An interview with Michelle Theer: 'A lovers' confrontation'
A. Yes.
Q. After you come back, is it true that you went to Myrtle Beach with John?
A. I went by myself. . . He was never in Myrtle Beach. . . I was in Denver, and after spending two weeks, about two weeks, just under two weeks, I don't remember the exact date I left, like the 29th [of December]. . . I was just exhausted. I had been with both of my grandparents, both of my parents, my extended family for this whole time. . . I was just feeling completely suffocated and smothered, and I felt like I was just ready to die. I just needed to be alone, that's all I could say. . . I felt like I couldn't breathe. The sight of other people, the constant, you know, petting, coddling, and talking, it was, like, overstimulus. And, so my dad made my plane reservations. . . he made the hotel reservations for me for, I think, two weeks. . . I was in a hotel that was right on the beach. Of course, it was freezing cold. Even though it was the beach, it was freezing cold. I pretty much just stayed in my room; I sat on the balcony wrapped up in my coat and a blanket. . . .
Q. John Diamond was not there?
A. No. . . .
Q. Is this true, from Diamond's proffer–Michelle wrote Diamond that she missed him and loved him, her life was empty without him?
A. Uh-uh. I never wrote him. I never wrote him a single letter. I did send him books twice, once when he was at Camp LeJeune.
Q. The proffer says you sneaked a set of silver rings to him prior to his court-martial, wanted him to be patient.
A. Uh-uh
Q. This is all bulls***?
A. Yes. . .
Q. Is he making all this up?
A. (She nods yes)
[John Diamond's appellate lawyer, Donald Rehkopf, argues that Michelle Theer continued to manipulate Diamond even after he was charged with Marty Theer's murder. Rehkopf, in an appeal with the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals, says that Michelle Theer arranged to find a defense lawyer for Diamond and even provided the $1,500 used to retain two laywers, Coy Brewer and Ronnie Mitchell of Fayetteville. Brewer says that he has no knowledge that Michelle provided any of the retainer fee.]
Q. One of the things that Diamond's people made a big deal of is that you paid the retainer to Coy Brewer and Ronnie Mitchell. Why did you do that?
A. I didn't. . . .and I'll have to admit my memory about some of this stuff is very bad. There is something about, where I did send his sister a money order for $500 for something. . . .
Q. The Diamond family would have no way of knowing who Brewer was. It seems pretty clear that you must have told them that Brewer and Mitchell were the people to hire?
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