It's a crime, the way they treat you in jail

Everyone loved Laura Wallen, a high school teacher in Howard County, Maryland, so much so that when she failed to show up for work when school began last autumn, fellow teachers and students alike joined in the search.  And her boyfriend, the putative father of the baby she looked forward to delivering, appeared on television at a press conference, lugubriously weeping and begging for help in finding Laura as he held her mother's hand and did his level best to appear concerned.

Of course, the cops already knew what we all suspected...that Tessier had ALLEGEDLY killed Laura and disposed of her body at a place that his cell phone ping history showed him visiting time after time.  

Tessier was shortly thereafter arrested, and now takes his meals as a guest of the Howard County Detention Center, where he learned another lesson that anyone who ever watched a police movie knows: they listen to your phone calls, son!

Here's a bit of what he said on the phone to his father last October about how that Las Vegas massacre would actually help his defense:

“People forget; things happen. When something more important happens, it puts me out of the public eye.”

But of course, his attorney, public defender Allen Wolf, said this was a surprise to him ("I'm hearing things for the first time") and then said, "The state wants to do a little bit of a show, and they want him here."

Well, we're going to have that show later this year, when the trial finally gets underway in September.

Ms Wallen and Tessier 

Tessier's cynical hopes for more delays in his trial, since the longer it's been since the crime, the more likely that people will forget the whole doggone thing and let him go back to his previously busy social life, probably will not help him much.  People don't forget a horrible person who commits a horrible murder of a beloved person.  

But any goof on the street knows that jailers listen to phone calls and read letters and feed you bad chow.  Tyler Tessier didn't know that, which proves that he's not just any goof.