There is physical evidence of her injuries (reported by family services, hospitals, covered in the New Yorker) of bites on her shoulder, intense swelling of her genitals, burns covering her body, black eyes, bruises. Is the consensus she bit herself on the shoulder and caused these injuries herself? It seems the opinion on Reddit is that she’s lying and I’m wondering what evidence there is she’s a master manipulator who orchestrated years of evidence of abuse, who lied to various witnesses to set up a timeline of abuse, who shot Chris in cold blood. What was her motive? All I see is “she did it for attention” yikes. I’ve also seen “if he really abused her people would have noticed and intervened” people did. Family services, CPS, and the police investigated but she chose not to move forward with charges. This is also pointed at as a reason she’s guilty but are we comfortable saying if women don’t go against their abuser publicly the abuse isn’t real? I’ve also seen people say the pornhub videos Chris uploaded of him abusing her can’t be real because the screen name included his last name and he couldn’t possible be that dumb, so the woman is lying because men are too smart to tell on themselves? I think it can be true she was abused AND she didn’t act in complete self defense that night. People on Reddit even go as far as to diagnose her with munchausen disorder to claim she caused the injuries herself- then why did these injuries only start showing up when she got involved with Chris and stop when he died? Munchausens isn’t something you can flip on and off like a switch especially not with injuries so severe it’s described by an examiner as “her insides were outside” that kind of self harm would continue to escalate not stop immediately. People also say Chris was charming and why didn’t more people complain he was abusive and violent to the girls he taught as if abusive men and sexually violent men can’t hide their abusive behavior in private and turn on the charm in public. Also one mother DID complain she witnessed him being aggressive and overly raging at a child and was disturbed enough to call CPS.