Dead on the couch

[Kat]

A&E show on "Stacey Lannert" case. She killed her father while he was on the couch. Shot him. 1990. I think she was 18.

I'm writing in terse sentences because it's on right now.
Her affect is very bland. (During the walk-through the next day at the scene).
She claims abuse.

[theebmonique]

Kat...I am catching the last 20 minutes. What a story ! I hope A&E repeats this show...


Tracy...

[Kat]

http://www.aetv.com/tv/shows/amerjustic ... d=13001825

Here is the link to the story at "American Justice."
Her story changed constantly.
Her sister may have conspired with her- but now, 10 years later, the sister is backing up Stacey's newsest version of events.

To see that father dead and bloody on the couch was weird!

[Allen]

I think I have seen that case. Doesn't she claim her father sexually abused her? I think she claimed what pushed her over the edge was her father had began to sexually abuse her sister, and told her she was Stacey's replacement? She seemed so lifeless and emotionless when she talked about it. Even when they showed the video of her reenacting the scene for the police she seemed almost in a daze, well to me anyway. She had to be in shock. Can't victims of sexual abuse develop the ability to disassociate themselves from tramatic situations as a defence mechanism? But it was a very interesting case. That picture of the father on the couch was something Kat, I agree. I think the defense tried to claim she did it for the money, because she supposedly bragged about it to some friends. But that could be another case I am thinking about.It's been awhile since I've seen it.

[Kat]

She did talk about the money her father recently inherited. She also did a bit of forgery and went on a spending spree prior to his killing to the tune of $5000. She told her friends she would get a lot of money and she also tried to hire a hit-man.
She bought bullets and she and her sister practiced shooting and then she claimed a sort of self-defense after admitting shooting her father twice.
I would have liked to see more forensic work done on the case so the mechanics of the killing could be explained to me, rather than just Stacey's confession.

The main point is, if she was sexually abused, as she claims, notice she killed at 18, which is about the right age for that kind of rage to appear.
Lizzie was so much older- so I don't know if abuse can figure into her motive.

[joe]

Andrée thinks that she was abused. I thought she was lying about it. So was her sister. Surely, somebody should have been told about it if it were true. Seems to me the motive was money as the prosecution showed. I found a link to a book Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England by Louise A. Jackson. Here's a link: http://www.childrenuk.co.uk/choct/bookr ... xabuse.htm
Joe

[Allen]

Sexually abused children do not always speak out and tell what is happening to them. For varying reasons. They may be embarrassed about what is going on, and may think they will be looked upon as dirty if they tell.They may not want to have to share the traumatic details. Or, they may think they will be blamed for what happened themselves. Which, sadly, does happen in some instances no matter how unfair or unthinkable that may seem. Or the abuser may make physical threats of what will happen if they are exposed. There is even a mind set that can occur in some abused children that makes them feel almost as if they need to protect the abuser. I cannot say for sure I think Stacey was sexually abused, as I can only go by what I saw awhile ago on that show. But I think my feeling was that it was possible.But, if she was, it's not inconceivable for it to have gone on undetected. I haven't looked at the link yet, but I will do that later when I have more time to read. And I do not speak from an outsiders point of view on this issue.

[Kat]

It's a tough call. I admit to being less likely to believe a sexual abuse story merely on someone's word. The word on either side. The Menedez brothers were a factor in my now suspicious mind, also the Martin Day Care scandal.
I would require a medical exam, a long interview with a professional and a polygraph and/or voice stress test.
Forensics in the home where the father was killed is my first preference.

The girl, interviewed for the show from jail, still seemed flat most of the time while describing her abuse story. However, I realized it had been edited. But the time she first seemed upset was in talking about her mother. I'm not sure if this shows the girl is upset at a feeling of her mother "abandoning" her and her sister or if she has issues of trying to get her mother's attention, or mad at her mother if abuse was happening and the mother looked the other way.
Apparently the girl lived with her mother by choice when the woman remarried- but then chose to move back with her father.

She might be playing some mysterious game- but one has to ask "Why?'

Thanks for the link, Joe. I read the review.

[Nancie]

Interesting stuff. But I like the Subject Line best,
"terse" is a good way to put it Kat!