Dr. John Delatorre

It does.

It sounds very stilted.

Yeah, it sounds stilted.

It sounds rehearsed.

It sounds like this was always meant to be kind of a teleplay that they were always meant to say as soon as they got on the computer, as soon as they got on the phone.

I think that the expectation is that if you really did stumble upon this scene and everything unfolded accurately, you'd be way more emotional than just kind of the robotic nature in which you're describing what you're seeing.

listen, again, it, it sounds like this was all something that they had been working on previously.

This look, this sounds like statements where they were rehearsing.

And I think that goes to premeditation.

I, these people weren't, they, this, there wasn't something that just happened on a whim.

This didn't happen because of crime of passion or whatever it is that we want to say.

These two individuals have been plotting for a very long time and had already, uh,

created this scenario in their minds and how it was going to be played out.

The reason why they could move into the bedroom and have the lingerie and everything and all the pictures, the reason why that could happen was because the wife in their mind was already a non-human obstacle, right?

The person that was going to come in who thought he was there for a specific reason then ends up getting shot.

That person was a non-human obstacle that they needed to get in the way to get to this call to set up their alibi.

Well, I think that that change is exactly what you're trying to describe, which is to either mitigate their overall culpability and whatever it is that they have alleged to have done, or it's about making them seem like someone who is not capable of engaging in a problematic behavior.

The more homely you look, the more matronly you look, the less likely a jury is to say that you engaged in murder, no matter what it is that you've been accused of doing.

But the prior, those are all the things that you do as your own freewheeling spirit, as the person that is trying to attract attention.

But in the court photos, you're trying to look like someone who wouldn't be drawing that kind of attention or engaging in those kinds of behaviors.