Why Cynthia Sommer is guilty in my opinion

[kellabeck]

Her defense was that she loved Todd, her knight in shining armor, the love of her life! She would never have killed him! She was so grief-stricken when he died that she could barely get out of bed. She had a tattoo put on her arm in his honor. She would call his cell phone obsessively just to hear the sound of his voice in his outgoing message.

That was the picture the defense wanted the jury to believe. But it was not reality.

Todd a healthy young man became violently ill, syptomatic of arsenic poisoning, just days after his trust fund ran out. Cyndy oddly phoned Todd's mother to tell her about his illness, imo, to set up his death, something only she knew was coming.

And that day despite their financial picture, Cynthia went to see a cosmetic surgeon about unneccessary cosmetic surgery that they could not afford. And later lied to LE about it.

The early morning that Todd died, Cynthia pretended to do CPR on him. That's what the tape of her sounded like to me and is corroborated by the position of his body when EMTs arrived and the testimony that she was not giving CPR when they entered the room. In addition, she told the 911 operator that she knew how to do CPR and yet on the stand she said she didn't really. So why tell the operator she could? The operator could have instructed her. The tape of her phony CPR is the single most damning piece of evidence to me. And for which there is no innocent explanation.

In addition the ER doctor said Todd's body was cool and his skin was mottled and she believed he had been dead longer than he was claimed to be by Cyndy. I believe she waited till he was good and dead before calling for help.

Her demeanor:
all about the money--comment about $ to the EMTs, her concern with money while still in the hospital, her questions about $ to his family within hours of his death
stopping for cigarettes on the way to hospital
telling Susan Beach that morning she was over it already
celebratory partying
telling her MIL to "MYOB!"
Her reading on the stand Todd's valentine, his last to her, within days of his death and she read it like it was a grocery list.

the tattoo --- in which "Semper Fi" was the dominant motif and two other guys got equal billing with Todd showed how meaningless he was to her

Her emails to Ross, which she tried to deny on the stand, in which she tells him she couldn't see herself 5 years with Todd belies her bogus defense.

Her LIE on the stand about Todd's cell phone. She gave it to her daughter and they were phoning each other. Cyndy was NOT calling to listen to T's voice.

Her computer when she was arrested she claimed was the one she had when Todd was alive. Only it was manufactured after he died. So she LIED about that computer, a computer that hadn't been paid for yet. Why lie? Why trash a computer unless the hard drive is full of incriminating searches. Where's the computer, Cyndy? Why did you lie about it?

Todd's liver and kidney had levels of arsenic consistent with poisoning. Only one person had the motive and opportunity and arsenic is common enough to acquire so the means were available.

So in my opinion she is guilty and I hope a second jury will agree with me as the first one did.

She had her opportunity to tell her story on the stand. I did not find her in the least credible. She's a narcissistic, sociopathic cold blooded killer in my opinion.

Had Todd's death been regarded as suspicious from the start as it should have been and investigated, there would have been even more evidence.

[johnielee333]

cynthia is innocent IMO

[RayStar]

Originally Posted by johnielee333

cynthia is innocent IMO

YES

FREE CYNDI NOW

[kellabeck]

And in my opinion, based on the evidence, she is guilty.

Her behavior is inconsistent with innocence. I don't know how you can just dismiss her lies, her incredibility on the stand or her bogus CPR.

[RayStar]

Really so good we can type our opinions, however the one that ""SPEAKS"" the loudest and clearest is ''THE JUDGE''.

FREE CYNTHIA SOMMER

[kellabeck]

The jury agreed with me.

[sanneke]

Originally Posted by kellabeck

The jury agreed with me.

I agree with you also.

[RayStar]

Originally Posted by sanneke

I agree with you also.

Read up. HERE COMES THE JUDGE LOL

[Topaz]

I really think that trial in Calif was very very biased.

I was horrified when Cynthia was convicted. It looked like a nightmare to
me. And her defense attorney gave me the willies. I think he is past his prime and needs to retire now. At least he came back and acknowledged that
he did not try at all.

The fact that Todd was at a toxic waste dump just before he became sick, and the total lack of evidence (viable evidence) just floored me.

I am glad she was given another chance and trial. As that unfolds I will watch
carefully and remain open. But so far she seemed to be Not Guilty to me.
And this remains the only NG for me on any trial in the past 3 yrs. Most of them ended up Guilty for me by the end. But not this one!

[kellabeck]

Topaz, keep in mind that neither of the other marines at the base became ill, and that his symptoms were of ACUTE ARSENIC POISONING not CHRONIC which would be from attenuated exposure to a tainted location.

He exhibited signs of acute arsenic poisoning and 10 days later he died with arsenic in his liver and kidneys.

I thought Udell was horrible but I also thought he had a loser of a case. The "knight in shining armor" defense? Putting his client on the stand and NEVER asking her if she killed her husband??

She's guilty. And I note that no one has taken on Cyndy's lies and given an innocent explanation for things for which there is no innocent explanation.