In reality he probably either did it or was there and fled when she made good on her threat to suicide.
I thought he was a creep from the start. Smarmy. Slimy. Greasy redneck small town southern politician. He was carrying on with this woman in a very public manner, disgracing his wife and family in the process. A flora bama regular if that says anything. Very easy to hate.
Her I didn't know much about other than she was willing to whore herself in public with this skeezy fucktard. But when she died natural sympathy went to her because he was just such a repulsive creature.
After seeing her drama whore chipmunk munchkin sister, though, and after seeing her "came down from the hills in a hoverround" mother, and after hearing their drama? The dead one probably had multiple screws loose. Likely a high maintenance drama queen.
Still think he's scum. But not as convinced he killed her as I was before.
She had LOTS of screws loose. I think she lost it and did it. All of the facts (to me) pointed to her doing it. All of the emotional rhetoric was coming from the "he murdered her" side. You're right, hes a scumbag, but that doesn't prove anything. There wasn't ONE fact that any of her family could point out that would indicate a murder. All emotion. And at the end, I think the Prosecutor lady (Dixon I think) summed it up well, paraphrasing "no one wants to believe their loved one would kill themselves, some times for religious reasons". Downs' family was almost in denial that it could happen. They didnt want to believe that their squiggy relative would off herself. Although they didn't seem to care to explain why she whored around with a married sleazebag and take script cocktails.
Some key things:
- he had no blood on him or his car (hard to stage a bloody scene without this happening)
- she had attempted suicide before a couple of times
- she had multiple scripts in her blood (2 of them were head meds, she was prob in a volatile state)
- her family couldn't seem to grasp that is was not Nodine's job to prove suicide but the State's job to prove murder
- the first prosecutor was an absolute joke and indicted him for political reasons KNOWING and ADMITTING she had no evidence tying him to a murder and hinging her whole case against him on the way Downs' hair fell to the ground - FAIL.
- the gun was hers...and loaded already