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Diena Thompson: Cold Case?

January 25, 2010/2 Comments/in murder/by Eyes for Lies

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When we first see Diena Thompson’s face in this video before the interview beings, she is portraying sadness, but whether or not it is genuine is another thing. Macro expressions are the easiest expression to fake. Then we hear her sniffle, which is suggestive that her sadness is real, and when the interview starts, there is no doubt Diena is emotionally upset here. The redness and glossiness in her eyes confirms it for us. Sadness, however, does support or disprove anything as a mother could accidentally or purposefully kill a child, cover it up and still feel these emotions on and off.

Read moreLook at the glow in Diena’s eyes when she talks about the killer, “You may have hidden this long, but your time is limited.” Diena seems to feel positive emotions when she talks about the killer. I find that absolutely perplexing. I can understand determination, steel-will, but a happiness glow? It makes no sense to me. I have never seen another person talk about finding a killer and getting a glow in their face. It is just unheard of…even with all the determination in the world. Most people bent on catching a killer are dead serious, but Diena is a strange exception.

If we play the turn around the game and consider the worst potential (not saying it is true) that Diena did have something to do with her daughter’s death, could this be duper’s delight?

Meredith Vieria says, “You still don’t even know how your daughter died.” Diena replies calmly, “No ma’am, I don’t.” Diena seems to have no urgent need to know how her daughter died. She seems accepting of it, doesn’t she? I think this is quite unusual.

Watch when Meredith Vieria says, “But how do you handle that as a mom–the not knowing?

Diena says, “That’s probably the worst part.”

Diena’s words and emotions completely contradict themselves when she speaks. She seems to glow with positive emotions, yet tells us this is the “worst part”. I don’t believe Diena here for an instant. It makes me question, does she know how her daughter died? Is this duper’s delight?

Diena continues, “…the scenarios you make up in your mind might be worse than what the actual truth is.” This statement fascinates me! I can’t imagine the actual truth in finding how Somer was killed being better one way over another. She was killed, for Pete sake!

When we talk about dying, we often talk this way, that it would be better to die this way rather than another, but I’ve never heard someone say this about “murder”. Is there a mother out there who would say having her daughter killed one way over another would be better or worse? I think murder in any definition is horrific no matter how it occurs. Diena’s thinking is very strange here, and highly unusual.

Vieria ask Diena, “Do you find yourself looking twice, Diena, at people, always wondering am I staring at this monster and I don’t even realize it?”

Diena replies, “Definitely. Without a doubt. Every time someone stares back at me, I wonder, are they staring back at me because they are the ones, and I don’t know anything about what is going on, so…I don’t want to falsely accuse anyone because that could wreck someone’s life, but…this person needs to be brought to justice.”

When Diena talks, I don’t see any fear, which is highly unusual. Instead, I see slight disgust and an arrogant, almost cocky smile, which is absolutely perplexing. It would make sense that she is disgusted at people gawking at her (speaking negatively about her), but why the arrogant smile? Why doesn’t she fear for her OTHER CHILDREN and her own safety??? Notice she says nothing about being afraid for herself or her children? Fear is what most people would feel in this situation, but it seems to be the farthest emotion from Diena.

Wouldn’t you be panicked and even more panicked if you had other remaining children with a murderer still running free? Yet Diena, instead, talks about falsely accusing people. It sounds like babble to me. Notice how she pauses and how her thoughts change?

Vieria asks Diena, “Does your determination (to catch the killer) ever waiver or does it get even stronger?” Diena replies, “No. It gets stronger because he is going to get caught. He’s going to do something wrong. He’s obviously not a smart person, because if he were, he wouldn’t have done this to begin with.” Diena then says with a smirky smile, “It’s an ‘it'”.

Most people’s confidence would waiver when the police haven’t made an arrest in three months. Why isn’t Diena’s?

Vieria ends the interview saying that someone out there knows something. You would think Diena would jump on that and plead for information, but she doesn’t. She sits there calm, cool and collected like she is fine if this goes on for another five years. There is no urgency in her whatsoever to get this over with, to protect her children, other children, or to stop this madman.

I can only ask: Why?? I think Diena knows more than she is letting on…

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2 replies
  1. Summer Paisley
    Summer Paisley says:
    September 16, 2014 at 12:30 am

    You should really post a follow up on this admitting you were wrong. The real killer fully confessed and is serving a life sentence…he didn’t know the child’s mother at all.

  2. Summer Paisley
    Summer Paisley says:
    September 16, 2014 at 1:30 am

    You should really post a follow up on this admitting you were wrong. The real killer fully confessed and is serving a life sentence…he didn’t know the child’s mother at all.

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