Without
taking a poll, it can be inferred that most people in Bucks County read at most
one or two articles regarding the recent murder trial for Jennifer
Morrissey. Those who read about it had
gotten the gist of the story, and then moved on. People can easily scroll past articles
quicker than passing clouds, and the details are quickly forgotten. An unfair comparison is that Roseanne Barr’s
racist fiasco was covered for days on CNN, but when someone is murdered, it is
only a five-minute blurb on the news.
Why does a tweet get more coverage than a human life?
In
gathering information from a variety of news sources, I pieced together the
story in its entirety, and presented it as a visual. This illustrated timeline serves to simplify
the events leading up to the incident, the murder, and the aftermath. Most people do not want to waste time reading
every article, and this presentation allows a quicker understanding of what
happened.
The
timeline is cut into four sections to sustain a decent resolution, and a full
timeline is posted at the end. All the
resources used in the making of this project are in the reference section at
the bottom.
Jennifer
Morrissey dropped out of high school in 9th grade due to bullying and then became
an exotic dancer – at age 15. Later on,
she became a motorcycle mechanic and still danced on the side. She suffered from depression and
post-traumatic stress disorder, and somewhere down the line she started abusing
heroin. Earlier this decade, she gave
birth to a baby boy.
Michael
McNew grew up in Hagerstown, Maryland.
His Alma mater was West Virginia University, and he went on to become a
District Sales Manager for AbbVie. He
was divorced with two adult children, both married. He had one grandchild, and toward the end of
his life, he learned that a second grandchild was on the way.
Morrissey
and McNew first bonded over their common interest, motorcycles. The young woman’s difficult past appealed to
him emotionally. They met in 2013, and she
moved in with McNew in January 2015.
Before deciding this living arrangement, she already had a violation of
probation in 2014 for drug charges, in which McNew paid bail. After moving in with him, Morrissey had hit a
bicyclist while driving McNew’s car in 2016.
McNew paid for the damages.
Within the same year, Jennifer had a friend over while McNew was not
home. The friend overdosed, and the
police got involved. There was probably
an ambulance, however sources had not mentioned it. It is unknown what order the 2016 incidents
occurred, since no dates were given, and running a search for the reported drug
overdose would be under the unidentified friend’s name.
Between
October 2013 and July 2017, Michael McNew had paid over $6,000 for court
costs relating to Morrissey’s growing criminal record. He paid in monthly increments.
My Analysis at this Point
It is
hard to tell who was controlling who at this point. Morrissey could have charmed the older gentleman
and used her rough past to gain his sympathy.
He may have felt compelled to support someone less fortunate. However, McNew could have been using money to
control her, in the sense of buying her.
Having a young, pretty girlfriend was ego-fuel, or he could have just
been lonely. That claim of loneliness
could be challenged, considering he had family.
The Philadelphia Inquirer said that he only paid court costs monthly,
“so that she would always come back.”
Regarding
Jennifer’s earlier years, whoever employed a 15-year-old to be a stripper
should have been arrested. These
sexualized experiences while underage could have significantly impacted her
adulthood in terms of drug use, among other adverse situations.
Her son
is hardly mentioned throughout the case.
Custody for the boy is unknown.
Is he with his father, his grandmother?
Did Bucks County Children and Youth take the boy away since she had a
heroin addiction?
Sources
say that Morrissey is from Doylestown, but her Facebook account indicates that
her hometown is Jersey City, NJ, which is also where her father lives according
to Whitepages.com. Interesting to note
is that under Life Events, in 2013, Morrissey realized that “im going to die
old and alone.” [sic]. It’s possible
that it was before she met Michael McNew?
Also
worth noting is that Morrissey’s beginning criminal record involved only minor
charges that would be non-reportable in a background check, but she is the one
who becomes a murderer. McNew had a DUI,
a reportable charge, which hardly affects his career since he wouldn’t have needed
a new job and was verging on retirement age.
In
2017, it became clear that Morrissey was having an affair behind McNew’s
back. On May 15, 2017, she changed her
Facebook relationship status to “Engaged to Chuck Ruthless Kudlow.” Philadelphia’s Most Wanted and the White
Pages spell it as Kulow, and Kudlow produces null results in the White
Pages. It is possible that he
intentionally misspells his surname to be harder to find on Facebook. It is also possible that Kudlow is an older
spelling that he prefers.
Charles
Kulow is a member of the Breed motorcycle gang.
His criminal record included assault, robbery, and drug charges. The Breed are a one percenter gang, which according
to their website means that they are not law-abiding like the other 99% of
motorcycle groups. Their page heralds
its arrested members, mostly for drug trafficking.
At the
end of July, McNew’s son and daughter-in-law visited before going on their
honeymoon. His son, Patrick McNew, later
told police that he witnessed them arguing.
Then a few days before the murder, Patrick saw Jennifer looking drunk
and disconnected.
The
subject of the argument was unknown, however McNew had been known to get
jealous, accusing Morrissey of cheating and always reminding her of her
financial dependency on him. For nearly
three years, he paid over $6,000 for her legal problems, and $24,000 was still
outstanding. Morrissey had only paid
$200 toward her court fees. The expenses
of managing her problems were weighing on him.
She was also dealing with heroin addiction, which he would discourage,
but he was also allegedly “buying her dope,” according to the Philadelphia
Inquirer.
August 6, 2017 – The Day of the Murder
On the
fatal day, both children of McNew exchanged their last text messages, not
knowing it was their last interaction with him.
Between
the evening hours of 7:00pm and 9:00pm, McNew and Morrissey had a fiery texting
argument. McNew had been consuming
alcohol at the time. There was no
complete account of the conversation available, so the sequence can only be
loosely inferred through the disclosed text messages.
Thanks to the following news sources, the puzzle pieces to
the conversation were available:
The Bucks County Courier Times, The
Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Post,
The Burlington County Times, ABC
News, and Patch.
Texting Turmoil
This is one possible
inference as to how the texting conflict unfolded:
-McNew confronts her about Kulow, calling him a “monster,”
and threatens to report him to the FBI.
-Morrissey says Kulow has abided his probation officer.
-McNew expresses love……and then, but you prefer Kulow.
-Morrissey probably got defensive.
-McNew asks her to come back and stay the night.
-She agrees.
-McNew continues to disparage Kulow,
-She defends him.
…….
-McNew then decides Morrissey is no longer welcome, and to
move her belongings to a storage unit,
paying the first two months.
-Morrissey starts making threats – don’t touch my stuff!
-McNew tells her to stay away and warns her that he is prepared to defend himself
-McNew tells her to stay away and warns her that he is prepared to defend himself
if she enters his house.
-Morrissey – I already
said I was coming over, you’re going to have to shoot me.
-McNew – threatens to shoot her.
Here are the quoted
texts in approximate order:
McNew: "I
wanted you to be with me forever. You chose not to. I can't compete with your love. […]
You have a new boyfriend now. […]
I have always loved you beyond your
imagination and mine, but you chose differently. And I guess 4 years with you is all a waste of
my time." (Vella, July 2018)
McNew: “I will never ever let myself be used like I
have by you again.” […] Then, McNew threatened to shoot “K.” (Menno, 30 Jan 2019)
…….
[McNew says he is going to put her possessions in a storage
locker with two month’s rent paid].
Morrissey: "You
have a choice: touch my stuff or I cut your throat." (ABC News, 2017)
McNew: said to “stay away,” and that he would “defend himself if she came into his home.”
McNew: said to “stay away,” and that he would “defend himself if she came into his home.”
(Swenson, 2019)
Morrissey: "Get the gun ready cause I'm coming, I already told you that I'll be there tonight”
Morrissey: "Get the gun ready cause I'm coming, I already told you that I'll be there tonight”
(Seymour, 2017)
Morrissey: “Guess you're just gonna have to shoot me."
(Seymour, 2017)
Morrissey: “I'm gonna stab ya." (Seymour, 2017)
Morrissey: "I'll gut you like I'm field dressing a
[expletive] deer." (Seymour,
2017)
[Some
texts were quoted by multiple sources: (Swenson, 2019), (Seymour, 2017),
(ABC News, 2017)].
McNew says he would shoot her if she entered his home,
calls her “unappreciative.” (Vella, July
2018)
[At some point, these texts were exchanged].
Morrissey texted that if McNew kept
complaining, “[You won’t] have to worry about leukemia killing you, because I
will put you in the [expletive] ground myself." (Vella, July 2018)McNew: "Well maybe that's better." (Vella, July 2018)
Morrissey: "It would be a lot quicker." (Vella, July 2018)
TheMurder
At
9:37pm, Jennifer Morrissey arrived at the Washington Crossing home, located on
River Road. She entered through the
garage by punching in the code. There is
no way to know exactly what transpired within the yellow house. Jennifer’s story kept changing. Theory 1 and subsequent variations are from
Morrissey’s multiple recants. Theory 2
is what the prosecution believed occurred.
Theory 1: McNew approached, holding the .380 Smith and
Wesson handgun. They struggled and the
gun went off, shooting McNew in the face.
1A: Morrissey arrived and McNew displayed a
gun. He asked, “Where’s your
boyfriend?” They wrestled on the
ground. McNew dropped the gun, and
Morrissey gained possession. She pushed
him onto the recliner. He lunged at her,
and then she shot him accidentally.
(Kimberly Wallace)
1B: When McNew pointed the gun, Morrissey knocked
it out of his hand. They struggled,
trying to get the gun. She pushed him
into the recliner. She tried to unload
the clip, and the gun discharged.
(Unnamed inmate)
Theory 2: McNew
fell asleep in the recliner after drinking.
Morrissey snuck into the house, and shot him with his own .380 Smith and
Wesson. She stole the gun and clip, and
had Kulow insure their destruction.
(Prosecuting attorneys)
Despite
the variations in Morrissey’s retelling, one part was consistent. After she shot Michael McNew, she panicked
and fled the crime scene.
Crime Coverup
Morrissey
immediately went to Kulow’s trailer in Bensalem, PA to consult him on what to
do. Kulow lived with a roommate, Jerry
Watson. Kulow advised her to return and
make sure that McNew was dead. He also
urinated on Morrissey’s hand to eliminate gun residue. The group discussed how to cover up the
crime. The first plan was to stage a
suicide, which was turned down in favor of simulating a robbery gone wrong.
Watson
and Morrissey returned to the murder scene, in which Watson was emotionally
jarred. Morrissey claimed there had been
a struggle, but nothing seemed to be in disarray. Watson later testified that her story just
“didn’t add up,” as reported by the Bucks County Courier Times.
Within the house, they stole
McNew’s laptop, watch, gun, and phone.
Morrissey was the one to turn out McNew’s pants pockets, since her
fingerprints were later discovered.
Watson exited the house moments before Morrissey. The cellphone was still powered on, so the
phone was tracked. They left the house
at 1:00pm, and they turned at an intersection in Yardley, PA at 1:34pm.
They
drove back to the trailer. They buried
the stolen items in a box, except for the gun.
The gun was not recovered.
Later
Morrissey went onto Facebook, and sent messages to McNew in attempts to sound
unaware of his death. According to New
Hope Free Press, she asked him about a doctor visit, and told him about
different colors she was considering for her motorcycle.
My Analysis at this Point
With
mounting court expenses in the thousands, it’s understandable for McNew be
frustrated with Morrissey. Moreover, his
claims that she was cheating seem credible from her Facebook life events. She had been engaged to another person in
2016; the short-term fiancé is unknown.
She had a relationship beginning in 2014, but that person could have been
McNew.
In the
texting tirade, McNew threatened to report Kulow to the FBI, but that is not
the way the FBI handles investigations.
They receive tips from citizens regarding current fugitives, but they do
not take reported crimes directly from individuals, with the exception of
cybercrimes. If someone has committed a
crime, a person files complaint with the local police first, and they decide
whether or not it needs to be forwarded to the FBI. McNew was unaware of Kulow’s involvement in
the Brian Jones murder, so the only matter to report was his gang affiliation,
which is not illegal. Morrissey seemed
to take the threat seriously.
Her
texts became violent right after he threatened to remove her belonging to a
storage unit. The most sensitive item
was her sister’s ashes, according to Kulow when he later testified. In my judgment, Kulow would be less credible
since he wants to defend her, however he knows her well enough to identify
specific personal belongings.
McNew’s
text messages involved love confessions, insults, pleading her to come home,
forbidding her to return, and threatening to kill her. He was drinking heavily during the texting
dispute, which could have contributed to his mixed signals. She did not know whether or not to come to the
house, or she wanted to settle the matter in person. Her threats put him on guard, anticipating
her arrival.
The
cellphone tower pinged her phone at 9:37pm at McNew’s GPS coordinates, but what
transpired can only be speculated. In
addition to Theory 1, I propose a third variation.
Theory
1C: Morrissey entered the
house. McNew pointed the gun at her,
fearing her violence or that Kulow accompanied her. As a reflex, she batted the gun out of his
hand, to protect herself. He was drunk,
and she was younger and more athletically built. She was able to obtain the gun. Pointing the firearm at him, she guided him
to the recliner to sort out the argument.
She wanted him to appease her demands.
Either he said no, or he made a bitter remark – and she shot him. She was shocked with what she just did, and
fled the scene to seek Kulow’s advice.
Debunking
Theory 2: After receiving death
threats via text message, McNew anticipated her arrival, since she said she was
coming home. He would be too agitated to
sleep. It’s true that older people fall
asleep earlier, especially after consuming alcoholic beverages. Though, if he were asleep, the garage door
would still rattle upon her punching the code.
Then, Morrissey would have to discover him sleeping before becoming
quieter. She would have to sneak
upstairs into his bedroom, get his gun, come back downstairs, and then shoot
him. The house is not new, so the
floorboards would have creaked. The
various noises would have woken him, and he would still be tired. He would have stirred and moved from the
recliner, changing the theoretical position where he would have been shot.
Michael McNew was murdered on a
Sunday, and his colleagues noticed his absence at work for two days. His manager tried calling him multiple times
– with no response. A close coworker,
Mary Ann Stockley, and her daughter drove to his house to check on him. According to the Washington Post, the door
was unlocked, and they soon discovered his lifeless body.
Stockley called 911. Police came and investigated. They found McNew’s rifle and 9mm handgun in
the master bedroom, but his registrations indicated a second pistol was
missing, and the caliber matched the bullet shell casings that were near the
recliner. They also found mail addressed
to Jennifer Morrissey. Eventually, a
dive team was dispatched in search of the murder weapon if it had been thrown
into the Delaware River.
Since
the mail showed that Morrissey was cohabiting with McNew, she was interviewed
by police. She claimed that she had not
gone to the Washington Crossing home since July 31, and that she had only lived
there for a few months.
On
August 24, 2017, Morrissey texted Kulow to start contacting her on her new
boost phone, an Android ZTE. She had already
deleted her damning conversations with McNew on the iPhone 6S that McNew had
bought her.
Deleting
text messages on one phone, sending pretentiously nice Facebook messages, and
faking surprise upon hearing the news of McNew’s death hardly hid her role in
the homicide. On September 29, 2017,
Jennifer Morrissey was charged with murder, burglary, tampering with evidence,
and possessing instruments of a crime.
Before that date, she was already in custody for violating her probation
again, regarding an unrelated incident.
Jennifer
Morrissey was held without bail at Bucks County Correctional Facility. Her preliminary hearing was on October 16,
2017. The recorded pre-trial hearing
replayed for journalists like Vinny Vella of the Philadelphia Inquirer to
quote. Vella relayed some of her
poignant arguments.
“If
it was planned out, I wouldn’t have had to come back a second time.”
“If I was there to
deliberately … kill him, I wouldn’t tell him, ‘I’m on my way.'”
Regarding the text
messages - “It was just the nastiest stuff I could think of.”
The
case was assigned to Judge Raymond F. McHugh with District Attorney Weintraub
and his team prosecuting the case. S.
Phillip Steinberg was appointed as Morrissey’s defense attorney.
At
some point while incarcerated, the county detective and local police tried to
coerce a confession in exchange for information about Morrissey’s aging dog,
who was taken to an animal shelter. Two
months before her trial, Morrissey’s appointed attorney motioned to dismiss the
case on the grounds of prosecutorial misconduct. Morrissey was entitled to have her attorney
present, and the interview was arranged in his absence.
While
in jail, Morrissey turned to her fellow inmates for advice on self-defense laws
and cellphone tower signaling. She
recanted the murder to several inmates, who would later be subpoenaed. Morrissey embraced her prison nickname,
Sugslayer, and even hashtagged it on an inmate’s birthday card. The Sug part is pronounced, shoug, as in
“Sugar,” meaning she slayed her sugar daddy.
The
inmates involved were Tracy Ward, Ashley Connor, and Kimberly Wallace. Wallace received the most information about
the incident, and Connor dubbed Morrissey with the nickname. One of Morrissey’s calls had already been
tapped and retained for court. She
prompted Ward to call Kulow to inform him that she signed two search
warrants. Making someone else’s phone
call was a violation of jail rules.
Kulow
was soon dealing with his own legal troubles.
In January 2018, he was charged with the murder of Brian Jones, aged 40,
which occurred back in November 2016.
Jones was allegedly impersonating a Breed member, and an altercation
turned deadly. Kulow was then taken into
custody until his trial.
My Analysis at this Point
Instead
of consulting her attorney on material sensitive to her case, she asked inmates
who are not legal experts. Nor do they
take the oath of confidentiality. It is
possible that Morrissey did not want to look guilty to her lawyer as to keep
him convinced of her innocence. With
less information, Steinberg was less aware of the whole situation.
The
Fifth Amendment empowers citizens not to speak and self-incriminate. She should not have disclosed any information
regarding her active case, however it is practically cliché in hear the oldest
question in jail, “What are you in for?”
Wallace’s
account of the murder retold was detailed enough to make you feel like you were
there. She was probably Morrissey’s
cellmate or closest friend in the women’s cellblock, or so the murderess
thought. Tracy and Ashley heard the
story too, and differences between the versions are suspicious, although
hindsight could be unclear in recalling the fatal struggle. Either that, or Morrissey can not remember a
lie properly.
The
Philadelphia Inquirer quoted her telling Wallace, “I wouldn’t let Ruthless go
down for this.” Yet in the police
interview, she initially pointed that McNew was in “fear of his life” from her
boyfriend, Ruthless, according to the Washington Post. Morrissey was open to lying to police about
the length of residency and her whereabouts on the date of the homicide, which
could easily be disproven with US Postal Service records and cellphone tower
signals; the latter caught her. Even if
her cellphone was turned off, license plate readers could detect her vehicle,
which is how Cosmo DiNardo was caught in July 2017, two months prior to
Morrissey’s arrest. With DiNardo’s
quadruple murder in the news, and the level of sophistication in homicide
investigation, one might think even an angry person would be dissuaded from killing someone. Was Morrissey following
the news, and was she affected by that case which shook the county? Whether or not she intended to kill, she was
unprepared. Most of her efforts were
channeled into covering up the crime.
Inclusive to revamping the crime scene to look like an armed burglary,
hiding the stolen items, deleting text messages, sending fake happy messages on
Facebook, and lying to police – only made her look more guilty. Covering up something could mean she had
something to hide. Although if it was
truly intended, she would have prepared more and had less backpedaling to do.
Telling
from her mugshot, she was most likely arrested at work, wearing her mechanic
uniform. In the next segment, she is
shown in a red jumpsuit. Having once
toured the county jail, I learned that common criminals wear yellow for men,
and red for women. The more dangerous, violent
inmates wear orange and are held in the restricted cellblocks. Given some thought, Morrissey wore red due to
her previous convictions being non-violent in nature. The skull tattoo on her left hand matches the
tattoo in one of her Facebook pictures.
The
county detective and police used her dog as a bargaining tool in coercing a
confession – not her kindergarten-aged son!
Custody and care for the boy would be more important considering no
child should be around a murderer.
Chances are the child is in the custody of her parents or the boy’s
father. However, they could possibly
threaten to deny contact with her child, considering she had a history of
heroin usage. Maybe there were other
unmentioned factors involved, so she could still legally contact her
child? So the only family member whose
custody they could threaten during an interrogation was her dog. The dog could still go to a family member and
has no bearing on the case.
Ashley
Connor gave the sticking name of Sugslayer, which sounds guilty to adopt,
however credible news sources have utilized the term, “slaying,” in place of words
like, murder or killing. The word, slay,
sounds like it glorifies the act.
Slaying is for dragons, not human beings!
As
reported from the Courier Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer, the trial for
Michael McNew’s murder was commenced on January 24, 2019. A jury was selected the day before. Opening arguments were presented, and the
aforementioned inmates testified on the second day. Tracy Ward was verging on tears as she
discussed the phone call, thinking she was helping someone. Kimberly Wallace testified that she had asked
Morrissey why she did not call the police, and Morrissey doubted the police
would have believed her. Ashley Connor
contradicted her testimony several times, as the prosecution pointed out. Defense attorney Steinberg discredited the
inmates’ testimonies, citing that they were motivated by shorter sentences and
special treatment. All three inmates,
especially Ward, countered that they were not receiving special treatment in
jail.
Forensic
pathologist Dr. Zhong Xu Hua had performed the autopsy and stated the victim’s
blood alcohol concentration was 0.179.
Dr. Hua also concluded upon examination of the body, the gun barrel had
been one inch from McNew’s face when it was discharged.
The
prosecution asserted that Morrissey was financially motivated, noting that
McNew had added her as a beneficiary for two of his insurance policies,
totaling over $360,000. Though, in a
recorded phone call, she denied ever knowing about those accounts and only
learned of it after his death.
Despite
having less sufficient information from his client, Steinberg was aggressive
and did everything in his power to battle the prosecution. Though, it mildly affected the verdict. On February 1, Jennifer Morrissey was found
guilty of first degree murder. She was
acquitted for the other three charges.
One month later, she was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
My Analysis Overall
Both
Jennifer Morrissey and Michael McNew made grave errors in their judgment. McNew could have called the police, knowing
ahead of time that a threatening, unwanted person was coming. When Morrissey saw the gun, she should have
exited the house immediately. Though she
had a fight response, not flight.
Retreating may seem weak to one who is linked to a motorcycle gang. McNew chose to rely on himself for
protection, using a gun in attempts to take control. These decisions were ego-driven, whereas
other decisions were emotionally rooted.
Considering
McNew was dealing with his girlfriend’s infidelity and a potential entanglement
with a motorcycle gang, this was no time to drink. It was no time to sleep, either. McNew may have turned to alcohol to quell his
emotions, and it’s feasible that he had an alcohol problem since he had a DUI.
Morrissey’s
emotions arose when her possessions were threatened, leaving a texting trail of
evidence. She was not problem solving or
thinking ahead, and she was emotionally unprepared the moment she committed
murder. If it was an accident, Morrissey
should have called 911 after the gun discharged, but she was too scared –
according to all three inmates. Her
flight reflexes kicked in, and she fled the crime scene. Overwhelmed by fear, retreating no longer
seemed like cowardice. Before the fatal
shot, there was a struggle for control, whether physical or materialistic
concerning possessions.
The
instrument of control was the gun, and Morrissey had advantages. She was 33, and McNew was 64 and
intoxicated. If a physical altercation
did occur, then it would have been easy for her to get the upper hand.
Michael
did not foresee this morbid turn of events when he allowed Morrissey to move
into his house in2015. Some of their
errors were poor long term decisions.
For Jennifer, it was dropping out of high school and starting
heroin. For McNew, it was becoming a
sugar daddy and taking home a stripper.
What brought them together, enough to have her change her address?
Both
loved motorcycles, took risks, and had substance abuse problems. Both had a wild side, whether pretentious or
genuine. Morrissey liked criminally
fertile environs like the strip club and hanging out with gang members. McNew allegedly met Morrissey at her strip
joint; he also collected guns. Risky
activities like motorcycle riding bonded them.
What broke that bond was their mutual trait of aggression. They both were more likely to fight than
settle matters legally.
It
is still hard to distinguish who was the more manipulative person. Defense attorney Steinberg described McNew as
abusive, jealous, and keeping Morrissey financially dependent on him. McNew may have used a naïve, younger woman to
be his trophy just to feed his ego. However,
Morrissey seems sociopathic in her ability to seduce or invoke pity in order to
gain financial support. She also
convinced Tracy Ward to break prison rules to do her a favor.
If both the perpetrator
and the victim were manipulative, the former was proven to be more
deceitful. Morrissey could exploit
others to get what she wanted, whether it was a phone call, a new cellphone, or
money for her court obligations. It is
possible she convinced McNew to buy her drugs.
Aside from drugs, it is also possible that he willfully doted on her,
and she did not know about the insurance policies. The gift giving could have been an attempt to
buy her. Still, even with a shower of
presents, Morrissey had no remorse in cheating on McNew twice while using him
as a financial cushion. Additionally, Morrissey
changed her murder story a few times between different inmates. Either she was incomplete in detailing it, or
she was forgetting lies. Sociopath is not
a term to throw around, but she had some anti-social qualities.
At the end of the
trial, she was found guilty of murder, but acquitted for the other
charges. She was acquitted for burglary,
logically since she was still a resident.
They never found the murder weapon, so they could not prove she was in
possession of the instrument of crime.
She tampered with the crime scene, but the evidence was left. She only added evidence in attempting to
cover up the crime.
McNew is
unconditionally innocent, but if Morrissey were the one killed in the
altercation, guilt and innocence would be switched. It would be an entirely different story. However, McNew was murdered, and his mistakes
are forgiven. Morrissey’s actions are on
record forever. Competing for dominance
can be overrated when battles are not chosen wisely, because the winner in a
fight becomes the loser in the media.
© 2019 Caroline Friehs
Drafted: April 14,
2019
Completed: May 4, 2019
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