Now… how many of the 19,000 pages of SM posts do we think 48 hours will get into?
My mother who knew nothing about any of the parties, made sure to let me know about the verdict and said “that poor man and what they did to him, they should go to jail for it, not him.” So that’s from an outside perspective. I just hope he gets some serious help and can eventually function, but I’m not convinced he’ll recover from the mental break. I hope LK and RG will heal too and learned something through all of this, but I’m not convinced that will happen either.
He is still in the custody of the Dept of Corrections.
He has a thousand people cheering him on.
Your daughter, suffice it to say does not. Everybody knows that had it not been for Lauren, MB would have been just fine. Just like he had been all his life with his ability to persevere, become a respected top competitor and successful two state business owner.
Did Lauren make you proud, hun? Were you overjoyed at your daughters ability to lie under oath? Are you proud of the decision she made to destroy a GOOD man? Always remember, children are a reflection of their parents, dear.
Let me spell something out…BOTH LK and RG testified to MB taking a shot at RG. By finding MB Not Guilty on RG’s charges meant they DID NOT BELIEVE LK AND RG’S TESTIMONY!
Your husband said the attorney was on his way over with champagne to celebrate.
Really? You condone your daughters behavior? Wow! You’d think that after an event like this you’d be a bit more reflective and a lot less grandiose but I guess that explains how we got here, doesn’t it?
Bless your heart. You’re a mom, right? Lauren’s mom, right? I’m not sure how you can hold your head up high and now ridicule and excuse the verdict for a man your daughter and husband vowed to destroy! Finish the Bas**rd! Pretty. The spectacle your daughter and her hired help displayed on the stand was a slap in the prosecution’s face! Gosh, didn’t they have to be compelled to return for thr trial?
Here’s the thing Kirby, Michael Barisone is and will be surrounded by hundreds of friends and supporters helping him heal and learn to start his life anew. Your daughter? Not so much. Have a really nice life Kirby. We’re done…
Interesting that Kirby, whose mother had a doctorate and was a school psychologist, feels it is appropriate to condemn someone for having a long-standing mental health diagnosis. Clearly he had it under enough control to train, compete, be on an Olympic team, have a successful business and a good life despite being a survivor of child sexual and physical abuse.
He didn’t become a drug addict. Not known far and wide as a liar.
Compare and contrast to someone who had the world handed to her and whose only claim to fame at 41 is to have knowingly and calculatingly driven that man insane - using that diagnosis and history against him.
In order to be found not guilty by reason of insanity, one must first be found to have committed the criminal act in question. In other words, he is guilty of shooting her, but he was so deranged at the time of the shooting that he deserves to be committed and evaluated, not sentenced to prison.
Do you honestly think that people who come from privilege can’t also suffer from mental health issues? I feel sorry, not for LK, but for her family. No doubt she has posed problems for them most of her life.
Bless your heart. You’re a mom, right? Lauren’s mom, right? I’m not sure how you can hold your head up high and now ridicule and excuse the verdict for a man your daughter and husband vowed to destroy! Finish the Bas**rd! Pretty. The spectacle your daughter and her hired help displayed on the stand was a slap in the prosecution’s face! Gosh, didn’t they have to be compelled to return for thr trial?
Here’s the thing Kirby, Michael Barisone is and will be surrounded by hundreds of friends and supporters helping him heal and learn to start his life anew. Your daughter? Not so much. Have a really nice life Kirby. We’re done…
If only it was that easy. Feel free to scroll - lengthy post ahead.
When our barn was dealing with a very LK-like TBFH (TrainerB****FromHell), we did operate with best practices. She did not care. She thought she owned the place and acted accordingly. No contracts mattered. No rules mattered.
She sought out the confrontations - with boarders, neighbors, other staff (like me) - but for a while, was all sweetness and smiles with the BO. She berated and bullied my coworker who lived in the barn apartment up there at the bigger barn - coworker was going through a health crisis and was taking time off and very weak. TBFH did not care.
We had meetings. We set out duties and assignments that outlined what our barn - and her training group - was responsible for so that there would be no accusations of things not being done/horse abuse as a result (yeah, she went that route). Several meetings. Even just one on one conversations with her and I. Until our very last “chat”, I managed to stay somewhat cool and calm (teary a couple of times) - which likely infuriated her. TBFH was never calm - and did not care.
A cloud hung over that barn. Boarders were emotional and I could not blame them. Two in particular were singled out by TBFH and she told them she wanted them off the property. I reminded her that was not her job or responsibility - as per the aforementioned meetings. We struggled to carry on and make things work.
I caught one of her clients dumping water buckets in the paddocks on a hot day - so that it could be claimed that the barn staff was not watering the horses… only for the trainer’s string that was her/their responsibility. TBFH did not care. It was all our fault!! I showed her the video I took on my phone of her client likely doing as she was told. She laughed.
My coworker took a turn for the worse… was in ICU for 10 days - and died. She had worked at that barn under different owners for 25 years. I came back from the hospital while she was still in a coma - and found TBFH in that barn apartment going through my coworker’s drawers and cupboards. WTF. I struggled to stay calm. Fortunately, before I get raging ice cold mad, I get teary… and in that state asked her to leave. TBFH looked at me with an innocent expression and said she was just trying to help. Sheer BS. She was looking for valuables - to help herself.
I asked our handyman to put a new lock on the trailer so we could sort coworker’s things out… and TBFH could not interfere. He came the next morning to do that - and Mr.TBFH was moving coworker’s freezer and generator into the garage of the house they were staying in… he lied his ass off and said that coworker had told him that was okay when he called her a couple of days ago. 1) she was in a coma a couple of days ago and 2) she would never say that was okay.
Busted. AGAIN.
Boarders met with BO to lay it on the line. TBFH got tripped up in her ever changing lies. BO saw the light. One big confrontation finally set things right.
All of that ^^ just shows that you can try hard to do everything the right way - and it can still go very wrong. It is all well and good to say you should keep things in perspective and temper your emotions - until you are in the thick of things.
We came out of it into the sunshine in the end… but the scars remain. And TBFH is still out there running her mouth about the facility…
I wonder if there is any way that we could send MB some messages of support. He’s got the whole world behind him, perhaps her would benefit from knowing that we all see clearly what happened here and we’re in his corner.
I find this case so relatable as I watched my mom become the target of a similar woman when I was a child, I saw firsthand how these evil people operate and the torment that woman put my mom through. Her name was Ann Deinhaur and I’m fairly certain she’s dead now. I’ll never forget her, she’s extremely lucky she didn’t encounter me as an adult.
Honestly, I believe the act of entering into an agreement with LK and/or her father in the first place was a huge red flag that he was experiencing mental health issues long before he met them. His choices before LK came along weren’t great (affair leading to costly divorce). https://nancyjaffer.com/depression-and-fear-haunted-michael-barisone-prior-to-the-shooting/
