Comments on: 48 Hours Mystery: Point Blank

Did A Man's Obsession With His Wife Lead To His Death?

[drdavedmd]

People!!!!! Wake up and smell the coffee, will you????? This case is far from a maytery.... to me, and to everyone who has half a brain, this is murder in the first degree, period. I would NOT have even filed into the jury room to deliberate.... I would have just looked at each of the jury members and gave them a nod to throw her in prison for the rest of her life.

I can guarantee that Traci''s relationship with her new boyfriend was sexual. They just agreed to tell the police that it wasn''t sexual and that they were just hanging around together.... yeah, right.... just hanging around together makes her have a motive to kill her husband..... yeah, OK.....

[mistermal1]

This sort of verdict could only happen in Brownsville. This type of compromised investigation is par for the course in Brownsville. If you want verdicts that will leave you shaking your head, Brownsville''s your town. If you want to see police, sheriff, and city government knee-deep in corruption, head on down to this border town. No real surprises in this case, not to the locals at least.

[tbweb]

I can prove that the Republicans are making fools out of the Blacks.

Posted by truthyness at 01:43 AM : May 18, 2008,,,

Posters like you are lost, off course, drowning in your own misguided racial hatred and need to find a way back to sanity! Posters like you are out of balance and have lost your American way! Posters like you should measure these candidates and their Party platforms by American standards, American criteria, American goals and on issues that affect and impact American life. Life is too short, discussing candidates who don''t rise to the level of being true Americans is a waste of time, if these candidates commit the offenses you speak of or do deeds that offend, then ignore them, don''t vote for them, you keep them alive by discussing them, you breath life into them and their campaigns by always talking about them. You are a form of unpaid advertising for them, the best way to make them go away is to ignore them, they will die off from their own negative weight. The expression "cream rises to the top applies", the best will take care of itself.

[armortiz2005]

Her and her boyfriend probably planned it together.She probably hit him in the eye with the gun-while he was asleep,drops the gun and holster,realizing she couldn''t do it, that ;s why blood was on the end of the gun and on the floor by the bed,but it didn''t kill him, so she takes a shower while her boyfriend finished it off shooting him in the head using a pillow.And he takes off.Ten days later they talk about the murder at the hotel and probably make plans to stay away from eachother till things cool down.Could they still get the boyfriend for the murder?Investigaters should have checked the phone calls made around that time to see if she called him to finish it off.The blood stain said ALOT to ME. Very upsetting true story.

[tomcrews1]

WHAT A TRAVESTY! This is another example of a woman getting away with murder. Typical lame Texas jury. The same state that found a woman who murdered 5 babies in a bathtub not guilty of anything! And these holier than thou types talk about backward practices in Arab countries. Paleez. The only country in the world that a person can be convicted of 1st degree murder and serve 3 days in jail b/c "nothing can bring the man back...that woman done belongs with her chillren." Pathetic backward rubes down there.

[kai1288]

I am just getting so sick and tired of the substandard, lazy manner in which the police handles potential crime scenes, and go about collecting evidence. It''s high time that better, stricter procedures be undertaken at the onset of anything that remotely appears to be a crime (suicide, accident, seizures etc). Photographs need to be taken (let a photographer drive around with paramedics--perhaps an intern) right away; paper gowns and shoes should be worn by the investigators; complete fingerprinting should be done EVERYWHERE; testing for gunshot residue should be done on everyone in the vicinity of the crime; different crime scenarios should be created and studied; plus more. I mean it is no wonder that many people go free because of a lack of substantial evidence THAT MAKES SENSE--is missing, or innocent people go to prison because of overwhelming false, circumstantial evidence. This really has to stop. Increasingly, jurors appear confused, or worse, they make decisions based on their own personal feelings rather than on the basis of facts, only to read about some innocent person being freed after 30 years in jail. The justice system is just topsyturvey and needs a major overhaul. We simply should not put up with this slipshod way of solving crimes.

And no, my opinion isn''t derived from watching too much CSI.

[smueabs]

What about the palm print on the gun? That was never explained. They said it wasn''t hers, his or the detective''s.

[shrimpstew]

Why in the world would she appeal? Take the probation and run! Sixty years in a jail cell is a lot worse than an eight o''clock curfew! I agree about the nonexistent tears.

[smueabs]

I agree about the crying... she seemed to be faking that. Also, why would he put a pillow over his head? Why would he kill himself the DAY after telling her he was seeking custody of the children? The man may have been controlling and paranoid like their friends said, but she still managed to sneak around with another man. The one thing she has in her favor is that he was alive when she called 911, so it was treated as an emergency situation and not a crime scene. As police and paramedics came in and out, the scene was compromised. The one thing that shocked me was that she didn''t perform first aid. She claimed to be "in shock," but, as a nurse, she has probably seen worse situations. If my mother or boyfriend were in a similar state, I would do anything to save him or her, despite the blood and shcok. The evidence is lacking, but the motive is crystal clear: she knew he would drag her through nasty custody hearings and she just wouldn''t have it.

[smueabs]

Yes, she''s appealing, but I think that''s kind of interesting seeing that she could face another trial if the verdict is overturned

[carboss93]

DID SHE APPEL I MIST WHAT IT SAID AT THE END