Anita Smithey “The Verdict” 48 Hours
When I watched Anita Smithey on 48 Hours, I do not believe that she said one honest thing in the entire interview. It was jaw dropping and the clues were abundant from the very first minute we see her to the very end of the interview. I could write a book on her.
Anita tries to portray a very different person then she truly is, but fails miserably at it.
When Anita hears the verdict, if she was truly a victim, I would expect surprise or shock, but we see none of it. Then you can literally see Anita work up a reaction–a very fake one. Listen to her give a fake wail as she attempts to “collapse” in her attorney’s arms. And look at how upset she is in this still shot below when she is wailing! That wail she creates is anything but real and genuine.
When I listen to the 911 call, there are immediate clues that she is acting in her voice. There are notable changes which can be immediately articulated.
I love how she shoots him, and then has no fear and goes outside and says on the 911 call as she sits outside on the steps, “I don’t want him to die.”
Wait a minute here!! I thought you were afraid for your life–that he was going to kill you–but you turned your back and went outside and sat down? And had no fear??
Would you turn your back on someone without knowing if they are 100% dead if you feared for your life?
How is that anywhere consistent with her story?
It’s flat out absurd.
Anita said on 48 Hours, “Did I think he could kill me, yes I did.”
If you are truly afraid, you don’t turn your back on the man even if you think he is dead, because if he is a dangerous, he could just pull through and surprise you, and kill you! Fear doesn’t dissipate that quickly in a life or death situation.
I love how Anita says “he had violent sex with me” instead of rape. You notice she can’t use the word “rape”? It’s notable.
According to one of Anita’s friends during the trial, Anita shared with her that she and Robert willfully engaged in “rough sex” by choice and there was knives involved and she enjoyed it. It was her “thing”.
Hmmm…
When Anita recounts Robert coming after her, she shows no supportive emotions whatsoever. You’d think she was talking about a lunch party instead. There is no fear, stress, concern, or tension in her face at all. It’s eerily missing.
Anita’s injuries are completely superficial, and worse she admits she made them herself. There was no intense pressure from police in the interview we see. She could have left at any time, but she chose to keep talking by choice–to convince police of what she was saying.
After the murder, Anita called her best friend and said, “I’m sorry, I didn’t want it to go this way. He was hurting me.”
I would expect Anita to say that she feared for her life, that he was raping her and was going to kill her, but she doesn’t. She can’t quite say it because I believe its untrue.
Anita says when talking about Robert showing up at her house the night she killed him, “I was a little concerned with what he is doing here. I don’t know where this is going.”
Anita wants you to think he surprised her, right? Yet we hear that he came by to have sex on Monday nights when her kids were at their father’s house. So it wasn’t unusual for them to spend time together.
Furthermore, a detective says, “Anita first said Mr. Cline came over to the house that night and somehow was able to get inside the house.”
Then she says after Robert came over, he fixed her cable. He just randomly shows up and decides to fix her cable? Are you buying it?
After he fixed the cable, they watched a movie and started kissing, “Okay, so he wants to have sex, and this is what we do and he’ll go home. So I’m sort of consensual on…you know, having sex with him….initially.”
Do you see how she is all over the board here?
After the sex, 48 Hours reports that Anita said she got dressed and she told Robert to leave, and she talks about how he put a knife to her neck. Notice she tells him to leave–that’s quite bold if she is an abused women under his control. Don’t you think?
Anita says, “‘I’m like….if you hurt me, you’re not going to get away with this. Everyone’s gonna know it’s you’ …Because I felt at that moment, is he threatening to kill me? Like what is he doing with the knife? I don’t understand like what he’s doing.”
Does that make sense?
If you just had sex with someone, and they violently attack you afterwards and come after you and put a knife at your neck, would you not know what was going on?
Her story is a absurd.
Then Anita says nothing more about the knife, her being cut (no details), just now Robert wanted “rough sex”.
No offense here, but when men age, they typically need time before they can engage again. And she no longer fights him? Suddenly he is reaching for coconut oil — that investigators found in the bathroom, not where Anita said it was.
Yeah, right.
So Anita says, “I’ve gotta gun (which she says put under her pillow when he got the coconut oil) get off of me.”
And she wants us to believe big bad Robert Cline who is so much bigger than her, and raping her, and who is sitting on top of her docilely stops, watches her wiggle around, finds her gun and shoot him.
In the back.
How did he even get on his stomach when he was raping her?
So much of this story is missing. For a reason.
Suddenly she is stronger and more powerful then him. Wow!
Then she says, “We were so close, like he was right there. We were so close. To the point that I think he was almost leaning on the gun.”
With his back?
This is crazy. Big bad Robert just leaned on her gun. He had no fear of a gun and let her wield it at him.
Right.
Her entire account is riddled with lies, false accounts and nonsense. I personally believe she intentionally killed Robert. She was sick of him, his arguments with her, and wanted finally to show him who was really in control and it wasn’t Robert.
I suspect Anita and Robert had tense relationship. They argued and were like oil and water at times. I don’t disagree about that. There was verbal arguments, and maybe some heated situations, but I don’t believe a word Anita tells us this incident at all.
I could write a book about this woman. Thank goodness she is locked up!
There is actually one huge whopper in this case that I haven’t addressed. Do you know what it is?
she admits that she stabbed (barely cut) herself “be he was there too?” Her voice changes from a loud, declarative voice to a whisper when she admits this was really her doing. There are so many to choose from here. Her poor children. Can’t imagine growing up with her and believing her.
Not the whopper…
“Fear doesn’t dissipate that quickly in a life or death situation.” That is so cool how you know these things. I don’t have that kind of clarity to catch inconsistency in a story. Even if I have a sense that something is off or that a person is ingenuine I can’t catch the clearcut inconsistencies. It’s like if you imagine the PICTURE painted by the liar, then you can see the inconsistencies, but it isn’t that easy to do for most of us to truly PICTURE the story. I am going to try to do this from time to time as a conscious exercise: PICTURE what someone is telling you.
Very good observation, Clownfish. Yes, I do. I PICTURE the story being told. Absolutely true. I am very visual.
He was shot in the back??? I had read several sources that said he was shot in the chest, which made me think it may have happened during a violent argument. But if he was indeed shot in the back, this lady is deservedly toast.
Oh and one whopper I heard was that no rapist is going to use coconut oil for his partner’s pleasure 😉
Actually, we can’t make that deduction…
When the best friend says she had been told that Anita would’t leave the marriage alive, that sounded like a lie to me.
Haha I think I got it Eyes, ‘he said something like, “You b____, you killed me.”‘
Actually reading commentary made me laugh, after plodding along here and then comparing what I was thinking to all the things you see. I bet you could give a running commentary to the video as you’re listening to it 🙂
You got it! Way to go. I bet less then 1 in 1000 saw this. Great job!
Yes, I see much of this live as a I watch it. In this show, it was less than a minute in and I wasn’t buying it and when she said this, I was like “You’re done, lady.”
Without the previously forbiden video of her talking about the knife, do you think the jury was snowed and she would have gotten away with it?
Or that was just 48 Hours editing to make it a clincher?
How could that attorney play the 911 tape? And I wonder if the prosecution didn’t object cause they were licking their chops, or didn’t realize until they heard it?
Lol!!!! Hahahahaha:) Honestly this isn’t supposed to be funny, but that lie kind of is:)
This is a really sad situation. Children who lost their parents, a father losing his family farm to pay lousy lawyers… I don’t see anything funny in this at all.
No the situation is tragic. Just the lie is kind of funny. A dead person they were killed. Makes no sense and is kind of a lame lie.
My self-laughter was more of the kind when you realize you have a lot to learn, in this case as the situation seems obvious – after Eyes has pointed out all the inconsistencies.
Humor is a useful tool to provide shocks (so that a person can gain new perspective), to relieve tension (note the prosecuters squeal in the lift) and to indicate false situations (this is the type I mentioned above as you realize the absurdity of some of the claims).
But I don’t like negative humor that reinforces stereotypical views of human behavior and situations.
Of course I didn’t describe it very well in my previous comment.
I can also see the tragedy of this case. I see a father desperately prepared to give everything to save his child. But although natural the real tragedy to me is that his efforts seem too little and too late, and support the wrong cause. I also see Anita prepared to drag her whole family, past, present and future generations, into a kind of oblivion.
What was her motive? That has never been answered. Insurance?
I’m fearul though of:
a. the “inadequate council” appeals potential
b. the “SHOULD I get a lawyer”
c. and the new female attorney, who either really believes she has a case on appeal, or is chasing the ambulance of fame for a national case.
Your thoughts?
Eyes, do you write down notes as you watch these documentaries or just go with gutts? I have a feeling i should take a pen and paper as i watch so that I wouldnt miss critical moments that easily.
One bombshell– among many. 2 out of 3 from point blank range? :
Anita Smithey: We were so close, like he was right there. We were so close. To the point that I think he was almost leaning on the gun.
She fired three shots, hitting Robert twice.
BOOM!! Good job, MW! Nice to see you here!