Former Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax - murder/suicide?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really irritated by all the social media posts I'm seeing blaming the rape victims for this as though 1) they weren't actually telling the truth and 2) that somehow explains murder.

+1. The story goes that Justin Fairfax was so despondent over these “false allegations” that he “spiraled into mental illness” and then just had to kill the mother of his children. PUHLEESE. Murder suicide is not about mental illness, it’s about control. If I can’t have it, you can’t either.

Now that the 48 hours is up, let’s just say I had the ick on this guy and I feel vindicated. The way he made it absolutely clear that he felt entitled to the governorship after Northam’s blackface scandal came out as a matter of racial justice, all the while knowing he had multiple and more recent gender violence skeletons in his own closet, just struck me as so cynical and gross. This guy amplified Republican crap, lead the pile on, and went after an objectively decent man who was doing good for Virginians because it served his own ambitions.

Not to excuse what Northam did one bit, but the 80s in the South was a different time. The consensus on blackface being unequivocally bad is a relatively recent cultural development. He was caught flat footed and rightfully paid the price.

But we all knew rape and assault were bad in the 2000s.

Both men saw the end of their political careers, but Northam at least had a legacy of distinguished service to marginalized populations that he could fall back on. Fairfax apparently was a miserable, lying drunk whose own wife installed cameras in her home to protect herself.

It’s not like law firms shy away from aggressive lawyers with checkered pasts - people saw through this guy. All of his charm just hid the fact he was a narcissist who served no one it himself, and when people started to see that, he was cooked. Look at all the “friends” who wanted nothing to do with him after the scandal came out. Everyone suspected it was true.

All of this. He was a cowardly, rapey, murdering piece of sh*t. The mod of this site and other outlets are making up any and every excuse they can come up with because they too are tribal pieces of sh*t that will protect POC and Dems at all cost, even if that includes throwing women to their death.

+1 it’s gross.

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It is gross, but it’s 100% aligned with the current anti-woman bent of the Democrats. Just par for the course at this point.

Say the thugs who repeatedly bend over for a man who raped children and bragged about molesting beauty queens. Hit me again with your maternal deaths. Your bogus Bible literalism.

I’m a Democrat. And nobody said the Republicans were any better. You are just grasping for that immediately because you know it’s true the Democrats have enthusiastically leaned into misogyny. I mean, in this thread of all threads, you are going to reach for your talismanic prayer to Trump? You are proving the point.

What are you even talking about? And yeah right about being a Dem. You GOP thugs are salivating at the thought that it was a black Democrat who annihilated his family this time, and not another white conservative male with an arsenal.

And violently anti gun. Don’t forget that. We won’t

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The WaPo article about Justin Fairfax’s downward spiral is horrifying. His poor wife. I hope Eric Swalwell’s wife remains safe.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what Fairfax childhood was like? He seemed like he just was totally incapable of dealing with any set back—-if he wasn’t on a rocket ship to success, he was just going to spiral into animosity and aggression. Another person might have picked up and found a low profile way to at least put bread on the table but clearly he couldn’t stoop to that. I’m just wondering what kind of a background he came from (before Duke).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Fairfax

He graduated from DeMatha where he was Class President.

I suspect the alcoholism contributed to his spiral. Alcohol is a known depressant.

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Anonymous wrote:There are some real ogres on this thread.

Mrs. Fairfax is the victim. She likely was trying to do what was best for the kids. So sad.

Remember, at one time she loved him--maybe, she still did. Just proves that if a smart, educated woman cannot figure this out, how can those with fewer advantages?

Yes we know she was the victim. That is totally clear. And maybe this was the inevitable outcome no matter what she did. But I think it is really important for women to know that bad situations can get worse and nothing is worth staying with a spiraling or unstable man. Do what you can to get out even if it means living in a small apartment, your kids switching schools, whatever. Call a lawyer with DV experience and figure it out.

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Anonymous wrote:The WaPo article about Justin Fairfax’s downward spiral is horrifying. His poor wife. I hope Eric Swalwell’s wife remains safe.

Can you share a gift link?

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Anonymous wrote:The WaPo article about Justin Fairfax’s downward spiral is horrifying. His poor wife. I hope Eric Swalwell’s wife remains safe.

Can you share a gift link?

https://wapo.st/4cxnAyf

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Some important info in this Washingtonian interview with American University professor Rachel Louise Snyder, the author of the 2019 book No Visible Bruises
https://washingtonian.com/2026/04/17/cerina-fairfaxs-murder-fits-a-terrifying-pattern/

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Anonymous wrote:The WaPo article about Justin Fairfax’s downward spiral is horrifying. His poor wife. I hope Eric Swalwell’s wife remains safe.

Can you share a gift link?

Here you go.

https://wapo.st/4cxnAyf

Interesting bit about former Gov McDonnell.

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Anonymous wrote:Could there be processes that get guns temporarily confiscated during family law proceedings if there has been red flag behaviors like alcoholism and fights? Just getting rid of the easy access might help in situations like this.

Virginia has red flag laws. But someone has to feel comfortable making the report without fear of retaliation. The person responsible for half your kids' tuition and the mortgage - you comfortable reporting on them?

She was a dentist, FFS. Of course she could afford to walk away, rent a small apartment, either cover kids' tuition by herself or put them into public school for a period of divorce. This is really bothers me - according to the article, she knew he purchased the gun in 2022. She knew for at least several months he was heavy drinker. She knew that he does not value human lives. Why was she staying in the same house with him?

She can't force him to leave their jointly owned house. She eventually had to get a court order to force him to leave the house, and he literally murdered her days later.

My guess why she didn't leave -- he has no money. He makes little and spends everything. He would have let the house go into foreclosure and would have been homeless. It's an incredibly uncomfortable and difficult situation.

And while she likely makes good money as a dentist, it sure sounds like he put their family in dire straits financially. She entered into a post-nuptial agreement whereby they separated finances so that she could protect herself, and he didn't hold up any of his end of the bargain, which is why she initiated divorce and separation. I'd guess they drained everything on legal fees and he accumulated massive debts in both of their names.

Try to be less of an a**hole.

People leave their spouses every single day. She could have moved out with an emergency custody order. I know people who got their spouse booted from the house and supervised visitation based on much, much less. I’m not saying this to criticize her but to correct the impression that people are stuck in the marital house with their abuser.

He was planning to kill her since 2022. She was getting shot one way or another. Unless she truly skipped town to a hiding place he couldn’t find or afford to get to.

I think he was planning on killing himself when he fled to that park.

My exact thought when I read that part was they should’ve left him there

When he fled to that park? What is this referencing?

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what Fairfax childhood was like? He seemed like he just was totally incapable of dealing with any set back—-if he wasn’t on a rocket ship to success, he was just going to spiral into animosity and aggression. Another person might have picked up and found a low profile way to at least put bread on the table but clearly he couldn’t stoop to that. I’m just wondering what kind of a background he came from (before Duke).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Fairfax

He graduated from DeMatha where he was Class President.

I suspect the alcoholism contributed to his spiral. Alcohol is a known depressant.

OMG HE WAS AN ABUSER! that is a choice. He threatened suicide before to get sympathy. He could no longer control or have power over his wife SO HE KILLED HER. Depression has absolutely nothing to do with it. Abusers know how to manipulate everyone into feeling sorry for them and giving them slack for their evil behavior.

These sort of comments come up all the time, but in reality there is no fixed line separating "bad abusers" and "good/normal people suffering from depression." I think it's pretty clear (from her court filings) that he fell into a spiral of deep depression and alcoholism that turned him into a parasitic hermit with no interest in anything other than drinking and smoking. Obviously there were MANY bad choices he made along that road, such as refusing to/failing to get proper help, but the idea that this was all part of some master plan is going too far.

Perfect example of more apologies for a rapist misogynistic, drunk murderer. The left continues to try and soften the narrative. You are alone. The rest of us have our fingers crossed that Justin is burning in hell right now.

I don’t see any apologies in that post.
- not PP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The WaPo article about Justin Fairfax’s downward spiral is horrifying. His poor wife. I hope Eric Swalwell’s wife remains safe.

Can you share a gift link?

Here you go.

https://wapo.st/4cxnAyf

Interesting bit about former Gov McDonnell.

Their kids don’t feel lucky right now, but they’re lucky he didn’t kill them also. Textbook family annihilator.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really irritated by all the social media posts I'm seeing blaming the rape victims for this as though 1) they weren't actually telling the truth and 2) that somehow explains murder.

+1. The story goes that Justin Fairfax was so despondent over these “false allegations” that he “spiraled into mental illness” and then just had to kill the mother of his children. PUHLEESE. Murder suicide is not about mental illness, it’s about control. If I can’t have it, you can’t either.

Now that the 48 hours is up, let’s just say I had the ick on this guy and I feel vindicated. The way he made it absolutely clear that he felt entitled to the governorship after Northam’s blackface scandal came out as a matter of racial justice, all the while knowing he had multiple and more recent gender violence skeletons in his own closet, just struck me as so cynical and gross. This guy amplified Republican crap, lead the pile on, and went after an objectively decent man who was doing good for Virginians because it served his own ambitions.

Not to excuse what Northam did one bit, but the 80s in the South was a different time. The consensus on blackface being unequivocally bad is a relatively recent cultural development. He was caught flat footed and rightfully paid the price.

But we all knew rape and assault were bad in the 2000s.

Both men saw the end of their political careers, but Northam at least had a legacy of distinguished service to marginalized populations that he could fall back on. Fairfax apparently was a miserable, lying drunk whose own wife installed cameras in her home to protect herself.

It’s not like law firms shy away from aggressive lawyers with checkered pasts - people saw through this guy. All of his charm just hid the fact he was a narcissist who served no one it himself, and when people started to see that, he was cooked. Look at all the “friends” who wanted nothing to do with him after the scandal came out. Everyone suspected it was true.

All of this. He was a cowardly, rapey, murdering piece of sh*t. The mod of this site and other outlets are making up any and every excuse they can come up with because they too are tribal pieces of sh*t that will protect POC and Dems at all cost, even if that includes throwing women to their death.

+1 it’s gross.

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It is gross, but it’s 100% aligned with the current anti-woman bent of the Democrats. Just par for the course at this point.

Say the thugs who repeatedly bend over for a man who raped children and bragged about molesting beauty queens. Hit me again with your maternal deaths. Your bogus Bible literalism.

There’s zero credible evidence Trump raped children. There are multiple accusations that Trump walked through a dressing room at a beauty pageant.

I don’t even know what the line about maternal deaths means, it’s so inappropriate to bring Trump up when an innocent woman has been murdered and her children are now without their mother. Can you discuss any topic without bringing up Trump? I seriously doubt some of you can. It’s disturbing, please try to focus and please stop bringing your personal obsession with Trump into every topic.

Because I’d think people who bow down before Epstein’s bestie like beta simps wouldn’t be calling Democrats (who have largely come out against Fairfax, btw) of being anti-woman, while putting in Stone Age superstition into law that actually kills women.

Kinda late for that now dontcha think?

I don’t think 2019 was too late.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are some real ogres on this thread.

Mrs. Fairfax is the victim. She likely was trying to do what was best for the kids. So sad.

Remember, at one time she loved him--maybe, she still did. Just proves that if a smart, educated woman cannot figure this out, how can those with fewer advantages?

Yes we know she was the victim. That is totally clear. And maybe this was the inevitable outcome no matter what she did. But I think it is really important for women to know that bad situations can get worse and nothing is worth staying with a spiraling or unstable man. Do what you can to get out even if it means living in a small apartment, your kids switching schools, whatever. Call a lawyer with DV experience and figure it out.

Stop. There is nothing to “figure out” here. She had a lawyer, she had a court proceeding, and the judge was more focused on giving her husband hype talks as if that man had anything good left to salvage, than protecting her.

There is a reason why women in this situation kidnap their kids and go into hiding - it’s because that is your only option. And for a woman who grew up dirt poor, I’m sure she wanted to do all she could to spare her children from that same fate.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what Fairfax childhood was like? He seemed like he just was totally incapable of dealing with any set back—-if he wasn’t on a rocket ship to success, he was just going to spiral into animosity and aggression. Another person might have picked up and found a low profile way to at least put bread on the table but clearly he couldn’t stoop to that. I’m just wondering what kind of a background he came from (before Duke).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Fairfax

He graduated from DeMatha where he was Class President.

I suspect the alcoholism contributed to his spiral. Alcohol is a known depressant.

OMG HE WAS AN ABUSER! that is a choice. He threatened suicide before to get sympathy. He could no longer control or have power over his wife SO HE KILLED HER. Depression has absolutely nothing to do with it. Abusers know how to manipulate everyone into feeling sorry for them and giving them slack for their evil behavior.

These sort of comments come up all the time, but in reality there is no fixed line separating "bad abusers" and "good/normal people suffering from depression." I think it's pretty clear (from her court filings) that he fell into a spiral of deep depression and alcoholism that turned him into a parasitic hermit with no interest in anything other than drinking and smoking. Obviously there were MANY bad choices he made along that road, such as refusing to/failing to get proper help, but the idea that this was all part of some master plan is going too far.

Perfect example of more apologies for a rapist misogynistic, drunk murderer. The left continues to try and soften the narrative. You are alone. The rest of us have our fingers crossed that Justin is burning in hell right now.

The “left”? No, friend. I am as lefty as they come and I am not supporting this a*hole one bit. This is just more right wing projection because you know you can’t help but support the slime in your party because your preacher ordered you to or something.

The people who are defending him are in denial, either because they were fooled, or on the foolish assumption that they would be somehow different in this situation. But I assure you, the “left” is not standing up for Fairfax. Take that troll ish over to the conservative boards where you bottom feeders dwell.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are some real ogres on this thread.

Mrs. Fairfax is the victim. She likely was trying to do what was best for the kids. So sad.

Remember, at one time she loved him--maybe, she still did. Just proves that if a smart, educated woman cannot figure this out, how can those with fewer advantages?

Yes we know she was the victim. That is totally clear. And maybe this was the inevitable outcome no matter what she did. But I think it is really important for women to know that bad situations can get worse and nothing is worth staying with a spiraling or unstable man. Do what you can to get out even if it means living in a small apartment, your kids switching schools, whatever. Call a lawyer with DV experience and figure it out.

Stop. There is nothing to “figure out” here. She had a lawyer, she had a court proceeding, and the judge was more focused on giving her husband hype talks as if that man had anything good left to salvage, than protecting her.

There is a reason why women in this situation kidnap their kids and go into hiding - it’s because that is your only option. And for a woman who grew up dirt poor, I’m sure she wanted to do all she could to spare her children from that same fate.

She told friends her lawyer advised her she’d risk being found to have abandoned the home if she moved out.