Doreen and Stephen Marfeo

[SP4CE INV4DERZ]

Anyone who watches the segment and thinks he is innocent, I can understand. To be honest, my spider tingly senses weren't going off here but after the update of him killing another woman just shows what he was capable of... and it leans pretty heavily in favour of guilty.

[DALLASTEXAN!!]

Originally Posted by SP4CE INV4DERZ

Anyone who watches the segment and thinks he is innocent, I can understand. To be honest, my spider tingly senses weren't going off here but after the update of him killing another woman just shows what he was capable of... and it leans pretty heavily in favour of guilty.

I can’t remember watching this segment and ever thinking that he was innocent. The only thing going for him was that his in laws liked him and took his side. It’s kind of sad in retrospect that they didn’t encourage her to leave him when she had the chance. Not that any of that changes anything though. He was really weird and I cringe any time I see the segment and he’s staring out of his window pretending to act like he’s waiting on her or something.

[WishfulDreamer]

Originally Posted by DALLASTEXAN!!

He was really weird and I cringe any time I see the segment and he’s staring out of his window pretending to act like he’s waiting on her or something.

Same. I've seen people mention on here it's like a Folgers commercial as he sips his coffee and the music plays.

[DALLASTEXAN!!]

Originally Posted by WishfulDreamer

Same. I've seen people mention on here it's like a Folgers commercial as he sips his coffee and the music plays.

[Lady_Kaye]

Made my skin crawl. Didn’t believe a word he said.

[Allierain]

Originally Posted by Lady_Kaye

Made my skin crawl. Didn’t believe a word he said.

Same. The fact that Doreen’s own family backed him up is downright disgusting. If I had one wish regarding this case it would be to ask them to explain themselves now. They should be ashamed.

[DALLASTEXAN!!]

Originally Posted by Lady_Kaye

Made my skin crawl. Didn’t believe a word he said.

Welcome! definitely agree. I don't know who I dislike more, he or Mark Nichols. Some how I think Marfeo come off as more of a self centered prick but Nichols looks more guilty.

[Clockwork]

From what I remember about the segment the thing that makes him look guilty is his demeanor, not the evidence so much. In a way he is a bit of a Paul Pollis type of case. Pollis really has no physical evidence against him, but does come across as weird in the interview.

If you take away Steven's demeanor and the fact that he killed his next girlfriend before killing himself then I will agree that it looks like Doreen could have just left him. Maybe with her lack of support from her family was enough for her to say "Screw it". It wouldn't be the first time. However, I do think he killed her.

[Rayroy]

I don't know about all of you, but the moment I saw this guy's eyes and then he spoke, I knew he killed her. It was obvious. Maybe it's from growing up in New York, you learn to survive by catching the fakers and he was clearly fake, at least to me. The update more shocked me because I thought there would just be an update where the police charged him or he finally confessed. I think he did not confess when he committed suicide because he didn't want to hurt her mother and sister because they believed him. It didn't occur to him that killing his ex-girlfriend would make it fairly obvious that he killed his wife. Everything about this guy appeared fake to me. He was trying to sell an image for the cameras. He reminds me of the narcissists I've known who think they're so clever that they have everyone fooled. The only reason they might fool people is because those people would not do some of those things and assume others are the same.

[Rayroy]

Originally Posted by economistman192

The fact that he hired a private investigator to trail her (like he probably did his ex-girlfriend) told me everything I needed to know about him. Men who are that controlling, usually snap if they find out a woman wants to leave them - maybe he found out about an affair. I believe he wrote the letters and I think he made the whole thing up about her having a nervous breakdown. I don't think she talked to him about anything at all!

She likely did tell him something. She likely asked him not to kill her.

[nicoge21]

I remember seeing this case on lifetime back in the early 2000’s and that scary blue update came on and said what happened in 1999. It was horrible.

[ghosthouse]

Originally Posted by Allierain

Same. The fact that Doreen’s own family backed him up is downright disgusting. If I had one wish regarding this case it would be to ask them to explain themselves now. They should be ashamed.

IDK I always saw that as them having to come to grips with either he killed her or she ran away on her own - and they were clinging to the one that leaves the possibility that she's still alive.

[TheCars1986]

I will admit that despite his smug interview, I was shocked when that text update first appeared on Lifetime reruns.

[Allierain]

Originally Posted by ghosthouse

IDK I always saw that as them having to come to grips with either he killed her or she ran away on her own - and they were clinging to the one that leaves the possibility that she's still alive.

I can totally see your point, in fact I would probably feel the same about a missing family member. I think we all would want to believe a missing loved one is still alive.

But Doreen’s family’s aggressive defense of Stephen leaves me like…..what? Why? Why did they specifically believe he was not responsible? That is what I would like to ask them. My immediate “true crime” thought is sister was having an affair with him. Or at least she was attracted to him. But seriously now, I’m at a loss at to why they seemed to like him so much, he was so smug. The older I get the more I believe water finds its own level.