Josh Mankiewicz

Well, you know people grieve differently.

Right.

But if you grieve by selling off your dead wife's possessions in a very short period of time, you're going to get judged for that, not just by your friends and neighbors, not just by people watching on TV, but by people whose job it is to lock you up.

So, yeah, get ready.

We do all grieve differently.

I got a podcast out right now called Trace of Suspicion in which how someone grieves is

is a huge part of the story.

So yeah, I would urge you to listen to that.

Yeah, well, many Dateline viewers would argue exactly that.

And of all the possible explanations, that certainly makes as much, maybe more sense than anything else.

Again, that feels like involuntary manslaughter because it's still, you know, if you don't have your gun in your hand, then it doesn't make any difference.

You know, if you're jolted awake, you don't kill anybody in the process.

I mean, that is exactly, I think, where the jury ultimately came down, but they weren't able to consider that charge.

Yeah, I think that's right.

I think he probably was jolted awake.

didn't realize that he was clenching his hand at the time.

I don't think he meant to shoot.

Again, if you're going to shoot somebody, you don't shoot them through the seat of a car, which might deflect the bullet and maybe not kill the person.

And then you've got someone sitting right next to your victim who you can't count on to tell your version of the story.

So that's sort of where I come down.