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Lady In The Harbor

January 27, 2009 4:20 AM

In Full: A "CSI" actress becomes a real-life murder victim, and the search for justice is pure Hollywood. Erin Moriarty reports.

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by cynen August 2, 2009 11:14 AM EDT
In response to the above message posted by jenny7334.
You need to rethink and focus on the essence of the trial...it was NOTto determine the degree of trauma imposed on the lives of the daughter and father by the victim, .. it was MURDER!!!
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by jenny7334 June 14, 2009 8:01 PM EDT
It amazes me that educated people could think that this young girl is a cold blooded murderer. The true vicitms of this story are the husband and daughter of an alcoholic woman. She was mentally and verbally abusive to the two people that she should have loved and cared for. I am the child of an alcololic father, who has since past away. I was fortunale enough that it was my father, not my mother, who was the alcoholic. Every daughter needs her mother to guide and support her throughout her life, to be a role model and someone she can turn to, obviously what this young girl was lacking throughout the most important years in her young life.
I think that she more than likely played a bigger role in her mother's murder than she is willing to admit. But this story never told the trauma, hurt or dispare that Rachael must have felt growing up with an alcoholic, unstable and unpredictable mother.
As a child of an alcoholic, she was probably looking for love and affection in the wrong places and ended up with an abusive and controlling boyfriend and reacted to her mother's drunken scene of showing up at his family home, with rage.
I don't condon what she did but I can understand the anger and resentment she must have felt with her mother's behaviour. The woman was a verbally abusive drunk, with concern only for herself that she would be left alone if Rachael married Ian.
This young girl was a vicitm of her mother's addiction. It is a sad ending to a troubled family,
I don't feel that this girl is the manipulative killer that the prosecution portrays, but a girl who lacked the ability to have emotion for the one person in her life that she should have been able to rely upon and trust.
The biggest punishment is that she will have to live with her actions for the rest of her life.
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by Wendyjog June 7, 2009 6:13 AM EDT
"...focused on herself."

What *********. Of course the child is focused on herself. She's a child.
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by AGloriaKrisko May 13, 2009 4:52 PM EDT
I noticed something she said a little telling. On the stand she said that she had heard a bit commotion in her mom's room & that's why she went in to see what was going on. In an earlier interview she stated that the reason she went into her mothers room was because she heard her mother screaming for her!!!!! A little 'commotion' & your mother screaming your name are 2 very different things!!!! I think she is getting her story screwed up because she didn't actually NEED to run to her mothers bedroom because SHE WAS ALREADY IN THERE KILLING HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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by mauiswift May 6, 2009 9:26 PM EDT
This girl really thinks she is fooling people, it is clear she is lying, her actions don't add up. Her motive to kill her is unknown, but it is clear that this family was dysfunctional, many are, but most people don't kill.
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by dq1614 May 4, 2009 6:13 PM EDT
Very manipulative girl. I feel sorry for her dad who is clearly in alot of pain because of this tragedy. But I can't say at all that I feel sorry for Rachel or Ian. Just for the families that they have destroyed.
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by centeroftheflame March 31, 2009 7:52 PM EDT
Indeed sad, but watching the beginning of this story and the interview of this young lady struck me that she had something to do with it before ever knowing that she was a suspect. Later in the film when they turned their attention to Rachel and Ian I felt relief.
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