I think we all want to know what went on inside the Fort Thomas home of the McCafferty’s. I’ll admit I am interested in finding out how that happened. How will her lawyers defend her? What will be the claim? A dead man’s behavior, personality…dirty laundry will be on display for everyone to see. I know, it’s like a bad wreck that makes you slow down to see what happened. I guess that makes me a rubber-necker.
Why intriguing? Perfect family. Perfect house. Perfect marriage. Perfect kids. Picture perfect. And it turns out it was all a facade. I’m not interested because I take joy in someone else’s misery. Quite the opposite. It makes me sad that an entire family worked so hard on ‘propping’ up appearances that they were falling apart behind closed doors. Or were they?
Will the defense create its own facade? Will they mastermind a defense that will paint Robert McCafferty as a monster? An abuser who was as maticulous about his family’s behavior as he was about his well-manicured lawn (and putting green in the back yard)? Will we learn the truth about what really happened before, during and after the shooting?
Who will intensify the intrigue? I’m afraid it will be the missing link in all of this. The kids. Will they take the stand to help the defense team clear their mother or at least lessen the charges and possible punishment? I believe the kids are the missing link. From the beginning it has been Cheryl McCafferty’s word against the reputation of a dead man. By all accounts (except Cheryl’s ) Robert MCafferty was a kind, upstanding member of his community. Like-able guy, volunteer and baseball coach. Remember the newspaper photo right after the murder…of one of Robert’s friends standing in front of the house with a member of the Ft. Thomas Police Department. They were hugging eathother..consoling eachother over the loss of good friend. Who could derail that? The kids. The kids lived in the house with both parents. Did they witness or even endure the alleged abuse? Surely the kids will take the stand and try to support their mother’s claims of abuse and shooting their father in his sleep was self defense. Remember the prosecution will get a chance to question the kids if they testify. What will they say? Will the truth set their mother free? Or will we find out that Cheryl McCafferty is just that…a cold blooded murderer. And that begs the question..and one the prosecution will drive into the ground: Why didn’t you just leave? Take the kids and leave.
I will admit. I will be slowing down to look and hear. I want to know what happened to a family that was so bad and awful that it ended with one parent shooting the other? Intrigue.
That is all.
