Robert Vanaman Trial Begins

Well, the Robert Vanaman Trial is set to begin!

May 11, 2006
Barbara Vanaman, 37, is pronounced dead at a Vineland hospital after being shot twice in the chest.

November 21, 2006

Robert Vanaman is arrested at his home after a six-month investigation.
It took SIX MONTHS!! That's unbelievable. The spouse is certainly the 1st
suspect in any murder. I am sure our local newspapers will cover this like a wet blanket

I just saw a website called The Bipolar X-Press and this person thinks Mr. Vanaman did it.
Another site called Excessive Discipline Protection Database defends the former police officer.


Comments anyone??

"So, let me get this straight.
Vanaman, a police vet of 17 years, could find no other option to conflict resolution than to put 2 bullets in his wife's chest?Wasn't he paying attention in training sessions and recertification classes in threat de-escalation?
Tell me that there was nothing within reach in his kitchen that he could have thrown to distract his knife wielding wife? Tell me that he has never been trained in disarming techniques - oh, that's right - they use rubber knives at the academy!
Couldn't he have used voice commands to take command of the situation?
Heck, even the 3 Stooges use these techniques:
Moe says to shovel-holding Curly: "Hey numbskull, your shoelaces are untied," Curly looks down and gets the double-fingered eye poke!
It looks like Vanaman conveniently forgot, and wasted, all that he pretended to learn while being on the job for 17 years.
Disgusting!"

"Vanaman will testify when it snows on the Fourth of July. The defense always says thet defendant will testify in his own behalf. We'll never know the whole truth, we'll hear the defense version and the prosecution version and the real truth always lies somewhere in between. So much for sworn oaths to tell the truth. From what I've seen so far. Vanaman's lawyer is doing everything that he can to get a mistrial before the trial even starts, that's his job. Posturing, posturing, posturing, meanwhile all the families involved go through hell. A little self control on both parties would have solved a lot of problems and heart ache."

"I am not completely convinced of his guilt...I want to hear from the experts. I knew Barbara off and on for over 25 years...and the offs were usually due to her superiority complex and condescending attitude. She wasn't always the sweet person she portrayed herself to be...she cheated repeatedly, was very nasty in conversation, and treated people (in my presence) as less than fully human on occasion. If she slipped up and did this in public, then I have to ask myself what she did in the privacy of her home when she wasn't being watched. I watched her treat some people with total disregard and disrespect for no other reason than she thought herself above them...so the lectures about what a wonderful woman she was are getting a little old for me. Nobody is perfect, and nobody except the people in that house know what happened and didn't happen there...the end."