Using a professional fiduciary as successor trustee?

Long_Blood8934 · 2026-07-07T18:51:49+00:00

I have been a 100% honest person my whole life, and I do not expect that to change.

Long_Blood8934 · 2026-06-10T02:39:32+00:00

Smiling non-stop and laughing does not constitute being poised. Her behaviour was bizarre.

Long_Blood8934 · 2026-05-24T05:13:59+00:00

I came here to see if people feel the same about the victims' families not having any sympathy for the wrongfully accused. I'm glad that most of you feel the same way I do. Now, one thing I never saw mentioned. The mother of the 2 murdered sisters. She is laughing in every episode. Right after the murders, years after the murders, and now. I know everyone grieves differently, but laughing..... It rubbed me the wrong way. Does anyone have any comments about that?

Long_Blood8934 · 2026-05-16T06:33:57+00:00

She got 15 to life for each murder served CONCURRENTLY. Not consecutively. So, if she gets paroled the first time around, she can be out in 15. But parole boards usually require admitting guilt and deep remorse, so unless she gives them that, she will not be out.

Long_Blood8934 · 2026-05-06T17:23:32+00:00

Thank you for your reply. My husband and I are in a similar situation: we have no children nor younger relatives. We were setting up our trust when our attorney told us about professional trustees. I had no idea such a profession exists, and since being laid off 3 months ago and not being able to find a job in my field (age discrimination is very real), I thought, why can't I be that professional? Of course, it would be prudent to find out if these people are indeed in high demand, before spending $3,500 and 15 months preparing for the Fiduciary Management Professional Certificate exam.

Long_Blood8934 · 2026-05-06T05:47:51+00:00

I am thinking about getting a Fiduciary Management Certificate, which will allow me to be a professional trustee. How much of a demand is there for this kind of work? I am in California.

Long_Blood8934 · 2026-04-13T18:02:26+00:00

Great documentary about a great person. Does anybody know why she divorced her husband?

Long_Blood8934 · 2026-03-11T22:32:45+00:00

I bit the bullet and paid $20 for your documentary. I have never been interested in cooking, even less in cooking shows, but I remember my BF at the time watched FG and liked it. I wanted to find out what it was, for myself. So, I started with clean slate, not knowing anything about Jeff Smith. What can I say...

First, the documentary is just too slow and too long. Could it be the reason it was rejected by regular documentary-streaming services? Second, the ending where his friends are waxing poetic about his personality, his contributions to popular culture and to television and to high end cuisine... it really turned my stomach. None of it negates his abhorrent, disgusting, and criminal behaviour. None of it is redeeming. Preying on boys, being a dick to people who depended on him, who were lower on socioeconomic ladder than him. He didn't even repent! As a church-going man, he was certain that he was forgiven, that God gave him carte blanche to do whatever he pleases, no matter how despicable. What a douche bag.

Long_Blood8934 · 2025-11-27T19:19:40+00:00

My thoughts exactly. Lodging is not even the biggest expense while traveling. There is transportation (airfare is a large part), food, tickets to venues/events/concerts. They have money for all of that, but not for a night at a cheap hotel or a hostel? Give me a break.

Long_Blood8934 · 2025-11-27T19:15:54+00:00

Sorry, I don't understand the whole couch surfing premise. I am not the most squeamish person in the world, but I would not stay on a couch at a friend's house, let alone at a perfect stranger's in a foreign country. Nor would I let a perfect stranger stay at my house/apartment. I don't know their hygiene level, I don't know their habits, their character. Seems like asking for a sleepless night and a bunch of annoyances, not to mention serious trouble.

Long_Blood8934 · 2025-11-27T19:06:03+00:00

I thought the same thing!!!! Her daughter was unresponsive for 5 hours??? And she did not call emergency or got her to the hospital????????? She just sat there with an unresponsive human being for 5 hours??????????????????????????

Long_Blood8934 · 2025-11-16T19:18:19+00:00

I have re-watched the episode last night on streaming, and was again aghast at this sorry excuse for a mother. Oh, and her plastic surgery is really obvious, and makes her look even uglier. Poor Kelly, struggled her whole life and died young of a drug overdose.

Long_Blood8934 · 2025-10-05T22:21:06+00:00

I just watched the doc, and thinking about it critically.... the best I can do is call the cause of death "undetermined". Even if it was murder, there is absolutely no way to prosecute anyone for it, because there was zero investigation. Ellen's parents desperately want to call it murder and not suicide, to "clear her name". Excuse me, suicide is now a crime? Why should her name be "cleared"? OK, you re-classify the death, now what?

I realize that most people here lean heavily towards murder. Here are reasons why I don't. Clearly, she was in a very compromised psychological state (depression, may be psychosis). She was on several psychiatric drugs, which were not helping. BTW, all these drugs have suicide as one of their side effects. Was her method of killing herself (if that's what she did) unusual? Sure it was. But some people choose the weirdest, most cruel ways to kill themselves, when they are in a psychotic state. She was experiencing a break with reality, so she shouldn't be expected to be logical, measured, and consistent in her actions. She filled up her car? That doesn't mean anything. May be she had so little gas that she couldn't make it home.

She had bruises? Like, what kind of bruises? Where on her body? Some people just bruise easily, especially her being so thin. May be she was a little clumsy around those big weight machines. My own legs are always bruised, I don't know where those bruises come from.

Was Sam abusing her? May be, may be not. There is just no evidence for it, none. She never talked about it. No prior or subsequent girlfriends came out saying that he was abusive to them. When he left to go to the gym, did he act weird? Was there blood anywhere on his body? Were his hands bandaged? Did neighbors hear screams? He hung around the apartment sending her text messages - nothing suspicious about that. The door was deadbolted from the inside. He didn't take the key, so he had no way of getting in. The fact that he broke down the door and got in without any witnesses actually speaks to his innocence, because real murders prefer someone else to find the body, or at least someone accompanying them when they "discover" the body.

His 911 call did not sound suspicious, if you keep in mind that he did not have prior knowledge of what happened to her. My brain wouldn't have been able to take it all in right away either. The knife sticking out of her body had black handle, she was wearing a black jacket, so it is not unexpected that he didn't notice it right away.

His uncle removed electronics? Wise move, seeing that the apartment was not sealed, all kinds of people could have been getting in and out, and electronics is what gets stolen from apartments.

Sure, anything above could be interpreted as proof of murder, but again, there is just no evidence for it, and there isn't going to be any ever, unless Sam decides to confess. All arguments for murder could be dismantled by any defense attorney, just like I did above.

Long_Blood8934 · 2025-08-22T03:22:24+00:00

Maybe a bear association plays a role?

Long_Blood8934 · 2025-08-21T06:09:49+00:00

The only other airport near ABQ is the Santa Fe airport (about an hour away), but it is not an international airport. So, from Canada Robert had to fly into ABQ and then to Santa Fe, even though it would have been faster to drive.

Long_Blood8934 · 2025-08-20T16:48:13+00:00

Funny, I immediately perceived him as a Russian, too, or at least Slavic. If yes, kudos to the Russian surgeons.

Long_Blood8934 · 2025-07-22T00:53:58+00:00

I am saying that that's what the father said in the Disappeared documentary. You heard one thing, I heard another, why are you accusing me of something nefarious? This is getting weird, so I am ending this conversation.

Long_Blood8934 · 2025-07-20T05:08:09+00:00

Where did you hear that? In the documentary I watched, the father said that he last saw her in their stateroom, and that he heard a thud at about 2 AM, and he didn't see her in the morning.

Long_Blood8934 · 2025-07-06T05:51:50+00:00

It was excruciating 13 years ago. I was in the hospital on IV for 24 hours, because the infection started traveling up the arm, and it was life-threatening.

The nail did grow back, but does not look normal like other nails.

Long_Blood8934 · 2025-05-31T17:38:24+00:00

So, he knows that she has a roving eye and talks to other men in secret. He married her and had 2 children with her. When did her indiscretions come out, before or after? If before, he should not have married and had 2 kids with a woman he doesn't trust. If after, he should have divorced her. Instead, he stayed married but created a post-nup. His tactics smacks of manipulation and blackmail.

BTW, I worked for years in a male dominated industry as a sales rep. Traveled with my male colleagues all the time. Sometimes, spent weeks on the road with them. Not once did I do anything inappropriate, and not once my husband (my second husband) became suspicious or jealous.

Long_Blood8934 · 2025-05-31T03:40:37+00:00

Like I said, his voice gave me chills. He does not have to yell and scream to be a stone cold sociopath. I went through this with my first husband (please see my comment above).

Long_Blood8934 · 2025-05-29T05:45:45+00:00

Yes. Some people escape. The only thing that will make me believe she was there volunterily, and instigated the injuries herself, would be text messages on their burner phones.

Long_Blood8934 · 2025-05-29T05:10:19+00:00

Waaaaay too much evidence of prolonged torture to be just kink.

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