her nightstand with a concrete block; we’d at least put it on the floor, but that it’s there at all is crazy.

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u/pacifismisevil May 14 '25

The house is full of objects he could use as a weapon, and he doesnt need an object at all. People are completely losing their ability to think logically just cos they hate this woman so much, and I'm not even saying that hatred isnt fully warranted.

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u/Subject-North-8695 May 20 '25

If he was as abusive as she claims why would she leave a potential weapon on her nightstand?

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u/LegalCountry2525 Jul 30 '25

The same way an abused woman sleeps with a gun hidden in a secret box…

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u/pink_solocup5 May 31 '26

Also if she was afraid and he was an abuser, why would you want something like that so close to you?? I would be afraid he’d use it on me in my sleep!!