Comments by "Glamdolly" (@glamdolly30) on "Farris Family Testimony: Who Shot Gary? | Burn Pile Murder Trial" video.
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Exactly, Vinnie clearly hasn't been following this case at all, he's totally clueless about the facts and the various players. Fact is, no family member but Melody had any motive to kill Gary - she was his wife of 38 years and in line to get the whole $4.5 million estate, as she knew. None of their kids would get a cent if he died!
She was also having a hot and heavy affair, and they'd talked of marriage. She couldn't stand her husband Gary, they lived in separate parts of the house, she had betrayed him umpteen times with various affairs, and spending outrageous amounts of money.
She is a vile, greedy, self-centred woman and 3 of her 4 kids believe her capable of murdering their dad. That is all powerful evidence of her guilt - and I haven't even got onto the forensics!
So what if Scott said he'd seen burning bodies in Iraq, and so believed it was one? Doesn't mean he put it there! In fact it was Melody who mentioned the body first (pretending she'd just noticed it). She asked Scott if he'd thrown a goat on the fire. I think that's a REALLY weird comment, and horribly offensive when she knew it wasn't a goat laying there, but her husband!
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@BLUEEYESLIKETHEOCEAN-ql8kw If Melody shot Gary out at the fire pit, why is his blood - and a bullet fragment - plus evidence of blood clean-up, present inside the house? (Melody even visited Target the following day to buy more house cleaning products, as listed on an itemised till receipt).
The forensic evidence tells the story - Gary was shot inside the house, and his body taken outside to the fire pit. Besides, Melody would not have dared fire a gun outside, at around 10pm, with the attention/questions that could attract. Bad enough that someone heard two shots fired from inside her home at that time (more evidence it happened indoors), but clearly the noise wasn't loud/obvious enough to warrant further investigation by that witness.
Melody made sure she was alone that afternoon/evening (even refusing a requested sleepover from one of her granddaughters - who she never refused). She had decided Gary had to go, and when Melody makes her mind up, there's no shifting her. I don't know how she got her 300 lbs hubby's lifeless body from the house to the fire pit, but I have no doubt she achieved it. Adrenaline is a powerful energiser!
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Vinnie hasn't been paying attention to this murder trial if he thinks it's 'Complicated', 'Different people have different motives', 'It's all over the place', and 'It's not easy for the jury'. Huh?! Has he been watching the same court case?!
In fact it's pretty simple. The defendant Melody Farris is the ONLY family member with a motive to kill Gary Farrer. She and she alone stood to inherit his $4.5 million estate - as his wife of 38 years it all automatically went to her on his death, along with a hefty life insurance payout, and their four kids would not get a look in! In addition Melody was having a hot and heavy affair with a man who'd discussed marriage with her. Motive was strong for her to want hubby gone!
Melody was the only person present at the location of her husband's murder, at the relevant time (cellphone records - BOOM!), plus there are indications she borrowed the murder weapon from a relative. It's only too obvious why prosecutors honed in on her exclusively!
Forensic evidence of a post-murder clean-up inside the marital home (Gary's blood and a bullet fragment), plus a Walmart receipt for cleaning materials purchased on a shopping trip Melody made alone the day after, are powerfully incriminating.
Testimony from multiple witnesses, some of whom have no 'dog in the race', paint a grim picture of the defendant's character and the marriage. Money and material possessions were Melody's obsessions, and along with her multiple affairs with different men, big sources of friction in the marriage. Love had left their relationship many years before. Melody's affairs seemed to get more intense in her middle age - to the embarrassment and anger of not only her husband, but her four adult children too.
Melody actually left Gary for another man at one point. She returned to their home a few months later and the marriage resumed, with no discussion about the crisis, or indeed, any explanation or apology from Melody. Naturally this created major unspoken resentments within the family, and Gary's trust in his wife was irreparably broken. It also prompted him to tighten the purse strings and cut up his wife's credit card. His response to her infidelity was to control her by financial means - and she hated it. She is a woman who spends lavishly, as photos of their palatial home decor confirms.
After that affair, Melody and Gary were a couple in name only, living and sleeping in separate parts of the house. Melody positively flaunted her next affair with a man called Rusty, the not-so-secret relationship she was having at the time of her husband's murder.
Around a year before he died, she had invited Rusty to their daughter's big society wedding. She shamelessly kissed, danced, cuddled and canoodled with him in front of all the guests (as could be seen on multiple photos of the wedding dance floor, shown at trial). Gary kept his cool in public, but was secretly seething, and later told his kids: "That's the last time she embarrasses me like that". He was correct, it would be the last time, but for tragic reasons he could not have predicted.
The defence attempt to frame the victim's son Scott for the murder, despite his clear lack of motive to kill his dad (and indeed zero evidence he did it), smacks of desperation. No wonder the attorneys seem half-hearted in their delivery - they know jurors are highly unlikely to buy what they're selling!
In fact Scott, who lived and worked on his parents' farmstead after a military career, stood to lose the most from his dad's death - his home and his job. In common with his older brother Chris and sister Emily, his relationship with his mother was strained. Without his dad's patronage, she was unlikely to continue the arrangement his generous father had set up. Gary's death left Scott very vulnerable - and as with all the children, no financially better off, as the entire estate went to Melody.
All four of the children gave evidence, and all four showed authentic, heart-breaking grief when discussing their father's violent murder and squalid end, his body destroyed on a fire pit. They loved him, and though there's a three-to-one split with Chris, Scott and Emily opposing Melody, against the youngest child Amanda who supports her and testified for the defence, they are united in grief at the loss of their dad and the ruination of their family. I cannot imagine jurors believing any one of Gary's children capable of killing him.
Amanda is the only child to remain loyal to her mother, and to believe in her innocence (though her answers on the stand about that were cagey to say the least). This is a sad case of a narcissistic parent manipulating an emotionally needy child. Bad enough that Melody robbed her kids of their loving father, but in addition she's divided those siblings, by adopting Amanda as her personal confidante, cheerleader and spy.
Amanda as a result is estranged from the brothers and sister whose support she (and they) need more than ever, since the murder. The older siblings have reluctantly recognised their mother's guilt in their father's murder. They've seen a ton of evidence, throughout their lives, of her callous contempt for him, her repeated betrayals, and the way she prioritises money and possessions over people. Her ruthless treatment of her kids was a regular theme running through even the loyal Amanda's evidence.
Sadly Amanda is in denial about the depths of her mother's depravity, and her status as her dad's killer. I hope the inevitable Guilty verdict will ultimately move the siblings on, and prompt healing. Their dad Gary would not have wanted his beloved kids to be estranged because of his murder by their mother. The toxic, destructive Melody has done quite enough damage to people she claimed to love. When justice is served and she's locked in the cage she will die in, I pray the rest of this emotionally battered and bruised family can start the long road to recovery, as I'm sure their dad would want for them.
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