Who is the accused?
So far we had a testimony from Tori's teacher, Tori's mom, and an officer involved in the case - has the accused actually been put on the stand yet? Is there a projected end date for this trial?
We know about McClintic's troubled childhood, we know she was unemployed at the time of the murder but she was looking, and she had held several jobs before, one of them including babysitting - she was good enough with kids that she talked Tori into walking off with her. We know she's addicted to meth, and admits to an anger problem. We know she was 18 and her boyfriend Michael Rafferty was 28. We know she tried to change her appearance, and planned what to say. She did it, she tried to get away with it, but when confronted, she finally confessed before the trial.
Guilty or Innocent, what kind of person is Michael Rafferty? We only know that his car was on site of the abduction, that his and Tori's blood was on the car door, that he tried to get rid of the car but only got rid of the backseat. That at 28, he was dating drug addicted 18 yrs McClintic who didn't even finish high school, who was clearly not an example of a mature beyond her years young woman who got it together - she was a mess and she was his choice of girlfriend. What was his other girlfriends like, were they young and/or messed up too? How did he treat them? Did he give them drugs? Money? Did he have any other GF before McClintic?
Did Michael Rafferty babysit? What was his job again? Did he tried to volunteer or work with children? Did he ever apply to be a police officer or security guard or other positions that would give him authority?
Does Rafferty have any close friends, how does he get along with his age-peers?
What kind of porn does he like? What's on his computer?
Did he ever initiate sex with a partner who was drunk or drugged up?
How does he react when a woman or a girl insult him
Did he get any write up at work or back in school for acting angrily? Whoever it was that chose hammer as a choice of murder weapon, whoever it was that didn't just kill a little girl, didn't just hit her on the head (which is where you'll hit to KILL), but /smashed/ up her body, breaking rips and bending low to hit her in the liver, had a lot of rage.
Does any parents who know him or recognize him ever felt nervous before he was on the news?
I really really want to know WHY.
ETA: ...and the rage towards a little girl, what I remember now is the murder of the Nancy Newman and her two daughters in Anchorage, Alaska, 1987, all of the victims were sexually assaulted before being stabbed, but the investigators noted that the youngest victim was made to suffer the worst, the target of the most rage, 3yr old Angie. It turns out that the killer was Kirby Anthoney, the drifter nephew taken in by Mr.Newman. Anthoney had a short fuse, he was violent towards his girlfriend before she dumped him for his boss who fired him shortly before the murders. He babysat the girls who would later kill, and he complain that Angie, a 3yr old toddler, was a brat who gave him a hard time. Before he came up to Anchorage, Alaska, Anthoney had left Idaho as the prime suspect in the sexual assault and near murder of a 12-yr old girl - the police couldn't make the case because the girl couldn't identify him, having been brain damaged as a result of the attack .
It doesn't sound like that Anthoney was a preferential child molester, one that was more or only sexually attracted to children, he had a girlfriend he was mad about losing, and he made overtures to Nancy Newman, the mother. Children are often the victims of opportunity for predators who found it harder to prey upon adults, who couldn't confront or hold relationships with their age peers.
"You can't go kick the boss's ass and you can't go kick your girlfriend's butt, and you can't get back at mom, but you really can expend all of this energy against a little child who can't fight back...Even if he hadn't murdered these particular people under this particular circumstance, it was just a matter of time before a guy like this would have killed." - Jud Ray (quote and the Anchorage details from John Douglas's Journey into Darkness, Chapter 10)
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We know about McClintic's troubled childhood, we know she was unemployed at the time of the murder but she was looking, and she had held several jobs before, one of them including babysitting - she was good enough with kids that she talked Tori into walking off with her. We know she's addicted to meth, and admits to an anger problem. We know she was 18 and her boyfriend Michael Rafferty was 28. We know she tried to change her appearance, and planned what to say. She did it, she tried to get away with it, but when confronted, she finally confessed before the trial.
Guilty or Innocent, what kind of person is Michael Rafferty? We only know that his car was on site of the abduction, that his and Tori's blood was on the car door, that he tried to get rid of the car but only got rid of the backseat. That at 28, he was dating drug addicted 18 yrs McClintic who didn't even finish high school, who was clearly not an example of a mature beyond her years young woman who got it together - she was a mess and she was his choice of girlfriend. What was his other girlfriends like, were they young and/or messed up too? How did he treat them? Did he give them drugs? Money? Did he have any other GF before McClintic?
Did Michael Rafferty babysit? What was his job again? Did he tried to volunteer or work with children? Did he ever apply to be a police officer or security guard or other positions that would give him authority?
Does Rafferty have any close friends, how does he get along with his age-peers?
What kind of porn does he like? What's on his computer?
Did he ever initiate sex with a partner who was drunk or drugged up?
How does he react when a woman or a girl insult him
Did he get any write up at work or back in school for acting angrily? Whoever it was that chose hammer as a choice of murder weapon, whoever it was that didn't just kill a little girl, didn't just hit her on the head (which is where you'll hit to KILL), but /smashed/ up her body, breaking rips and bending low to hit her in the liver, had a lot of rage.
Does any parents who know him or recognize him ever felt nervous before he was on the news?
I really really want to know WHY.
ETA: ...and the rage towards a little girl, what I remember now is the murder of the Nancy Newman and her two daughters in Anchorage, Alaska, 1987, all of the victims were sexually assaulted before being stabbed, but the investigators noted that the youngest victim was made to suffer the worst, the target of the most rage, 3yr old Angie. It turns out that the killer was Kirby Anthoney, the drifter nephew taken in by Mr.Newman. Anthoney had a short fuse, he was violent towards his girlfriend before she dumped him for his boss who fired him shortly before the murders. He babysat the girls who would later kill, and he complain that Angie, a 3yr old toddler, was a brat who gave him a hard time. Before he came up to Anchorage, Alaska, Anthoney had left Idaho as the prime suspect in the sexual assault and near murder of a 12-yr old girl - the police couldn't make the case because the girl couldn't identify him, having been brain damaged as a result of the attack .
It doesn't sound like that Anthoney was a preferential child molester, one that was more or only sexually attracted to children, he had a girlfriend he was mad about losing, and he made overtures to Nancy Newman, the mother. Children are often the victims of opportunity for predators who found it harder to prey upon adults, who couldn't confront or hold relationships with their age peers.
"You can't go kick the boss's ass and you can't go kick your girlfriend's butt, and you can't get back at mom, but you really can expend all of this energy against a little child who can't fight back...Even if he hadn't murdered these particular people under this particular circumstance, it was just a matter of time before a guy like this would have killed." - Jud Ray (quote and the Anchorage details from John Douglas's Journey into Darkness, Chapter 10)
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