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onehandle

(51,122 posts)
Thu Nov 21, 2013, 11:51 PM Nov 2013

George Zimmerman's Estranged Wife: He's 'Like A Ticking Time Bomb'

Source: Huffington Post



George Zimmerman's estranged wife says the infamous neighborhood watch guard is now acting "like a monster."

In an interview with Katie Couric, Shellie Zimmerman described how she hopes there are "no more casualties" caused by her husband's erratic behavior. She also remembers how the couple was very much in love when they first married.

"We were great friends and I thought he was a wonderful person -- that's why I married him," she said Thursday on "Katie."

But Shellie, who who filed for divorce on Tuesday says she hasn't seen her husband in a few months, and it now seems like something has "snapped in his spirit."

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/21/shellie-zimmerman_n_4316412.html



Zimmy is the quintessential gun nut. He's their classic poster boy and hero.
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George Zimmerman's Estranged Wife: He's 'Like A Ticking Time Bomb' (Original Post) onehandle Nov 2013 OP
Zimmy's story has all the signs that cosmicone Nov 2013 #1
I nailed it: there was NO DOUBT he stuck a gun in Trayvon's face Skittles Nov 2013 #2
For Trayvon Martin and his family, he is not a "ticking time bomb": he's already exploded. FailureToCommunicate Nov 2013 #3
+1 n/t DallasNE Nov 2013 #28
Exactly, FTC. Cha Nov 2013 #33
He has some serious issues going on in his head, it's just a matter of time 'till he blows. n/t RKP5637 Nov 2013 #4
Till he blows AGAIN -- you mean. Kablooie Nov 2013 #9
Yep! Again, he'll do it again. Thanks for the clarification! n/t RKP5637 Nov 2013 #14
to all women who think their BF's/hubbies are wonderful early on: wordpix Nov 2013 #5
good advice nt Tumbulu Nov 2013 #10
You bet your sweet bippy. nolabear Nov 2013 #29
The best guys... nikto Nov 2013 #41
A gender neutral warning would have worked DaveJ Nov 2013 #45
Really? Ya THINK???? n/t Ian David Nov 2013 #6
Wrong, lady! - He's not "like a ticking time bomb" - ! Aristus Nov 2013 #7
He's like a ticking time bomb. Wash. state Desk Jet Nov 2013 #11
It's not as if his wife is just now coming to this revelation Major Nikon Nov 2013 #34
Well, yer right she married him ,certainly she saw aspects of his dark side, Wash. state Desk Jet Nov 2013 #39
Or maybe, just maybe... nikto Nov 2013 #42
I would suppose you could go there looking to rationalize what it's all about for him . Wash. state Desk Jet Nov 2013 #43
Clearly Zimmerman has himself positioned firmly in news for a while. Wash. state Desk Jet Nov 2013 #44
That's what everyone (including me) has been saying. Nothing new here. tofuandbeer Nov 2013 #8
Georgie thinks he's a bad ass davidpdx Nov 2013 #12
She better just be glad he didnt take HER out. jessie04 Nov 2013 #13
SAD, BUT SO AVOIDABLE drynberg Nov 2013 #15
the thundering silence from zimpig supporters heaven05 Nov 2013 #16
Somebody paid his bail and it wasn't him. onehandle Nov 2013 #17
I heard that it was that pal of his who was constantly avebury Nov 2013 #18
They STILL support him!! Amimnoch Nov 2013 #21
most of them were exterminated noiretextatique Nov 2013 #24
+1000 heaven05 Nov 2013 #27
Just when you billh58 Nov 2013 #31
Gun lovers made their bed with Zimmerman. Now they can lie in it and get the fleas too. nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2013 #19
He already went off. Ash_F Nov 2013 #20
Yep. And no one has dismantled it. Yavin4 Nov 2013 #22
So, what she's saying is people at DU louis-t Nov 2013 #23
Why don't the personal responsibilty types noiretextatique Nov 2013 #25
Responsibility? billh58 Nov 2013 #26
How does ownership of an object deprive another of life? NutmegYankee Nov 2013 #35
This is not an accusation billh58 Nov 2013 #36
Isn't this statement a bit uncalled for? NutmegYankee Nov 2013 #37
Tell it to the billh58 Nov 2013 #38
I have no reason to go there. NutmegYankee Nov 2013 #40
nope, even after all the evidence proved he was an innocent victim fascisthunter Nov 2013 #30
He's already gone off...once! AlbertCat Nov 2013 #32
The legal system is often fooled by this type of person DaveJ Nov 2013 #46
 

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)
1. Zimmy's story has all the signs that
Thu Nov 21, 2013, 11:53 PM
Nov 2013

it will be a three act tragedy and won't end well.

That man needs serious jail time and jailhouse therapy.

wordpix

(18,652 posts)
5. to all women who think their BF's/hubbies are wonderful early on:
Fri Nov 22, 2013, 12:37 AM
Nov 2013

Get to know him first---- for at least two years before you get serious/move in with him/marry/have children and see how wonderful he is BEFORE any of that happens.

Do not ignore warning signs. The guy who slaps or threatens you once the first year could be a deadly killer further down the line when the stress, bills and diapers pile up.

Just sayin'

nolabear

(41,959 posts)
29. You bet your sweet bippy.
Fri Nov 22, 2013, 08:54 PM
Nov 2013

One strike and I'm OUT. I've been fortunate with men but having had a father that was a hitter (never our mother, but us? Oh yeah.) I swore that there were NO second chances. I don't care why, or what, or who.

 

nikto

(3,284 posts)
41. The best guys...
Mon Nov 25, 2013, 03:41 AM
Nov 2013

ALWAYS give the freshly-filled cannabis pipe to their spouse/significant other
for the first toke.

Any dude who takes the 1st toke for himself----Ladies, steer clear
!

DaveJ

(5,023 posts)
45. A gender neutral warning would have worked
Tue Nov 26, 2013, 05:55 AM
Nov 2013

As a guy I should have heeded that advice as well awhile back (slapping and all). Luckily we didn't have kids.

Aristus

(66,316 posts)
7. Wrong, lady! - He's not "like a ticking time bomb" - !
Fri Nov 22, 2013, 01:00 AM
Nov 2013

He's already gone off. And killed an innocent, unarmed young man.

And he didn't become a monster after the verdict; he already was one.

Grow a brain, woman...

Wash. state Desk Jet

(3,426 posts)
11. He's like a ticking time bomb.
Fri Nov 22, 2013, 04:12 AM
Nov 2013

Last edited Fri Nov 22, 2013, 04:53 AM - Edit history (1)

The opportunity to fulfill his fantasies presented itself when he shot and killed the teen aged young man. It was a crime of opportunity to Zimmerman. Zimmerman who is a predator now has a taste for killing,something up until he shot Travon Martin he had fantasized about for years no doubt. That taste turns to thirst and there is just where he is that ticking time bomb. Pacing back and fourth like a lion as was said by his estranged wife-, that behavior is a definitive red flag up.

What is safe to assume now given what has come into common knowledge about his strange behavior since the outcome of the trial ,is that Zimmerman went into full predator mode when he stalked Travon Martin.

He may not have known of his mind going into it that he was going to shoot Martin,but shooting somebody,anybody has been in his fantasies for a very long time no doubt. It happened to be Travon Martin.

Really it's more about the progressive phases predators pass through. As far as we know Zimmerman crossed the line for the first time when he shot Travon Martin.
That's where something snapped and what Zimmerman's estranged wife noticed is the side effects. Racing thoughts-, high's and lows. Depressed ? ,sure it equates to self pity. You can call him a gun freak poster boy,but I'll tell you what, I don't think he's a hot item on the gun circuit,you know paid appearances and all that. Have you seem Zimmerman on Jay Leno ? Book deals, read anything about that ? I doubt Zimmerman has seen any hot prospects down those avenues either. Because of it he no doubt feels let down -abandoned-is consumed with self pity.

What about his web site-is money still poring in ? Not since he beat it in court-so the cash cow stopped.
So he's depressed-consumed with self pity.His fantasies about stardom just didn't happen.

He points a gun at a woman who took him in and hid him -because his wife was looking to serve him with divorce papers. He threatens to shoot her,,than he tells her he has nothing to lose. The red flag there is he has the thirst for killing. The only stopper is he may not have fully excepted or embraced what he is ,or what is a serial killer . That means he might not know yet for sure.That the pacing cat or lion. THE GROWING THIRST.

Killers are not born with blood dripping down a knife in their hands. Zimmerman is not the first of his kind either. He knows how it all works ,how to cover his tracks ,the in's and outs.

The electronic monitoring device might help but if he dumps it and turns himself loose there may another mall massacre-or worse yet he beats this one and the courts turn him loose and from there it's the waiting game until he kills again.

His nice guy act isn't going to work anymore,and that loss is no gain for him.He lost his mask.

And he isn't going to grow another one.











Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
34. It's not as if his wife is just now coming to this revelation
Sun Nov 24, 2013, 09:25 AM
Nov 2013

She had to have known and had she spoken up sooner I don't believe things would have turned out the same. I believe she just hung around long enough to see if there was going to be a big payday for him so she could cash out and when that didn't happen she bailed anyway. I don't blame her for what he did or any of the outcomes. She undoubtedly has plenty of reasons to fear him, but had she told her story sooner he could be in jail where she and everyone else would be a safer. It's a shame that didn't happen.

Wash. state Desk Jet

(3,426 posts)
39. Well, yer right she married him ,certainly she saw aspects of his dark side,
Sun Nov 24, 2013, 04:02 PM
Nov 2013

Last edited Sun Nov 24, 2013, 04:45 PM - Edit history (1)

but confusing another person as to what one saw,experienced and what one's perception tells one is an area in manipulation the predator becomes well versed in by way of detour through grooming. I say so because it seems rather obvious watching her in those interviews that she cannot say in exacts just what it is she knows or knew. This is to say she can't make sense of it all because much or most of it defies logic or there isn't any.Predators will force their way through form time to time and when they do they go immediately into grooming mode.They are always seemingly so very very sorry about that and convincingly so.It is more often than not an explosive situtaion seemingly coming out of nowhere for no reason. I mean who would want to except that what one saw in just but a moment in time even though it was seen numerous times in moments that what you saw in a moment through just a glimpse is who and what that is always behind the mask. You see ,thats the monster. And anything can set that off or a combination of things .

Zimmerman is a groomer and has honed his skills at that throughout his life.
His father was career military ,and Zimmerman created the perfect character front which is what he thought is exactly what his father also the disciplinarian wanted him to be.So,he shows you only what he wants you to see.But again from time to time the predator will just force it's way through. The predator's goal through grooming is to steer the victim away from processing what was seen and experienced or redirecting the victims perception .

I just reread Zimmerman's former co workers statement about Zimmerman about having reported Zimmerman's abusive ways at a car max dealership. He said Zimmerman was so damn good at telling those lies convincingly and making himself out to be the truth itself displaying an almost highly religious unbelievably believable character portrayal that the guy actually doubted himself. Zimmerman became so good at grooming that his victim upon confronting Zimmerman in front of superiors actually doubted himself. That might be a little hard to get a mind wrap around but it is understandable if you understand how predators operate.

Now, that's pretty powerful stuff.
And to try and figure out how it is Zimmerman honed those skills you really have to consider what discipline or disciplinary measures ment to Zimmerman if and when he stepped outside the strict guide lines his father set upon him in adolescence. And the church.The alter boy who would never never break the golden rule.

So sure, Zimmerman's wife knows, she has it all down through her experiences with Zimmerman, but reaching it through higher understanding, putting the picture in it's proper prospective ,that she hasn't done, not because she doesn't want to but because she hasn't reached it in the same way some people never reach their full potential or refuse to for whatever the reasons.


That doesn't make her guilty of negligence or an accomplice. She did say that Zimmerman is not the man she thought she married and that she doesn't know who he is or what exactly.
What she does know is that she must divorce him and break away form what that is. What she doesn't realize no doubt is that she must learn how to protect herself from what that is always because there is a lot of that or predators out there.

Zimmerman's final option was to become a career cop. At 28 years of age he decided law enforcement was his best bet. He tried different jobs ,careers but none seemed to suit him. In law enforcement all those experiences add in considerably ,in fact it is recommended that potential candidates gain experience before they apply. So Zimmerman had himself a little tight nit portfolio through his seeming failures at career ambitions. In other words ,the makings of a good cop as would have been seen or viewed on paper.

When Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin in that moment ,he realized his career ambitions ,his whole life in front of him was on the line. Zimmerman is all about Zimmerman so that is all that matters to him. So he put the incident together in his mind to make it's outcome out to be in his best interest. He says he was jumped,the kid got on top of him than said yer gonna die tonight. Zimmerman created the perfect scenario carefully tailored to suit his own interests.

What were his chances of pursuing a career in law enforcement after the incident actually ?
How would Zimmerman have groomed his way past the psychological evaluations required before acceptance into a police academe and prior to graduation?

Self pity is something that changes to revenge motivation for the predator.That is what Zimmerman means when he says he has nothing left to lose. His do gooder act ran out ,so whats he got left ?

And that's the question left behind for everybody and anybody. Whats Zimmerman going to do next ?

He is a predator.






 

nikto

(3,284 posts)
42. Or maybe, just maybe...
Mon Nov 25, 2013, 03:50 AM
Nov 2013

It is possible Zimmerman is very much NOT made of "killer material", and cannot emotionally reconcile what he did
with being a "normal" and "good" person, regardless of what he might say publically.

Only HE really knows how it all went down, and how cold-blooded the actual shooting was.
The only other witness was Trayvon.

Bullet went, center of the heart, from what I read.

This is almost certainly the most UN-equivocal thing Zimmerman ever did in his life.

If he regrets it on some level now, he could never admit it publically, leaving him
very very alone, and mis-understood.

That is very isolating---Most people do not handle isolation well at all.

There could also be a deep-seated self-hatred growing like a tumor inside him.
Quite possible, I think.









Or I could be wrong.

Wash. state Desk Jet

(3,426 posts)
43. I would suppose you could go there looking to rationalize what it's all about for him .
Mon Nov 25, 2013, 07:51 AM
Nov 2013

Deep seated self hatred and he gains a lot of weight now because he's depressed ?
I don't know about that. Selling cars, selling insurance ,selling real estate ,all about getting it over on people through sales. So he's real good at working people, getting it over on people. He just couldn't work his way into something lucrative by it.And now he knows he doesn't fool the camera ,in fact it exposes him-or he exposes himself when he tries to strut his stuff in front of the camera. That happens to a little something Susan Smith and George Zimmerman share in common.Susan Smith murdered her two children by driving her car into the water and they drowned. She said her car and kids were kidnapped . She told it in front of the camara telling the world actually. But she told two different versions about what happened. With her mouth she articulated her version of what happened,but her face and her body language told something very different . Thing of it was, it didn't take a trained eye to know it.

In fact the cops handling the case upon watching that on tv in South Carolina looked at each other and said -she killed those kids . And millions of people watching drew that very same conclusion.

So my guess is the first time he watched himself in a rerun he figured out he didn't pull it off.
And I would venture to guess further that he told himself he has to do better the next time. Oh and I imagine his lawyer instructed Zimmerman about that too.Eventually he must have realized he couldn't do his thing in front of the camaras. It didn't work.

I think what he regrets is everything he thought he was working tword vanished when he took the law into his own hands. Imagine Zimmerman saying ,everything was for nothing wallowing in his self pity. I see Zimmerman as being a narcissistic sociopath.


Eh, you know I could be wrong but I doubt it. What I do know is if you are looking for logical sense to made about Zimmerman's actions or after thought,there isn't any to be found.
Zimmerman is all about Zimmerman. He dialed 911-the dispatcher was way far away-he did not knock on any doors or alert any of the residents to what was happening- get them to look out windows ,you know,alert the community, not because there was no time for that,but because he was going to handle it himself,his way.

Isn't it possible he was manipulating the 911 dispatcher in the very same way he manipulates anybody he has manipulated ? There just has to be a pattern there. Did you catch the 911 dispatchers testimony in court ? Did you know she actually thought he would make a very good auxiliary cop at that time ? Zimmerman knew how to work or play as the saying goes 911 dispatch. And they knew him or they thought they did.

All of that factors into Zimmermans emerging pattern which is as of yet somewhat illusive but not impossible to piece together.

If he has a conscience you might be right to some extent but I just don't think he has one.

Wash. state Desk Jet

(3,426 posts)
44. Clearly Zimmerman has himself positioned firmly in news for a while.
Mon Nov 25, 2013, 06:37 PM
Nov 2013

He's got himself new legal representation . He's no doubt looking forward to taking another shot at strutting his stuff in front of the cameras as will be seen on TV.

Somewhere in some kind of deep seated way Zimmerman must have serious confidence in his ability to get it over on people.
Drawing a line between some dots here from the fellow employee at car max who was manipulated by Zimmerman to Zimmerman's wife through that jail house phone call where the two of them were speaking in some kind foolishly arranged code talk. And of course the phone conversation was tapped. Zimmerman is not stupid ,he knew the phones are tapped in the jails,and he knew the badly con cocked code talk was just a futile attempt ,but his wife didn't.

She went for it hook ,line and sinker.And he knew she would and as a result of that her credibility is damaged . What's his attorney going to do to her testimony given the damage done to her credibility ?

The local police department in Zimmerman's locality apparently had no use Zimmerman as a potential academe candidate- but it does appear he was being seriously look at as a possible or even probable candidate in Virginia. All Zimmerman had to do was fix his credit rating issues.
Simply buy a used car on time payments than make arrangements with his creditors to make time payments. No big deal really.

The question remaining to that end is ,was Zimmerman assigned as case handler back there in Virginia considering he was being looked at as a potential candidate.Not that it makes any difference in the case at hand -but it does say something about where it was going in Zimmerman's world at the time of the shooting.

Apparently Zimmerman and his wife were having marital issues back than.Demonstrates something about Zimmerman's mind set at the time of the incident.

Perhaps Zimmerman didn't see there was a place for his wife in Virginia should he have been excepted. He credit rating wasn't stellar,all he had to do was fix it. No big deal.
All of which is clear water over the dam now because he completely washed out.

As far as what is a bitch he has one thing left to hold on to. Pardon the pun but it's going somewhere I assure you.

Getting it over on it as seen on TV. The grand scam.The best show he ever put on with a national television audience. High flying Zimmerman.

The opportunity to pull off on television what he has been pulling off all along drawing his victims in every step of the way.
He would like to convince you that it was he who was drawn into this through no fault of his own and he is the nice guy true and blue and he got shafted because he just wanted to help.
And because of it he will have you believe ,he lost everything.

And he is confident he can get it over on everybody because after all necessity does predict the outcome.His motivation is he thinks he was robbed of a comfortable living for the rest of his life. That to him is everything turned to nothing. And for that he seeks revenge in the worst possible ways.

And becoming the news is one of those ways.Revenge motivation.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
16. the thundering silence from zimpig supporters
Fri Nov 22, 2013, 10:22 AM
Nov 2013

is deafening. Where ya at, now!!!!!????? If any zimpig jury members read this site. SHAME ON YOU!!!!!!

avebury

(10,952 posts)
18. I heard that it was that pal of his who was constantly
Fri Nov 22, 2013, 10:50 AM
Nov 2013

on TV during the trial (Frank Taffie (sp?)).

 

Amimnoch

(4,558 posts)
21. They STILL support him!!
Fri Nov 22, 2013, 12:11 PM
Nov 2013

A few days ago there was an article about him and his new girlfriend involved in a domestic violence episode where he was arrested! I'd taken that article and posted it on a couple of the "battleground" political chat boards I also frequent, and the same idiots that supported him all throughout the murder of Trayvon Martin trial STILL defend this man!

One of my adversaries in particular had the NERVE to tell me that it was the "left wing-nuts", "left wing media" and "*bleep's* like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton" who "broke this poor innocent christian man with their liberal crusade to persecute him"!!!!!

Really!! they are THAT fucked up!!!

noiretextatique

(27,275 posts)
24. most of them were exterminated
Fri Nov 22, 2013, 01:49 PM
Nov 2013

at least from here. i made it my mission to alert on every one of those hideous ghouls. anyone who believes that zimmerman has any redeeming qualities is a sociopath, just like him.

billh58

(6,635 posts)
31. Just when you
Sat Nov 23, 2013, 02:14 PM
Nov 2013

thought it was safe to go back in the water... A zimpig supporter has shown their undying love for the "victim" Zimmy down thread.

Yavin4

(35,437 posts)
22. Yep. And no one has dismantled it.
Fri Nov 22, 2013, 12:22 PM
Nov 2013

Instead, it walks around waiting to go off again. If you see something, say something.

louis-t

(23,292 posts)
23. So, what she's saying is people at DU
Fri Nov 22, 2013, 01:31 PM
Nov 2013

were right about his mental state. However, the gun nuts and the NRA will argue that the Liberals and the Liberal media are at fault. They "drove him to this".

noiretextatique

(27,275 posts)
25. Why don't the personal responsibilty types
Fri Nov 22, 2013, 01:52 PM
Nov 2013

EVER take personal responsibility? Zimmerman never showed an iota of remorse for murdering Trayvon.

billh58

(6,635 posts)
26. Responsibility?
Fri Nov 22, 2013, 02:22 PM
Nov 2013

The Second Amendment doesn't require, or even mention responsibility, because My Rights, Liberty, and Freedom. My right to keep and bear arms trumps everyone's right to life and you can't make me be responsible. My gun is my precious.

From the mind and lips of a paranoid gun nut...

NutmegYankee

(16,199 posts)
35. How does ownership of an object deprive another of life?
Sun Nov 24, 2013, 03:06 PM
Nov 2013

Ownership and legal use of firearms doesn't take someone's life away. That premise is a fallacy. Sure, said object could be used to take someone's life, but that is an illegal act of a person. When it is implied that mere ownership of a firearm makes a person a killer, that also applies to people who hunt or engage in marksmanship like President Obama and SOS Kerry. There are millions of perfectly rational reasonable people out there who exercise their second amendment right.

And since the accusation might be made incorrectly, a quick search of DU will show I think Zimmerman is a murderer.

billh58

(6,635 posts)
36. This is not an accusation
Sun Nov 24, 2013, 03:20 PM
Nov 2013

but a statement made by a Gungeoneer who I believe has since been PPR'd. No I don't have a link, but it has been cited on several occasions on DU. The statement asserted that the Constitution does not enumerate a "right to life" but it DOES enumerate a right to keep and bear arms. Hence, "my right to own a gun trumps your right to life."

Now you may continue with your defense of the NRA.

NutmegYankee

(16,199 posts)
37. Isn't this statement a bit uncalled for?
Sun Nov 24, 2013, 03:49 PM
Nov 2013

"Now you may continue with your defense of the NRA." Nowhere in my post did I make any statement about the NRA. Millions of sportsmen in the United States are not members. In fact, the vast majority aren't.

As for the rest, the right to not be deprived of life without due process is in the 5th amendment.

DaveJ

(5,023 posts)
46. The legal system is often fooled by this type of person
Tue Nov 26, 2013, 06:12 AM
Nov 2013

I've known his type before, they are incorrigible, might even be oblivious to what they did. It seems rare that any sort of punishment or therapy changes the way they behave. And when they are caught, they seem to have no idea what they did wrong, because they really have no moral fiber in the first place, which makes normal people feel bad about what they did. Police and the legal system seem fairly susceptible to being deceived by these types.

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