Still Misfitting

Our friend, Denise Nix of The Daily Breeze reports of a murder trial involving an area quite familiar to Rendezvous readers (and misfits of yore), Rancho Palos Verdes. Read all about it at the link. Apparently, accused spousal murrrderer Brandon Manai, forgot one of the key rules of modern-day criminals: don’t use your cell phone during or after committing a crime if you intend for your alibi to stick.

The motive for the murder is unclear at this time. Had the victim, Julie Rosas, told her husband that she was pregnant, as is sometimes a ploy used to reel in wayward husbands? No indications of pregnancy are noted in the reports. Obviously, she wasn’t dressed for “hiking” at the time of her death, and there was no sign of a physical altercation prior to her fall. How did she get up there?  Was she brought to the cliff after being drugged? Traces of any substance (like GHB) would have disappeared by the time she was found. Her poor, grieving husband didn’t even report her missing for a couple of days and has a history of abusing women, according to an ex-girlfriend who is scheduled to testify.

Manai was sloppy and stupid, as is the case with most spouse murderers who inevitably get caught and sentenced to long prison stints, but why did he do it? There was no life insurance, no children from a previous relationship, no financial gain. We can only guess.

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