The Asunta Case, Netflix

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Hi. Just wondered if anyone is watching this. I'm only on Episode 3, so no spoilers as yet please, but it would be good to get some discussion going.
Thanks.

Binged and now finished!

I’ve watched 3 episodes so far too.

Mmmmm dragged on so went from ep 1 to the trial.

I’ve just started watching. I tend to deliberately stay away from crime series, but giving this a watch. I’m only on the first episode. I will say it’s absolutely disgusting that they fake cried when the police came knowing exactly what they’d done. I guess you gotta attempt to put on a convincing show in such circumstances.

I watched this and thought it was good. I was familiar with the case, which is a really strange one - I don’t think they ever managed to get to the bottom of “why?”.

I am literally watching this on ep 4 so far and now I know what's probably going to happen thanks to the replies even though Op said no spoilers.
How annoying, that'll teach me to mumnsnet whilst watching tv.

Just finished episode 2. I'm disturbed the conversation at the end of the episode.

I'm not invested enough to keep watching after tonight and the mother does my head in.

I think it's all a mess of a show, not very good, and just chaotic.

They're both fucking unhinged.

The mother did my absolute nut in. A qualified lawyer, and yet she came across as being completely pathetic and thick not to mention evil.
Poor, poor Asunta ...

Sorry about any spoilers to anyone not yet finished. But I guess it's difficult to keep everyone happy when we're all at different stages of viewing.

On ep 5 now (home off sick) - the mother is so annoyingly unbearable.

She really is. Everything about her annoyed me, from the way she walked to her whiny voice, silly hair and open-mouthed expression.

Did we ever find out how that guys semen got in her T shirt? I must have missed it.

No!! It occurred to me that this part seemed to be forgotten about

Spoiler stop reading now…

The semen they said was either from the lab or placed there deliberately . Seems more likely the former. But they never said which.

i found it a really shocking case, the pills for me confirmed the parents guilt. No way she had 27 pills in her from anyone else, or was drugged for 3 months, by herself or someone else. And I suspect the father was the one who tried to kill her the first time, hence why they didn’t report it. And the mother did it the last time, and he helped cover it up.

for me they are guilty as charged.

What was their motive? I haven’t finished watching it yet and not sure I will to be honest. So sorry if this was explained

No it was never really explained, as clearly they weren’t for admitting it. It was suggested the mother was overwhelmed by her daughter.

id assume the relationship wasn’t good. The way Asunta spoke about them to her teacher, saying they were giving her white powder, the way the mother called her the girl. The mother also had mental health issues. And quite frankly he wasn’t portrayed as the sanest either, besotted by the mother and would do anything with her.

but yeah the implication was they were overwhelmed by raising assunta.

I'm sure they said that the scissors they'd used to cut the t shirt with had been used and not cleaned from a prior test and that's how the dna had got on there

I'm so confused about why they did it though. They seemed to be so proud of her, or at least that's how it was portrayed who knows how they really were in real life.
If it wasn't for the being drugged for 3 months then going off the series alone I would have thought the parents could be innocent.

One suggestion the mother did it to get away from her ex as he said that they would alwaybe linked by asunta. That doesn't link to him drugginh her though.

The other is he was abusing her, had porn of asian woman in his lap top and he said we go to prison or you be a mother of a missing girl.

I wasn’t so sure he was abusing her, or was sexually attracted, although the Asian porn thing was very weird. But he could have been, drugging her at his house and doing that.

i don’t really know why they were so heavily drugging her in the first place to be honest. And it seemed to be him. Asunta was drugged so heavily she could barely function the next day.

as the lawyer said, there is clearly a dark truth they were hiding, that was worse than the murder itself.

hes still proclaiming his innocence apparently, but I don’t beleive for one moment either of them were innocent. At the very least he knew and covered it up. But my money is on he didn’t turn his wife in, as what she could say about him was going to be very bad. So they protected each other.

i also didn’t get the convo in prison, where they talked about doing the thing. But never said what the thing was.

overall though, whatever heinous things they did to that child, and then her death, could only have been them.

I watched this and fast forwarded through parts of it, particularly of the mother - yeah she's very irritating. But 6 episodes was hard going. I was confused about motive etc but had assumed I missed it when fasting forward. I mainly watched to find out the outcome.

Honestly I don’t think thr prosecutors ever really understood why. Because the two of them clammed up, and denied any wrong doing. And the only other person who would know, was Asunta.

the fact remains though, the odds of anyone else drugging her, with 27 tablets that the parents co incidentally had, is non existent. As is anyone else drugging her for 3 months, or someone breaking in and trying to strangle her, is fairly low odds as well, I’d guess that was the father and the story was a cover up for the visible bruises on her neck that Asunta stuck to.

its very clear she was abused. By one or both of them, and neglected as well to an extent, left alone a lot. You don’t just suddenly start drugging your kid, then murdering her when you were decent parents before hand .

So for my money she was an abused neglected child who was ultimately murdered by her parents and they covered it up and protected each other as much as possible.

What a pair of bastards.
It honestly makes you wonder how they passed the adoption process.
I mean, they felt overwhelmed by the perfect daughter. They absolutely wouldn't have managed with a 'normal' teenager.

I think I figured out the motive. Did anyone catch the part where the abusive and controlling dad mentioned Asunta would always bind them. I think the mother drugged the daughter to finally disconnect from the father and realised what she had done when it was too late. The photos of her on the chair were very weird and in appropriate, especially when the mother mentioned in the jail cells next to each other about his dirty imagination. It also explains his comment about hoping she hadn’t been raped. I think the mother may have been drugging her for months to disappear with the man she was having an affair with or the father did it to possibly abuse her whilst she was asleep/drugged. On the last episode now and the pair are guilty. I feel the dad covered for the mum to cover his abuse and also to keep control over her.