Toddler's Hot Car Death

GnocchiB
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 15:23:48 +0000

And one other thing that’s been bothering me. Obviously people grieve in different ways, but I find Leanna Harris’ actions throughout all of this to be really unusual - to the point of making me wonder if she was in some way complicit.

The “Ross must have left him in the car” comment when she went to the day care to get him is one of them, but I can sort of see how she wondered because if the child was not at day care and not with Ross, where else could he be - so still in the car is the only other place.

And I thought it was strange how she was so concerned with Ross and how he was feeling in the video of her seeing him for the first time in the interrogation room. Strange to me - it sort of reminds me of the branches of Christianity in which the man is the head of the household and the woman has to submit to his will and not question it.

The “did you say too much” comment she made to Ross in the interrogation room is another weird one. Was she in on some plot?

Then there were the comments she made, I think at the funeral, about how even if she could have Cooper back she wouldn’t want him because she knew he was with God in heaven. Could that be because her husband had decided Cooper should no longer live?

It came out in the trial that Leanna stopped cooperating with the police the day after Cooper died - she wouldn’t help them get Cooper’s medical records and I think stopped answering questions - I guess because she wanted to protect Ross, who was under arrest at that point. Again, strikes me as strange. I have no personal experience with police investigations, so maybe that’s not so unusual.

I find it very odd that even at trial after the litany of horrible sexting details and the double life he led, she maintained on the stand that it was an accident and that Ross never would have killed their child. She put up a statement on FB after the verdict warning people that leaving a child in a car could happen to anyone. I can see that it could happen to anyone BUT what Ross did in this particular case was clearly not one of those rare accidents. The fact that she still chooses not to see any wrongdoing on Ross’ part strikes me as very strange.

Finally, where were the grandparents and aunts/uncles of Cooper before, during and after the trial? It seemed to me like the state was the only one standing up for the little boy who died.