My Thoughts on Traci Rhode

Traci Rhode, a convicted murderer, talked to 48 Hours this past weekend. The show was titled Point Blank. She sobbed her eyes out, yet oddly, a tear never fell from her face. Did you notice?

Furthermore, her voice whined in a high-pitched tone instead of sinking down with sorrow and pain. And every now and then, Traci would smirk or smile when talking about the events surrounding her husband’s death. I saw nothing in her behaviors or demeanor that supported honesty.

Add to that, Traci tells us her husband was über jealous, moving her across the country five times to keep her away from friends and family in thirteen years. I think everyone would agree by that statement that her husband was exceptionally jealous.

Read moreBut when you think about it, does a move like that make sense? Does a move like that help guarantee one will have no affairs? Would it give you peace if you were jealous? I don’t see much sense in that when I give it thought, do you? Each new move would bring new opportunities for new love interests. Is that what Scott really thought? While we will never know, it makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

What makes even less sense is that if Traci’s husband, Scott, was the exceptionally jealous type, why would she confess to him that there was someone else in her life?? This flat out doesn’t sit right with me.

Women who are married to very jealous men are usually victim beans about a new interest in their life who is male–friend or lover. They just wouldn’t do it, because they would fear for their life, or at the very minimum, they would fear the ridicule and sleuthing that would likely follow for years afterwards. That ridicule, after all, is what Traci tells us she had to endure for years. So why would she bring more of it on herself? Does it make any sense?

Yet, oddly, Traci doesn’t seem to have any fear about telling her husband about this new guy. It’s illogical. It’s a contradiction. When someone makes your life hell, you don’t add more fuel to the fire, unless of course, you have plans to eliminate the inferno. Or, there was no inferno at all.

Furthermore, if Scott was that jealous, Traci’s friends and family would have likely seen bouts of jealousy and perhaps controlling behavior, but instead Traci’s friend only tells us what Traci told her. She doesn’t seem to have any firsthand accounts herself. I find that odd as well. There should have been more clues. More people should have picked up on it, but we didn’t hear any supporting evidence outside of what Traci says.

I also found it odd what Traci said about her new “friend” with whom she shared a passionate kiss. She said it was “…good to have somebody pay attention to me.” This is another red flag.

Jealous men usually pay way too much attention to their wife. They never give them a minute of peace, so this, too, is a contradiction. A jealous husband is usually very demanding, and hands- on. If anything, the wife of a jealous husband would likely just want some free time alone without anyone bothering her. She certainly wouldn’t be clamoring for more attention — risky attention— that would just inflame the troubles she already has, would she? It defies logic.

Also, who commits suicide and puts a pillow over their face? Have you ever heard of this before? It’s even more strange for a guy to do this! It seems like an act of someone who is sanitary, who wants things clean. Who would have this motive? Scott or Traci? Wasn’t Traci a nurse? A nurse who says she is sensitive to the smell of blood?

I also find it very strange that Traci says she didn’t help Scott because she was in shock. She was a nurse.

There is also an unidentified palm print on the gun Scott supposedly used to kill himself. They say it doesn’t match Traci, the police or Scott. Have they ever tried to match it to Traci’s new love interest, Shawn? Whose palm print is this? I think this is important.

I also wonder was if anyone ever saw Traci that morning to verify that she took a walk? Or could she have been elsewhere? With someone else? Did she always take a morning walk, or did she only do it on this day?

What are the odds that within 10 days of husband’s death, Traci would be ready to sleep with Shawn, if she was a grieving wife who just wanted to work things out with her husband? And why would she hide it by going to The Red Roof Inn? She says they were only going there to talk–to talk about what? What would she have to talk to Shawn about?

What are the odds that her husband who supposedly committed suicide would even bother talking to a divorce attorney, and ask for full custody of the kids within 24 hours of his death? Why would he waste his time if he felt his time on this earth was over? Why would he bother bringing his wife to his attorney’s office? None of this makes any sense.

Traci’s last public account of her, and her husband together on 48 Hours wasn’t of them at odds at each other either. She says, “…I laid my head on his chest. It wasn’t anger anymore…it was just a loving couple just trying to work out our problems.”

So why would Scott feel so despondent? Traci gave into him that night.

What are the odds Traci would then date Shawn on and off for two and a half years after Scott’s death?

Did Scott break the camel’s back when he took Traci to his attorney that day? Did he infuriate her when he threatened to take the children away fairly and squarely with the legal system? Did he blindside her? Did she then play nice, go home and snap?

You sure do wonder.