Maybe a motive for his slaughtering her will come out at sentencing?
"Hennepin County District Judge Robert A. Blaeser accepted the plea, ordered a pre-sentencing investigation and a psychological evaluation."
http://www.twincities.com/allhea...ines/
ci_9454718
What a sad day for all of the family and friends involved. For me, this case goes to show that sometimes the police actually know what they're doing when they withhold evidence from the public. Early on, I jumped to the (wrong) conclusion that there was a random killer on the loose in my city.
.../Dianne
thanx for posting this - I have wondered whatever happened re: this case -
That was a tough round of comments back then. I thought the same way you did Steve and even made efforts in my own mind to reconsider my thoughts about Matt after reading his friends' comments, but it made too much sense that he was responsible and not enough sense that someone else would have been motivated. He's an odd bird, that's for sure.
Wow. This news brought tears to my eyes.
At the time of the post, almost a year ago, I was checking this site every day to read whatever Steve was writing, and when this post came up, it automatically started Kira's video. I will never forget her voice, and reading this news today was...I don't know.
Because, most of us of course knew that Matt had murdered Kira. Did I "legally" know? Of course not. I was one of the "arm-chair" detectives that vociferously defended Kira's rights as a victim within Steve's comment section and for whatever reason, felt compelled to check the comments every day to make sure that nobody believed Matt's flimsy denial.
But, this news doesn't give me any great sense of glee...I actually still feel great sadness. What a terrible, terrible event to have happened. These crimes never fail to break my heart.
Regarding Emerson | 06.02.08 - 10:55 pm
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That was rough wasn't it?
Oh yeah SuziQ! That was one of those dog fights that is never fun because the friends and family are doing what comes naturally and cannot see from the outside regardless of evidence and commonsense. I remember feeling badly for his friends who were defending him, especially those who loved Kira as well, becuase they were bound to be gut punched in the end. I hate these senseless crimes between husbands and wives that shatter families.
Emerson, There was certainly no satisfaction in knowing I was right and they were wrong. Matt had some extremely loyal and loving friends out there. I bet Matt doesn't even realize or care how lucky he was to have had friends like that.
http://www.startribune.com/
local..._refer=Homepage
Man admits to killing his wife and says he doesn't know why
Matthew Gretz had publicly mourned his wife, art student Kira Simonian. On Monday, he pled guilty to her violent slaying.
(more at link)
When I think about why Matt might have killed Kira, I can only guess that Kira was the strong one of the two of them. I suspect that she was the one who was outspoken and daring--said what she thought to anyone -- and while Matt liked that about her and that is what might have initially attracted him to her, I think he secretly built a resentment towards Kira for the same reason over time.
If Matt made the statement that Steve mentioned in last year's post, it fits with this as well. He felt inferior towards Kira, and he resented her independent mind, strong will and outspoken ways.
Steve quoted a person named Matt as saying "Chances are, Kira doesn’t like you. You see, she’s a picky bird, one who doesn’t fawn over the latest reality shows or kowtow to the powers that be. No, she’s an *artist*. So she’s allowed to wear as much black as she wants and criticize stuff that sucks. If it wasn’t for Kira, pathetic losers wouldn’t realize their lot in life and those of us lucky enough to serve as her muse are able to live a much more rewarding life…"
It's so haunting...like he had been thinking about this for many months. I don't think this was meant to be humorous.
And if he was heard saying "Do you love me?" at the time of the murder, it supports it as well.
That morning, Kira may have made a strong remark about something to Matt, or about Matt, which finally set off all the hostility that built up in Matt over the years, and he finally blew.
Just my 2 cents.
My heart goes out to Kira and Matt's families.
Anonymous, I think you're dead on the mark. My perception? Matt had a complete passive-aggressive meltdown. And yes, those can be fatal for someone caught in the blast wave.
Thanks Steve & Eyes For Lies for the update. It definately looked that way at the beginning, I'm glad he has admitted it so justice can be served.
RIP Kira
Oops. I didn't realize I posted anonymously above. Sorry. It's me, Eyes for Lies 
I am pleased he has admitted his guilt. By doing so he allows the living a degree of closure.
But then again I guess I'll just never, ever understand why, if you decide you do not love someone anymore, you don't just leave.....
Eyes and Steve - I wholeheartedly agree with your theory.
And it is much too bad that anymore, it seems like there are too, too many "I just snapped" murder situations, and murder-suicide situations, and there are too many people going through life without the coping skills needed to walk away from a non-working relationship before it gets to such a volatile "do you love me" stage...
Supporting the passive aggressive meltdown idea is the fact that according to the family, Kira was supposed to go on that trip to NYC with Matt but bailed to nurse her sick cat. Think they had a full weekend in NYC planned, and her choosing to attend to her fluish cat over QT with him may have been the final straw: initially he likedly assented while the feeling of intimate rejection boiled.
I figured this would be the outcome, eventually. This story made me so sad when I read the original post here last year. RIP, Kira.
In re: his having a passive-aggressive meltdown, I totally agree that's what likely happened. I had a good friend several years ago who was leaving her partner after a 3 year relationship. He had always been very quiet and meek-seeming, they never really fought, he was just sort of "there" for the most part. Well, one night at the end as she was packing her things, he blew up out of nowhere and went totally nuts. He threw things around, screaming and raging--I was there and witnessed this happen. My friend and I were in total shock. We were actually afraid for our well-being because he was so out of control, and we almost called the police, but he left the house and we didn't have to. Neither of us would EVER have expected anything like that from a person who seemed so quiet and calm. It was incredibly disturbing, and really frightening.
Gretz gets 25 years for murdering art student wife
http://kstp.com/article/stories/...157.shtml?
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This is all very sad what has happened here. I am completely dumbfounded by the fact that one can beat, strangle, and stab their wife where they only receive 25 years. Kira must be rolling in her grave. Doesn't seem quite fair especially when you hear about everything that happened.Hearing the evidence and what happened makes me believe this was more premeditated.
It makes me sick to read that is all that Matt got. 25 years isn't really the same as losing your life.
Here's my thought on what went down: I think Matt was looking for a way to earn more money. I don't think he snapped.This is seriously a case where I think this guy knew absolutely what he was doing. He knew he killed her and he also planned on covering it up. I think he beat,stabbed and strangled his wife and left the apartment wide open in hopes that someone would unintentionally mess up that apt-crap up the crime scene. I don't think that not going to NYC is why Matt snapped.
http://www.kstp.com/kstpImages/
G...tzcomplaint.pdf
I think this all was very planned by Matt. Over the past year with all the evidence I read, she really tried to fight him off after being struck. I think she even tried to get out of that apt., but somehow he won. I so wish the outcome would have been different. I am so angry that someone like Matt did this to someone like Kira.Kira had so much going for her, and Matt ruined that.
On mydeathspace.com, many mention why do this, why not just leave or divorce someone. When I see this sentence I realize Matt was hoping for something more out of this. He obviously got something out of all of this. I truly hope Kira's family can go on, and continue to stay strong even though they have been through such a horrible tragedy.
I hope Kira's work continues to be seen by everyone that way she can live on in her work.
SUSIE - on the knox/kercher thread I was spouting about the arrogant attitude that mellas had compared to other threads that friends defended the suspect. this is the case I had in mind cuz I believe matts friends really, really just could not believe matt would do this - their posts were really sad/shocked compared to mellas - hope you understand what I am trying to say -
I wonder if the posts from "Matt's friends" were really from Matt?
Some of those posts seem like they were such a cover up.
Just a thought.
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