An interview with Michelle Theer: 'Night falls–and death beckons'
Q. That's what the cops laid on you–manipulating Diamond into this viewpoint that he thought the only way he could have you. As I read this proffer from Diamond, he is describing you as a coldblooded killer.
A. He's describing himself. I mean, I think even the police and the prosecutors know that there's no way I could have done what he says; otherwise, I'm sure they would have argued it.
Q. Did you manipulate Diamond into killing your husband? Were you the so-called Black Widow that Tom Harbin made reference to in his testimony?
A. No.
Q. Did you ever describe yourslef as a Black Widow?
A. Not that I recall.
Q. Even in joking.
A. I don't recall that. . . .
Q. You're not capable of doing what Diamond says you did?
A. No, and I would have no reason. . . .
Q. You're telling me you are innocent.
A. Yes, you know this is one of the things that has just blown me away from the beginning is that people who have known me for years, all my life, who have seen that I am not a cold person. I don't hurt people. My whole life has been about helping people. . . I have been a volunteer since I was 15 years old. . . I can remember getting on the bus and riding the bus to go volunteer at Children's Hospital in Denver, and I did that for several years. . . .
Q. But some people suggest that you are a psychopath, that you showed no remorse.
A. Show remorse for what? I'm not guilty of–I mean how can I show remorse for a crime that I didn't commit? I loved Marty, and even if I, even if our marriage had ended, even if we had decided to get a divorce, even the times when we were having problems, there was never hatred there. And even the times when Marty and I disagreed. . . there was never any knockdown, drag-out fights. And, you know, that was part of the problem we had.
Q. You didn't communicate.
A. Even when we communicated, there was no passion. Even our arguments, there was no passion. . . We didn't hate each other. There was no hatred there. . . . It is so hard for me to understand people who knew us, who basically saw us grow up together, you know, how they could think that I would want to harm Marty. I mean. . . I don't understand it, I really don't. . . .
Q. What happened after the party and you drove back?
A. OK. . . Dominique [Peterson] and Heidi [Mougey] had driven up with us. . . . We got back to Fayetteville pretty quick–Marty drives fast–there's not a lot of traffic on the road. And, we pulled into the parking lot, dropped Heidi and Dominque, and we left, and as we were pulling out, I brought up to Marty, I said, we need to talk about what we are going to do tomorrow about the cars. Because the Corvette's not ready, they said not to plan on it being ready until lunchtime. . . . So, we are kind of talking back and forth, hashing out some different ideas, and Marty looks at the gas gauge and pulls over to get some gas. . . . I just said I will call a cab in the morning, since Marty had to get up so early. . . because he had a flight. I was going to get a cab to take me to work. I had two reports that I had worked on over the weekend–psychological evaluations, they are like 10 to 12 pages long. And one of them I had to have ready the next morning for, like, 8:30 was my first appointment. And I had almost finished it, there was just a little part that I hadn't done because there was a book that I had needed at the office. And, so I said, Marty, well, I'm worried, if I call a cab, what if they don't show up on time, what if I don't get to work on time, I gotta have this report done. . . . So, we decided to go back to the office and get this book that I needed. And, actually, I thought. . . there is another [report]. . . . I will get both of these reports, and I will stay up tonight and finish this. It was 10:30, which for me is pretty early. I'm a night owl. I'd rather stay up to 3 in the morning to get something done and only get five hours of sleep than to go to bed early and get up at, you know, 4 o'clock in the morning. It was only 10:30. We decided to go back to the office, I am going to get my books, and then we'll go home. He's, of course, going to go to bed, and I'll stay up late. So, we turn around–it's only, it's not very far, I thought it was only about a mile, but I guess it's actually 2 miles. And, of course, this time of night, there's absolutely no traffic, all the lights are on green, so it takes no time at all to get back there [to the office]. Marty pulls up behind the building, parks the car, I get out, I go upstairs, and, I don't think there's a light back there, there's a light off to the side.
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