Jeffrey Locker and Kenneth Minor on 48 Hours

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This has to be one of the most bizarre stories I have seen since writing this blog for seven years!  Jeffrey Locker was found stabbed to death in Harlem, and what police uncovered in the search for the killer was bizarre.  Video footage quickly lead them to Kenneth Minor as their suspect and murderer, but Minor’s story was like a twisted nightmare like no other I have ever heard!

Minor claimed that Locker asked him to kill him because he was involved in a ponzi scheme and was in serious financial trouble.  Minor said that Locker wanted to be murdered so his family could collect on his insurance policies.  According to 48 Hours, his insurance policies totaled a staggering twelve million dollars.

When I watched Minor tell his story, I have to admit, I was going back and forth like a ship rocking:  I believe him here, he’s lying here, and then I didn’t know what to think.  I had to absorb everything to make sense of it all.  As with many cases, the truth and lies are often blended together, and I suspect that is the case here.

Clearly, Minor has no remorse for what he did, and would have no problem killing a man for money.  We can see he went out to cash in immediately.  He also hit me as someone who could lie to anyone without worry. I wonder if he is pathological.

In the end, I personally do not believe Minor’s version of events that Locker plunged himself into a knife that Minor held. I think that was a story concocted by Minor to say it was suicide, and only suicide–thinking he could get off.  I believe Minor outright stabbed Locker, but I also believe that Locker did have a plan and wanted to be murdered because of the evidence uncovered by police–specifically the email from Locker’s son and the bizarre behavior of Locker’s wife and kids when the police alerted them about his death.

You can’t write fiction this crazy.  You simply can’t!

48 Hours reported that during Minor’s trial, no one from the Locker’s immediate family came to the trial. The Lockers haven’t done any interviews about this story at all, which I find suspect.  If their beloved Jeffrey was killed by a stranger, without their knowledge, you would think they would want justice and would want to call out a liar, but they don’t.  They keep out of the public eye, and have pursued the insurance money.

How I would love to see Jeffrey’s widow speak about this!!!

48 Hours also mentioned that Jeffrey’s wife is suing one insurance company for $4 million dollars.  The other company that issued $8 million dollar policy refused to release if they paid the Lockers or not.   I suspect by that statement alone that they did pay, and that combined with the fact Mrs. Locker is only suing the company, supports that, too.

Can you imagine allowing your husband to get “murdered” so you can live a rich life? 

How creepy is that?

My Thoughts on Bruce Beresford-Redman

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In this interview, Bruce gives us a lot of inconsistencies when he speaks. I was amazed at how much he revealed in just the intro segment alone.

When Bruce says, “I did not kill my wife. I really didn’t” we actual see a flicker of positive emotion which instantly raises my eyebrows. Not only that, he is shrugging his shoulders and uses the word “really” which stands out to me in his denial. They weaken his denial considerably. He should be emphatic that he did not kill his wife, if he didn’t, but we don’t see a hint of that. Instead we see one contradictory clue after another.

I think this picture says it all. It was taken when he says, “I really didn’t.”  His shoulder is shrugging.

This snapshot of him speaking at this moment shows his lack of confidence without question, and it shows his positive emotion as well.  You can feel him almost pleading, “Do you believe me???”

 
Bruce continues, “At the time of our trip, we were getting along splendidly.”  The word “splendidly” immediately catches my eye.Watch him shrug his shoulders again as he speaks.

I certainly do not believe Bruce at all. I do believe Monica’s sister, without hesitation.

Bruce says,  “The next morning she wasn’t back and now I was really (shoulder shrug) nervous.”  This is interesting on two fronts.  He didn’t get “nervous” until morning?  And why would he get “nervous”?  I would expect worry, concern, or fear, but not nervousness.  But I believe Bruce was nervous that morning, ironically, but for different reasons. Also the word “now” stands out.  Wouldn’t you be distressed after your wife didn’t return after a couple of hours–especially if she didn’t have her cell phone?  Why would he suddenly become nervous in the morning?  Hmmm….

Watch Bruce’s shoulders when he said, “All of the sudden, everything that you know, everything that you love, everything that you care about sort of disappears.”

Every statement Bruce makes (and we’ve only seen less than a minute or two of him talking) leaks clues like a sieve. His last statement above is no exception.  “All of the sudden” stands out to me.  Monica’s disappearance didn’t develop all of the sudden by the account he tells us, which makes his words odd to me.  They stand out.

His story is that she went out shopping and never came back.  Most people would be thinking maybe their loved one got lost, got in trouble, etc and would be frantic trying to see if they could find them and help them.   The situation would develop over a few hours.  It wouldn’t be all of a sudden. But if Bruce killed her, it would be “all of the sudden”. 

I also noticed how he talks about everything he knew and loved suddenly disappeared.  Did you notice that he didn’t say “the woman I loved”?  He seems to be talking about things being gone–since he is in jail!

Bruce also says “sort of” disappear.  How do things “sort of” disappear?

What is the likelihood Monica would disappear out shopping for a day and her body would end up in the sewer on the property of the hotel where she was staying? I would think that would be remote. It’s not impossible, but remote, if you ask me.  I think of Monica being abducted by someone. The abductor isn’t  going to say hey where are you staying–let’s go there so people you are traveling with can identify us and hey, while I’m there, I’m going to dispose of your body.  That’s the last place on earth someone would bring Monica back to.  But if Bruce killed her, it was the most accessible way to dump her body as he didn’t have many options, did he?

As Bruce talks about Monica’s body being found, he says, “I sort of slumped.  I sort of collapsed…..I just…went…… kinda blank.”

Ouch! I don’t think that needs any explanation.

I do not believe a word out of Bruce’s mouth.  In the few short sentences he has said to date, not one has shown any consistency with what he wants us to believe.

My heart goes out to Monica’s family.

Country Club Murders: Ernie Sherer

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48 Hours profiled the murders of married couple Charlene and Ernest Scherer. Their son, Ernie, Jr. was looked at for their murder and was eventually tried and convicted. I believe the jury got it right.

Ernie leaked a lot of clues in the interviews I saw of him on the show. One of the more interesting ones was his head shake when he was asked by investigators, “Did you have any involvement in your parents’ death?” Watch Ernie. The investigator continues, “Did you hire anybody or pay anybody to kill your parents?” Ernie makes another interesting movement with his head, again.

For those of you who have attended my class, here is another example to hone your skills! Did you catch it?

Bruce Beresford-Redman: 48 Hours

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Bruce Redman spoke on out CBS 48 Hours last week.  Did you get a chance to see it?  It was an intriguing interview.

I do not believe Bruce is being honest with us.  He left a wake of clues in what he said. 

What clues did you see?

Eric Naposki on 48 Hours

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Here is a police interrogation audio tape of Eric Naposki after multimillionaire Bill McLaughlin’s murder in December 1994.  Its a 48 Hours extra (if you didn’t see the show, click here).

In this clip, then a murder suspect (now a convicted killer), Eric Naposki, seems to be insinuating that he wasn’t even dating Nanette Johnston, the woman who people believe conspired with Eric to kill McLaughlin.  He calls her an acquaintance and a business partner.

Imagine that.

If you’ve seen 48 Hours, you will know that he has since confessed his love for Nanette. 

Detective Voth, who worked this homicide, said about Eric’s interviews, “He was very evasive.”

Detective Voth remembers Eric wouldn’t give him a straight answer about his relationship with Nanette.  

When it came to owning a gun, Eric again was not forthcoming, either.  He denied he owned a gun, but later confess to owning a .9mm–the same gun that killed McLaughlin. And ironically, Eric would never identify the location of his gun to police.  Hmmm….

In his interview with 48 Hours, Eric was asked, “You never suspected that she [Nanette] and Bill McLaughlin shared an intimate relationship?”  Eric replied, “I never once suspected.”

Yet if you watched the 48 Hours show, at the end, Eric flat out contradicts himself.  He seems to have a track record for that, doesn’t he?   When Eric tries to explain why he had written down McLaughlin’s license plate number (which he gave no explanation for at his trial), he now tells 48 Hours that he wrote it down because, “I wanted her followed to see what she was doing….See I was catching on to her. …I knew something was fishy.”

Yeah right.

Eric truly has no problem stretching the truth whenever it fits him.  He has demonstrated it multiple times in a short period of time.  I can imagine his trial was loaded with a lot more inconsistencies–that’s why he was convicted after only 7 hours of deliberation. I think his sentence was just.

You may have also noticed that Eric leaks micro expression smirks throughout his interview.  It shows his arrogance and it what experts call duper’s delight. Not only does his story not make any sense–neither do his emotions.

This jury got it right, if you want my opinion.