Were the shoes entered into evidence at the time the crime scene was processed, or were they entered by the defense at some later date? If there are photos of them in her closet the day after the murder, then maybe she wasn't lying. What I was saying is that the prosecution should have (maybe they did, I don't know)tried to establish when the things were purchased and by whom.
Here is the scenario I'm picturing: lawyer interviews Mrs. Winkler. He is looking for anything he can find to create doubt or justification for his client's actions. He asks if he had any peccadillos. Winkler is a plain jane preacher's wife. She was probably very modest about her body and sexuality. Preacher man wants her to sex it up, gets her to wear lingerie and heels. Nothing weird, just bought stuff for her from Victoria's Secret but to her it was still vulgar. Had nothing to do with why she killed him, but the lawyer doesn't have much to work with.
Now he is in Nashville for court and stop in at one of the local ballet parlors downtown. For some reason he thinks of Mary Winkler and her prudish attitude towards the 2 1/2 inch closed toe pumps she thought were slutty, and he thinks to himself "now if he made you wear something like these 7 inch lucite platforms that Bambi here is wearing, I could see your point in blasting him".
Cue the little light bulb over the head. Next thing is that classic photo of the shoes in the foreground, and little miss murderer behind them looking forelorn and disgusted.
Number two, I would be very surprised if they would ever step inside Platinum Plus or any other sleaze joint.
For some reason I believe her, but whatever happened did not warrant killing him, unless her life or the children’s were in danger, which they apparently were not.
Strange, too, that in her confession, she was acting almost cocky, like she was enjoying the attention. But she wouldn’t say that he was abusive. As a matter of fact she said he never abused her, that he was upset because the church was broke. I guess so seeing she used the churches money for her little check kiting scheme she had going on. Then her lawyers tell her to keep her mouth shut and they come up with this abuse defense and suddenly it was her he was mad at, not the church. At one point in her confession she even said, “ he was so good.”
Her lawyer had a piece in our local newspaper the other day about how the case came together and from what her own lawyer said, thats almost exactly how it happened! He said he didn’t call it coaching; he just called it good strategy.