- I am upset that no one was held accountable.
- I am baffled as to why the state went for the death penalty. The case has to be rock solid for a jury to stick a needle in someone’s arm….this one wasn’t. The burden of this jury was huge and I wouldn’t have wanted to be in one of those seats. My thought is that many of these jurors were torn to bits that they had to return this verdict.
- The circumstances baffle: goes missing, never reported, body found so badly decomposed that a cause of death would never be certain. The medical examiner can only say it was likely homicide with suffocation or drowning a possible cause…no bullet wounds or blunt force trauma…just “animal activity” and severe decomp.

No one can say for certain who did it. And with all the deception and dysfunction with the players involved…no wonder jurors couldn’t tell which end was up. Baez was reaching….but he planted the seed of reasonable doubt. So much so that the jury had to acquit. No one was more surprised than he was, rest assured.

The jaded journalist in me says she will secure a book deal, consult on the TV movie, have more children and never get the therapy she needs. The media will check in on her time and again and we will soon be shaking our heads like we have over the Octomom.

The mother in me hopes that she will repent, seek forgiveness and get the help she needs.

Let’s hope she doesn’t have another victim before she’s locked up like Van Der Sloot and that she will do something ridiculous like OJ and get locked up without doing harm to another. Karma and conscience will be in play here.

I pray for all the missing and murdered children that none of us are talking about.