An interview with Michelle Theer: 'Life in the joint'
Q. Do you think you gave me this interview because you feel defeated, that you want to get your story out?
A. I don't know if I feel defeated, but I can tell you that, what I can say is that I feel like I have been silenced for too long, and there is just some part of me that needs to speak out in my own defense, you know. I can understand Kirk's [her trial attorney Kirk Osborn] reasoning for not wanting to put me on the stand, but now at this point, I feel like my silence has just basically become a burden. . . . I guess, in some ways, I do feel defeated. In jail, one girl who has been in several times, she said, I just want to ask you one question. She said, you know, obviously you didn't love him [Marty]. Why did she say that? Because I was having an affair, and she thought I killed him [Marty]. I guess everyone thinks that, that I didn't love him, and obviously I killed him, that's what they think. . . .
Q. If you got off on appeal, would people think you were innocent?
A. I would go around the rest of my life, and people would say, that is the woman who killed her husband. . . . People will always say, yeah, she killed her husband, and her boyfriend took the fall. . . .'
Q. Was there any one thing that convicted you?
A. No. They brought in troops and troops and troops of people–piling these grains of sand up until eventually you have a mountain. It was circumstantial–all it proves is that I had an affair. It did not prove that I planned and perpetrated a murder. . . .
Editor's Note: For more information on this story, see an appeal brief filed by John Diamond with the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals.
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