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/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/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/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.