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I feel like this woman should have been charged

posted 2 years ago by Ticketsplease (4024)
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I just watched an FBI case on YouTube about a serial killer who used to approach women/teenage girls and tell them he is a modelling photographer.

He'd lure them to his car and then pull a gun.

They'd end up tortured, raped and killed.

But one 16 year old, named Tina Marie Risico, ended up being kidnapped and becoming his accomplice.

She even went into a mall and found a new victim for the serial killer, named Christopher Wilder.

She lured the girl to the car, and once kidnapped, drove the car while Chris raped her in the back.

She was later stabbed and left for dead in the woods. Miraculously she survived and waved down a car.

Christopher liked Tina and decided to spare her life.

She was driven to the airport, given a plane ticket and she flew back to California.

Did she call police?

No. She went shopping. Lingerie shopping. $300 worth!

She then went to her boyfriends home and he drove the missing, presumed dead girl to police.

I'm no psychologist, and I am aware of Stockholm Syndrome, but this takes the cake.

She failed to protect another girl.
She failed to call police at the airport.

It fell on the surviving woods victim to tell police that Wilder was en route to Canada.

What do you think, should she have been charged?

[–] jriley555 (8125) 2 years ago

Complicated. She did report. Yes, she objectively has some culpability, but also was instrumental, I'm assuming, in his ID & capture.

Plea deal would have been appropriate, imo, Some prison time, for sure.

[–] Ticketsplease (4024) 2 years ago

No, he was killed after police cornered him.

[–] jriley555 (8125) 2 years ago

OK, but he would have if he hadn't been killed right, or was her report only after his death. I saw a doc on this earlier, but forget the details. If she offered evidence useful at the time, in good faith, that counts for something.

I'm not arguing that she wasn't an accomplice for murder, but remember her situation, her likely state of mind, her youth. She didn't ask for any of that.

[–] Ticketsplease (4024) 2 years ago

She was under his mental control perhaps, but not physical control when she went and got him another victim.

[–] jriley555 (8125) 2 years ago

Have I argued otherwise ? Haven't I agreed she should face some accountability ? I'm not sure where you are going with this discussion. All I've tried to do is inject some of the complexity of the situation, which would/should inform any sentencing situation.

She'll have to live with the burden of her guilt for the rest of her life, after being accosted, raped & mind-fucked after going to the mall for some shopping, still a kid, easily manipulated, obviously. I'm sure its been no picnic for her, either. Or maybe she is, improbably, a sociopath. I don't actually know.

[–] TheMan18 (13016) 2 years ago

If I was the one who made this type of thread... Actually no, let's not quite go there (the bizarre, ultra long, highly emotional, winding road of an internet direction I would take it into, and with movie and various school and grandmother and family related references to boot, and me feeling a sense of shy embarrassment OR MAYBE AN UNDERSTANDING too, if it concerns not only women turning to dark sides, but possibly doing so under duress, and in still need of legal punishment, and in cases where we also see male err real life villains or just major perps involved.)

Then again, remember "Kara" and that film, but maybe this case was different, or the one "couple scene" from "Running Scared" (2006) (and this is with TONS of male VILLAINS involved and even the PROTAGONIST, played by the late, and RIP (this year will be a decade, ten years, since his James Dean-like sad car accident death) Paul Walker, being a bit shady himself, although mostly a good guy), or "Natural Born Killers" (1994) or the Japanese disturbing cult classic "Assault! Jack the Ripper" (1976) that had female accomplices of male antagonists?

But this story. Although as jriley not necessarily wrongly states, prison is necessary, perhaps, and I can't say I am qualified to argue, maybe he is right.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 2 years ago

Because there are SO MANY legal experts on fucking MovieChat.

[–] TheMan18 (13016) 2 years ago

There are many experts WANNABES that's for sure. :) Ditto for pseudo-intellectuals.

[–] Sparky (2615) 2 years ago

Maryland is trying to abolish felony murder charges for those under 25. None of this stuff surprises me anymore.

[–] Freakflag1 (126) 6 months ago

I just learned of this case and I have to say I do find her actions very confusing. She didn’t run or drive away when she had the chance. She didn’t go straight for help inside the mall when she lured the other girl out. She didn’t call for help at the airport. She went shopping. It’s so bizarre. I know trauma and stress can cause you to do some odd things but this is really weird to me.

[–] CaptBeefBlower (250) 6 months ago

Stockholm syndrome isn't real. Regarding Rosico, she should have been charged. Also, several women in Epstein's employ, possibly including Virginia Giuffre, should have been investigated on the grounds of grooming too.

I honestly think that if these people had been male they would have been charged and convicted.