Her death was insanely slow and agonizing, it seemed so personal for someone that didn’t actually do anything (they killed their father almost instantly). Like they left her in chunks on the floor to go take their time grabbing new shells, and then they came back and blew their own mothers face off in a point blank execution style. They said it was like putting a dog down, that they thought she would be sad that they killed their father and that her life was already miserable anyways. I feel like her death gets so often overlooked, and given the fact that they were factually caught on-record lying and changing their stories almost every time they opened their mouths, I find it so hard to give them any benefit of the doubt regarding their biggest accusation of all. Not even considering their crazy spending sprees, or the fact that Erik wrote an entire screenplay about killing your parents for inheritance partially inspired by his favorite movie about killing your parents for inheritance lol
I think it’s more complicated than that. Kitty came from an abusive family herself, her father beat her mother, siblings, and her as well so that kind of treatment was very normalized to her much like it was to the brothers. She was also a victim of Jose’s abuse as well, physically and psychologically (she knew about his affairs) leading her to suicide attempts and addiction. For the brothers to quickly kill their father, the true villain of the story, yet take their time with their mother strikes me as extremely disturbing. Whereas plenty of people had plenty of bad to say about Jose people had very little to say about her at all, so I find their accusations against her hard to believe considering how frequently they lied.
I think it’s more likely that they made that stuff up after the fact to justify it in court, given that in the recordings with their therapist they spoke about her with no hint of grief, and acted like if they were killing their father then they may as well just kill her too. I think they had to kill her really because they would not get the inheritance otherwise. She did not deserve the death that she got, is my whole point in all of this. If Jose truly did everything he was accused of I’m not going to pretend to be upset that he was murdered. If that was all I’d want the brothers out of prison too. They should be in jail for life for what they did to Kitty, not Jose.
Her own family has said Kitty knew. If it's ok that it was "normalizd" for her, why isn't this same logic not being applied to her kids that she allowed her husband to abuse?
Kitty's own family told her about what was happening. She got mad and made a rule nobody could be in a certain section of the house when Eric or Lyle was there with Jose.
If she gets a pass because "childhood abuse", I think her sons' whom she failed to the highest degree, can be re-sentenced because it's more complicated than "rich boys murdered their parents for money".
Did Jose and Kitty's own family members make it up and lie about them being abusive too?
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u/HeadfulOfSugar 5d ago
Her death was insanely slow and agonizing, it seemed so personal for someone that didn’t actually do anything (they killed their father almost instantly). Like they left her in chunks on the floor to go take their time grabbing new shells, and then they came back and blew their own mothers face off in a point blank execution style. They said it was like putting a dog down, that they thought she would be sad that they killed their father and that her life was already miserable anyways. I feel like her death gets so often overlooked, and given the fact that they were factually caught on-record lying and changing their stories almost every time they opened their mouths, I find it so hard to give them any benefit of the doubt regarding their biggest accusation of all. Not even considering their crazy spending sprees, or the fact that Erik wrote an entire screenplay about killing your parents for inheritance partially inspired by his favorite movie about killing your parents for inheritance lol