Other messages purportedly sent to “two of her stripper friends” following the murder included the following:
“I’ll always remember the good times we had” and “Always remember me as Valentine”—her dancer name.
“I’m at peace with what I’ve decided to do” was another text she sent to the mother of an ex-boyfriend who was raising two of her children prior to the murder.
Her physicians and lawyers contended throughout the trial that she was experiencing a “psychotic episode” at the time of the murder and only recalled
“Bella clawing at her own neck and to holding Bella’s body while listening to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.”
Furthermore, according to one witness, she had “post-traumatic stress disorder rooted in her childhood in a Khmer Rouge death camp in her native Cambodia.”
