Clint Heichel Speaks Out
When we look at the scientific measurement of sadness, oblique eyebrows, we see them in Jonathan Holt who has been arrested, but I do not see them in Clint Heichel. I would think he would be sad right now. Why isn’t he?
Please know that I do not doubt that Holt killed Whitney.
I saw an immense amount of pain. I think he’s in shock, thus the “flat” sound of his voice.
Even if he is drugged there is still something really hinky about him. He says “she was just a beautiful little person”…WHAT? Who would call their recently murdered wife a PERSON (gender neutral), seems to me he’d be all about MY WIFE (not a PERSON).
There has been more than one funeral I had to attend and i WAS drugged out to the max on anti anxiety meds and you could still see sadness in my face.
m.o.o.
I keep wondering, why doesn’t he face the camera? I don’t see grief, but I do see flashes of anger, when he asks. “Why?” There are a number of phases to grief, and one of them is anger. If he is not involved in her murder in any way, he may be in shock and going into a period of anger.
I dunno, I look at him and he has somewhat puffy undereye area anyway but it is very pronounced the last few days as if he is doing a lot of crying when he’s by himself. I don’t know yet but will wait to see if anything else comes about.
I wish Clinton could say her name. Whitney.
When my dog was put down, I couldn’t say her name for weeks. It would be nice for him to say it, but it’s not hard for me to see why he wouldn’t.
I was 21 when my boyfriend died suddenly in a car accident on the freeway. For the next week, I was in shock, lost 15 lbs in 5 days, flew out of state for the funeral, smiled through that and other memorial services, rarely cried in public, even laughed with new acquaintances (his hometown friends, family and neighbors). I was forced to go back to work full time a week later, at a busy receptionist job. I’m an EXTREMELY emotional person and yet I pulled all that off.
I agree there might be something hinky about Clint but I see him as a male, an alpha male, in an alpha male religious organization, who has tight control on his emotions. He’s most likely going to fall apart in a few weeks or months, like most people experiencing a sudden death do.
However, I’ve followed Eyes’ blog long enough (at least 3 years) to know that there IS something very real and accurate to her many analyses, so I am curious how this is going to unfold.
I think the husband isn't sad because he's either glad or relieved that his wife is dead or he might just be socially awkward under public scrutiny kind of like the people who smile or laugh when stressed instead of expressing fear, a sense of loss or sadness
>I would think he would be sad right now. Why isn’t he?
Hypothesis/guess here on my part. One of the ways I understand people is doing my best to understand their emotions. One of the many ways I understand emotions are internal versus external. As a pair of examples, for me anger is something that I frequently observe as an external emotion (someone is angry at someone or something else), but for example pain is usually an internal emotion.
My perception of the very short video clip is that Clint’s emotions are mainly externally focused. I’m picking up an incredible amount of anger and frustration in his voice. In my experience sadness is very much an internal emotion. He’s not there at the time this was recorded.
My best guess is that he’s going through the stages of grief, and he’s very early in that process. Sadness will come, and he’ll be best served by those around him in his family and faith community at that time. My perception is that his anger is so strong right now that it’s blocking the internal emotions, and that’s why he’s not showing oblique eyebrows, corner of the mouth turned down, etc and the other normal signs of sadness.
Time will give a more accurate picture of his emotions. It’s frustrating when the video is so short, even a slightly longer video would have given a lot more data.
Russ Conte
Here’s my question to that though: If he’s so full of anger, why isn’t he displaying that emotion?
Even in the pictures of he & his wife together, where his mouth is smiling, he doesn’t have smiling eyes. I wonder – are there some people who just have frozen botox face all the time? The alleged murderer Holt had enough facial expression for both of them, though…. I wonder what that is all about. Is he mentally disturbed, maybe? He looks genuinely miserable for what he’s done. How could you be capable of being appropriately horrified at what you’ve done but still murder someone? Or else maybe he’s sad he was caught and going to jail? Holt looks troubled. The husband looks blank, but again, maybe that’s just how his face works since in even the happy pictures his eyes are pretty blank.
Whatever the cause of his bizarre behavior, laughing and tearless crying, it's concerning.
I see pain in his eyes and can tell he has cried in silence alone.
His eyes are so puffy on the outside and he did cried the first hour during his first interview.
He is going through what we call survival guilt he blames himself and is probably regretting staying in bed that morning and not walking his wife to her car.
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
This case reminds me a lot of the Somer Thompson case, most particularly the behavior of her mother. I believe that it is still too soon to say for sure that Clint is uninvolved, but I think its fair to raise the question that his behavior seems off because he may be an emotionally shallow/challenged person. As we have seen before not all odd behavior is indicative of guilt, but it does suggest something. Doesn’t mean he is necessarily a bad person, he may have a different way of ‘being’. I know from my own experience with my Aspie son, there are times where his emotional reactions are way off from how I would have expected him to behave.
Love triangle?
When I first read several articles, his words and his varying details led me to suspect he had killed her. His demeanor is strange as are his words. I'm wondering if his language indicates their relationship wasn't going well vs. guilty of crime against her ?
It’s so incredibly easy to judge someone UNLESS you’ve walked in their shoes. I used to be that person; judging others in similar circumstances, thinking I could tell whether someone was really traumatized, heartbroken, etc…….Until my son suffered a massive stroke, almost died and was in the hospital for a month; His immediate prognosis was dire; the doctor suggested we prepare for the worst, that he probably would not make it through the night. I remember being numb, incredibly numb and sometimes I couldn’t even cry; I was told by my sister that I would sometimes break out in laughter at inappropriate times; the worst was when it got back to me that some folks thought I was on drugs, because of my “spaced out” demeanor. That was so hurtful. I don’t know why I reacted the way I did – shock, exhaustion, etc. What I do know now is that you simply cannot tell from a television interview(s) whether or not someone is guilty or was involved. People spoke to me in person, at the hospital, knowing my son was near death and still criticized and judged; how much easier to do so while sitting in your living room watching television, not even knowing a person. My heart goes out to Clint Heichel, his family, his wife’s family and friends.
I suspect you are a newcomer and don’t understand the science behind what we are doing here. That’s okay. You are entitled to your opinion.