@cicerone imposter,
Quote:That's the reason she wrote to the news reporter. There will be a record about her fears, and that can be used in a court of law if anything should happen to her.
She's also establishing a record of how he's been acting in terms of his suicidal gestures and attempts--and, according to the reporter, Zimmerman had already taken an OD of pills once, in her house, and she couldn't rouse him, so she sat by his bed for hours and hours, in a high state of anxiety, making sure he was still breathing, because she didn't know what else to do. Had she called 911, for medical help, which is what she should have done, it would have resulted in massive media attention focused on his psychiatric state, and she feared what he might do to her about that. When she had insisted he go for psychiatric help, he blew up at her and threw her out of her own house. And, the day he was arrested, he had thrown her out again, something the police could verify for themselves because he was barricaded inside, which lends credibility to the behavior she had told the reporter about.
According to the reporter, her main reason for communicating with him was to spur George to get psychiatric help, if the texting led to an actual on-air interview with her, for which she would not have been paid, and she was not paid for any of the alleged info she did give the reporter by text and phone. And she kept postponing that actual interview, and she apparently thought that what she previously told the reporter was off the record and confidential.
But she was trying to protect herself, from what Zimmerman might do to her for revealing his psychiatric state, by telling the reporter about these things in advance of a sit-down on-air interview with him.
It was the reporter who made all of this public, to get his own scoop, and Scheibe has not commented on it, so we have not heard her side of this story and we haven't heard any of this info coming directly from her, or from her mother, who also communicated with the reporter, although I believe the mother has said that Scheibe was acting out of fear of Zimmerman in her communications with the reporter.
It sounds like Sheibe was at her wits end in trying to deal with Zimmerman's volatile mood states and her fears of what he might do to both of them. She was an old high school friend who reunited with him when his trial and his marriage ended, basically because she felt sorry for him, he was very depressed and she wanted to help him. They grew closer and he moved in with her, but, within a month, she really wanted to end the relationship, and she wanted him to get some help, and that's when she began communicating with the reporter. Prior to that, he'd blow up at her, but then apologize, and she'd forgive him. But her fears seem to have finally outweighed her ability to tolerate what she was having to live with.
All things considered, I don't see anything odd about her communicating with a reporter, given the fact she had a rather notorious person in her home, who was acting in a rather disturbed and threatening way, and she couldn't get him to leave or to go for help. And, the day he was arrested, she had told him to pack and get out, and after going through some motions of doing that, he apparently got really ticked off about it and that led to her calling 911.
Scheibe's communicating with the reporter is a lot more understandable, and considerably less odd, than Zimmerman's 911 call to the police, who were already pounding on the door, while he sat barricaded inside refusing them entry. And, never once during that calm, rather bizarre 911 call, did Zimmerman express any fears of harm from her, nor did he claim she had tried to harm him, so that wasn't why he was barricaded inside refusing to let the police in.