An interview with Michelle Theer: 'Sex, manipulation, and swing clubs'
A. What defense [do] I have against that other than people say I manipulated John Diamond to kill my husband? OK, what is my defense to that other than to say I didn't? But I can say, give me an example of what other man have I manipulated into doing other things?. . .
Q. So, you don't think you manipulated Dana Horton or some of these other people you had relationships with?
A. No, and I don't think Dana Horton would say I manipulated him. . . .
Q. Did you have Marty killed for the life insurance?
A. They are going to say that about anybody [who]. . . has any life insurance. . . . I mean, all I can do is say, no, that's not true.
Q. What got you into this corner. . . maintaining a relationship with Diamond after it was clear he was a suspect?
A. I wasn't in a relationship with him. . . .
Q. No, he was just staying there, at your home?
A. I had several people staying the night. . . I didn't like being alone at night.
Q. You had cut off all sexual relationship with John Diamond by this time?
A. After the weekend of December 9, I never was intimate with him again.
Q. It sure doesn't come across that way when you read the trial transcript. There was testimony from neighbors that he was always over there. How do you get around that?
A. They say he was over there the end of December when I wasn't even there. I was in Colorado.
Q. Was he coming, though, more often than you are telling me?
A. No, I think that time–I think that their perception of when he was there–is just distorted. . . .
Q. Your point is that after Marty had died, your affair with Diamond had ended, even though he drove you to Florida, but that was to see your friend and get a little down time.
A. Yes. . . .
Q. Diamond says on that trip he disposed of the gun.
A. He might have.
Q. His proffer says that Diamond and Michelle drove to Florida and stopped at exits along the way, and they disposed of pieces of the gun in dumpsters at each exit.
A. I don't know anything about that.
Q. Was this guy pathological?
A. Yeah.
Q. You are a pscyhologist, how come you didn't notice that before?
A. I thought about that many times, believe me. The only thing that I can really think of is that I didn't see him in the real world. I never saw him interacting with his friends. I never saw him at his job. I never saw him with his family. If you meet somebody and you are dating them, or, if you live next door to somebody, you kind of get to see how they act in the real world. But when I was with John, it was always sort of a secret thing, and it was always sort of a lie because–well, for one thing, he was lying to me about being married, and lying to me about, he was always lying to me about something, anyway, just our meeting together was always sort of a lie because, you know, I was lying to everybody about where I was and what I was doing. So, it was just like another lie within a lie. . . .
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