Propensity evidence could be lead, but it’s tricky. For instance it could be lead that Erin P previously tried to poison someone see her husband, but there may be insufficient medical or forensic evidence to prove it. No trial happened, there was no conviction previously so you cannot lead that.
Traffic offences are just that. Unless she committed a traffic offence in the commission of this particular series of crimes (poisoning her in laws and relative) then it can’t be lead.
The law is very tricky to talk about it just is.
On motivation, it’s obvious but worth stating that situations like this are based on intense but inappropriate feelings. Erin P had a fractious relationship with her own parents. She did lead evidence that her mother would very often weigh her as a child and this gave her self esteem issues, and certainly it would have been humiliating. Her side of the family was missing at her own wedding and this goes to poor attachment bonds.
It seems like she had a pattern of isolation, brooding and dealing with rejection that would include doing things to provoke it and anticipate it too early and thereby provoke it.
I would guess with the Neptune and Pisces elements so strong in the chart plus the powerful oppositions and sun Pluto Mars conjunction that she largely lived in a fantasy world where she exacted revenge on those who she felt excluded by. This might include former colleagues and family but it also might include the pranks on colleagues she mistakenly thought would make her appear funny and give her the popularity she lacked and craved. Being so intelligent, she did things to make others look stupid to reassure herself of her superiority. Living in a fantasy world as she did, she didn’t realise that she wasn’t as smart as she thought.
She had exaggerated feelings of betrayal; the breakdown of her marriage which she refused to accept, the apparently mistaken idea that she had been excluded from a family gathering. She may have been, but clearly the problem is the intensity of the reaction.
There was a wall in her previous house that was photographed by the painter called in to paint over it, where there were disturbing scribblings about death, revenge and other motifs. Done in a childlike manner, with stick figures the content was so disturbing it must have come from her. The prosecution did not lead this particular evidence, no doubt because of the ambiguity involved in drawing a useful connection as proof she committed the offences in the particular charges before the courts. Like I said in a previous post in here, propensity is one thing proof is another.
Recovery from childhood abuse is so important. It seems like Erin P didn’t seek out the help she needed and nor did she want it.
I helped someone very similar to this; super intelligent and manipulative but she was down on her luck. She had an unhealthy relationship with her own mother who was an alcoholic and a narcissist. A single mother of a child she was monstrously jealous of anyone who came close to that child. I pointed out the child needed a room of her own and sleeping in the same bed as her when the child was 7 was a bit suffocating. She took this badly. I won’t go into it anymore than that but happy to say even though she stole from me and bad mouthed me to others, she is out of my life now. The only way she would leave was to try to bring me down. She exploited my kindness and that I was sick at the time. Otherwise she signalled she was planning to stay at my house indefinitely until she found something that suited her. Physically she resembled Erin P. Her chart is alarmingly similar. Because I hadn’t signed any legal agreement with her, I gave her notice and forced her out. It was a hard thing to do.
I feel for that child of hers and the children of Erin P. Dealing wth the aftermath would be a very difficult thing for the husband who has lost his parents and sister, and now must try to rebuild his children in a psychologically healthy way. One for the experts and for the community which it is to be hoped, is being supportive and kind to the children who must live with this for the rest of their lives. They also need to learn that manipulative behaviour will bring you down. Neptune can be associated with delusion and passive aggressive behaviour.
