Anna Nicole's Death

[Maxt]

I have to admit this story has taken up a large part of the news and a lot of my attention this week. This is very sad but true and a valuable lesson could be learned from all of this. I have a really good idea that Anna Nicole died from a drug overdose but we must see when the toxicology report and everything else comes out. I do not think she did a whole lot of bad to anyone else other than herself or her son but that case in itself is still under investigation. The irony is even though Anna Nicole's schtick if you will seemed to be a self-parody there seems to be some kind of common thread to the Marilyn Monroe story and even to some extent the tragic story of Jayne Mansfield. My only hope now is for the future the baby will end up in good hands either in the case of the paternal father whoever he may be (?) or the maternal grandmother in Texas? DNA testing to ascertain the true identity of the father should commence as soon as possible!

[Duckbump]

I think this is such a tragedy. She was so beautiful and healthy at one time. She just went downhill from there. My heart completely goes out to her family and friends, and especially her newborn daugther.

[John Stutz]

O.J. should be taking notes on this one. For starters, at least there was a respectable motive here -- $474M and posession of a $1M mansion (which sure beats jealousy as a motive). And if you're going to commit two murders, this is how it's done (note the lack of a blood trail leading from the scene of the crime directly to the murderer's home).

I hope Johnny Cochran has cleared his schedule. My guess is that we'll be treated to our first "trial of the century" in a short while. Hmmmm, I wonder if it was the butler, Hugh Heffner, or could it possibly be the father of her child (who coincidentally will inherit control of her entire fortune). Now that's going to be a tough puzzle to decipher. Whoever it was, he sure wasted no time.

[CalJoe]

O.J. should be taking notes on this one. For starters, at least there was a respectable motive here -- $474M and posession of a $1M mansion (which sure beats jealousy as a motive). And if you're going to commit two murders, this is how it's done (note the lack of a blood trail leading from the scene of the crime directly to the murderer's home).

I hope Johnny Cochran has cleared his schedule. My guess is that we'll be treated to our first "trial of the century" in a short while. Hmmmm, I wonder if it was the butler, Hugh Heffner, or could it possibly be the father of her child (who coincidentally will inherit control of her entire fortune). Now that's going to be a tough puzzle to decipher. Whoever it was, he sure wasted no time.
A respectable motive? Pretending to be in love with a 91 year old tycoon at the age of 26 so that you can dupe him and his family out of his fortune is a respectable motive? At least a prostitue doesn't pretent to be in love with her john, as opposed to Anna, who was a money slobbering, lying slut.

And for your information, Johnny Cochran passed away. Maybe Anna's pimp,,,, errr, I mean boyfriend the lawyer can defend her name in absentia. As for O.J., yeah he got away with murder, but so did Klansmen in the south that murdered countless African-Americans for just being black, and they always got off by being acquitted by all-white juries. The black community just sucked it up and got over it, and I suggest you do the same, and stop whining about O.J. It's history, and nothing's going to change it.

[John Stutz]

A respectable motive? Pretending to be in love with a 91 year old tycoon at the age of 26 so that you can dupe him and his family out of his fortune is a respectable motive? At least a prostitue doesn't pretent to be in love with her john, as opposed to Anna, who was a money slobbering, lying slut. No, no, no. The motive for the murder... not on Anna's part... but on the individual's part who [I presume we will soon discover] murdered her.

There stands to be an individual who will assume control over her sizeable assets once he can establish that he fathered her child. And it takes little ingenuity to link the two together. Giving, what I termed, a "respectable motive".

What Anna did with the tycoon was not at all respectable -- though you still have to give her some credit for pulling it off.

As for O.J., yeah he got away with murder, but so did Klansmen in the south that murdered countless African-Americans for just being black, and they always got off by being acquitted by all-white juries. The black community just sucked it up and got over it, and I suggest you do the same, and stop whining about O.J. It's history, and nothing's going to change it.A little touchy on the O.J. issue are we? I was merely drawing an analogy to what was the most famous trial of our generation. I think we'll be seeing another of its ilk rather shortly. O.J. never was a trial of race for me, only one of extreme carelessness -- from committing the crime to prosecuting it. I personally don't see how this one trial can be thought to represent all crimes committed by or against black individuals in the past. This trial stands on its own as a representation of our failed justice system, irrespective of race.

[CalJoe]

No, no, no. The motive for the murder... not on Anna's part... but on the individual's part who [I presume we will soon discover] murdered her.

There stands to be an individual who will assume control over her sizeable assets once he can establish that he fathered her child. And it takes little ingenuity to link the two together. Giving, what I termed, a "respectable motive".

What Anna did with the tycoon was not at all respectable -- though you still have to give her some credit for pulling it off.

A little touchy on the O.J. issue are we? I was merely drawing an analogy to what was the most famous trial of our generation. I think we'll be seeing another of its ilk rather shortly. O.J. never was a trial of race for me, only one of extreme carelessness -- from committing the crime to prosecuting it. I personally don't see how this one trial can be thought to represent all crimes committed by or against black individuals in the past. This trial stands on its own as a representation of our failed justice system, irrespective of race.
Thank you for clarifying your position on all issues, though I might add that the O.J. case cannot be singularly focussed on as THE preimminent miscarriage of justice. This country's criminal trial history is dotted with a myriad of O.J type cases, though they lacked the publicity, because of the lack of mass communication we now have. The trial of Emmitt Till's murderers comes to mind as a definitive miscarriage of justice back in 1956, a trial whose outcome was so outrageous people still talk about it 50 years later.

[John Stutz]

You are very correct and well informed indeed. Being the lesser informed of the two, I opted to draw comparison to a trial like O.J.'s given the double-murder similarity. Plus it's most prominent in pop culture, as are say Michael Jackson's and Robert Blake's.

The reason I commented in the first place is because I believe (based on vague circumstantial opinions) that Anna and her son were unfortunate victims of a double murder to reap the $474M prize. We shall sooner or later see how this plays out. It appears though that this potential criminal was a bit more clever than others of the past. Had he been a little more patient, it may not have been so painfully obvious. As it stands though, two mysterious back-to-back deaths in this family are awfully suspicious!!

[CalJoe]

You are very correct and well informed indeed. Being the lesser informed of the two, I opted to draw comparison to a trial like O.J.'s given the double-murder similarity. Plus it's most prominent in pop culture, as are say Michael Jackson's and Robert Blake's.

The reason I commented in the first place is because I believe (based on vague circumstantial opinions) that Anna and her son were unfortunate victims of a double murder to reap the $474M prize. We shall sooner or later see how this plays out. It appears though that this potential criminal was a bit more clever than others of the past. Had he been a little more patient, it may not have been so painfully obvious. As it stands though, two mysterious back-to-back deaths in this family are awfully suspicious!!
I will agree that the O.J. trial is the most prominent media televised trial, which only heightens the miscarriage of justice in the case.

I think you might be on to something in the suspicious circumstances surrouding the death of Anna Nicole and her son. I think the coincidental nature of these 2 deaths would be even greater had it not been for Anna's rampant drug use, but I guess we'll see how things turn out. It wouldn't be the first time someone got whacked over a lot of money.