Unfathomable to me, too. I think he meant to kill the baby, the baby was not a real "loved person" to him...He simply did not want to have the responsibility and wanted to be free ...from marriage and fatherhood...
His "glorious marriage" to "amazing" Laci was not providing what he needed...and complicating his abilities to do as he pleased....He showed no guilt or remorse....
His sleepovers and phone calls with Amber were providing excitement, adoration, and he did not want to stop receiving those things. Freedom was what he wanted.
Speaking of transcript summaries, I read an excerpt the other day. Remember the story of how one of the defense attorneys (Dalton, apparently) and an investigator, went to Scott's warehouse, and the realtor caught them removing something from the seat of a forklift? At first I'd heard the removed object was a water pitcher, but in the transcripts I believe it says water BOTTLE.
Meanwhile, they're talking about GHB again on websleuths. They rehashed some info one of them dug up through research. It said that GHB is clear and is particularly dangerous b/c people sometimes drink from water bottles where it is present.
And now I'm wondering again about Laci's symptoms. CO, I was older than Laci was during my pregnancies. I have good health; Laci, from all accounts, had good health. Sure, you get tired, but not as much as Laci apparently was. I never ever experienced "dizziness", or the feeling that I would pass out. She, OTOH, seems to have experienced these things more than once.
Could he have been dosing her with something, maybe GHB? There was a report way back that he had indeed looked up GHB sites on his computer.
Let's not forget that shortly before Lizzie Borden's father and step-mother were found hacked up, she had been seen buying prussic acid--a deadly poison. Shortly after she bought it, some of the family got sick after dinner. Just b/c a murderer might try more than one method doesn't mean they don't get the job done!
I understand he was lively and affectionate towards Amber in his calls which took place in late December. And we hear that he NEVER MENTIONED the hubbub going on all around him. Never mentioned the whole tragic mind-numbing even that HE was at the center of.
I don't know, Meg--that may not prove to the jury that he'd just killed his wife, but it's just GOT to boggle their minds! It's just GOT to at least make them shake their heads in disbelief.