George Zimmerman's girlfriend and mother detail their relationship

[CatWoman]

ORLANDO, FL (WKMG) - George Zimmerman's girlfriend, Samantha Scheibe, described Zimmerman as alone, depressed and fascinated by guns in the days after his acquittal on charges in connection with the death of Trayvon Martin.

Scheibe and her mother, Hope Mason, spoke with our sister station WKMG Local 6 on and off through text messages and phone calls over the past three weeks as they talked about participating in an on camera interview about Scheibe's relationship with Zimmerman.


Scheibe first entered the public eye as the mystery blonde seen in news helicopter video consoling George Zimmerman after that infamous iPad incident with his wife, Shellie.

By the time of that September incident, Shellie had filed for divorce, and George Zimmerman had started dating Scheibe. Zimmerman eventually moved into her home.


By the end of October, Scheibe said she demanded that Zimmerman get professional help for depression. She claims that in response, Zimmerman moved all of her furniture, clothes and food out of her Seminole County home.

http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/345439/19/George-Zimmermans-girlfriend-and-mother-detail-their-relationship

[CatWoman]

1. more

AFTER THE VERDICT

Scheibe says after the jury returned a "not guilty" verdict on all charges stemming from the shooting of Trayvon Martin, George began to change.

When the media fervor surrounding him went away, she and her mother say Zimmerman spiraled into what she calls a very deep depression. She said doctors prescribed medication to help him with the bouts of sadness and despair he was feeling, but he got to a point where he stopped taking it.

She says George would spend days in bed, refusing to get up and refusing to take his medication. She claims the depression got worse.

Scheibe says there was time when she walked into his bedroom, and she saw an empty bottle of sleeping pills on his sidetable. She claims he overdosed. She wasn't able to revive him and watched his breathing.

When he finally did wake up, he started crying and eventually put a gun inside his mouth, telling her he was ready to end it all. She says she talked him out of it.

Scheibe says Zimmerman threatened to take his own life on more than one occasion, and she says the threats seem to come about when he was not one of the news headlines.

She says she believes Zimmerman enjoyed the attention he was getting in the news, while also knowing he wasn't able to carve out a "normal existence" if he was always a headline.

[malaise]

6. You see he knows he murdered Trayvon Martin

You ain't see suffering yet Georgie!! George is going to want to relive that experience!!! He's a walking corpse - good and fuck him!!!

[NightWatcher]

18. will the NRA agree that taking guns away from the mentally ill/unstable is good now?

He sounds like a ticking timebomb.


Another thing, the girlfriend says all this about him.....yet remained his girlfriend. Oh honey, you can do better

[Sheepshank]

23. So, eventually he will have to kill again to ensure longer term headlining. n/t

[dionysus]

2. coocoo for cocoa puffs, george is...

[Aristus]

3. So Zimmerman's depressed, huh?

Cry me a fucking river.

How does he think Trayvon Martin's family feels?

Should have thought of all this before you shot an unarmed teenager in cold blood, you waste of protoplasm!...

[polichick]

4. She was drawn to the criminal until he turned it on her - wonderful.

[Jacoby365]

5. He loves media attention

and wants to be in the headlines. What can go wrong?

[Hoyt]

7. Georgie is "Fascinated by Gunz." There are lots of folks similarly "fascinated by gunz" and a threat

to society. But we are supposed to smile, and say, "it's his 2nd Amendment right until he shoots someone."

[MoonRiver]

12. And even after he shoots someone.

[arthritisR_US]

19. And now they have confiscated his firearms so

he can't hurt himself

[MoonRiver]

26. Yes, it's all about protecting Georgy Porgy, not his innocent victims!

[riverwalker]

8. this is the creepiest part

sending a still image of a sex tape to a child (I think she is about 7 or 8). Even if the image itself was non-sexual, the fact that it came from a sex tape is disgusting.

While there, Mason said Scheibe's daughter received a text message from George Zimmerman. Mason said that message was a still image from an intimate home video of Scheibe and Zimmerman.

"He's now threatened her in writing and even sent a portion of the video to her baby girl," Mason wrote in a text message.

[Raine1967]

9. Did she have a relationship with him that soon after the acquittal?

I know that this might be some what off topic, but the article says "in the days after his acquittal on charges in connection with the death of Trayvon Martin. "

It appears to me that she knew Zimmerman before the acquittal and if so -- she is indeed a character witness to what is going on with him.

I'm not going to throw this woman under any bus. She may very well be the person that prevents this monster from killing again. I'm not ready to assume the worst about her.

[CatWoman]

10. more info at the link

she was friends with both him and Shellie -- before he married Shellie as well.

At least 12 years.

[Raine1967]

11. Thanks Catwoman (sorry, I didn't read the entire article)

This further makes me believe this isn't just some woman who fell for George.

This is interesting.

[MoonRiver]

13. But what does Frank Taffe thinK?

Isn't he the resident Z-man expert?

[giftedgirl77]

14. It sounds like somebody's fishing for some $$

The girlfriends mom had been talking to the news station for months claiming she was going to work out an interview with her daughter & GZ.

I don't think GZ got depressed over killing Treyvon, I think he got depressed when the world stopped giving a shit about him & he realized that he had nowhere to go.

Now all if the sudden we have a maybe baby, a crazy girlfriend, an almost ex-wife & people are talking about him again.

[dmr]

16. Yea, and his "fans" probably stopped sending him money.

How depressing must that be for him.

I wonder how he can afford his truck and it's insurance.

[giftedgirl77]

21. I heard this morning that he is claiming to be

$2 million in debt. Not to mention his celebrity status tanked so quickly after acquittal. I don't think he realized that once everything was said & done he was going to be more of a joke than a hero.

[onethatcares]

22. I wondered the same

as well as how did he pay for the gas to go to Texas, or the motel rooms he had to use.

I'm believing he knows he killed without thought and it's waking him up at night, walking with him every day.

but then again,

I think he's an asshole that needs a gun to compensate for other things.

[Nine]

15. Wow. Thanks for posting this. (nt)

[dmr]

17. The article's been removed from the website.

I get a page not found.

[CatWoman]

20. Daily Mail running similar story

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2510648/George-Zimmermans-estranged-girlfriend-Samantha-Scheibe-says-hes-depressed-volatile.html

[dmr]

24. Moved her furniture out?

How the hell can he afford to do that? Or find friends to do it for him? And, why would he do that? Where did he store it all?

How stupid is this?

Damn, I feel like I need a restraining order from him.

Thanks for finding another link, CW.

[CatWoman]

25. ....

ballsy SOB, isn't he?

[Skidmore]

27. That's the part of the story that is jarring for me.

This home was by all indications was Schiebe's and not his. Why does no one seem to think that it is beyond weird that he would be literally commandeering her home and her possessions?