I have yet to watch 48 Hours from last weekend, but I have heard and seen that Bruce Beresford-Redman has been convicted of killing his wife Monica in Mexico in 2012. You can watch the show above. If the link doesn’t work, you can click here.
I teach this case in my class and wrote about it on my blog back in 2012 when this case came to light that I did not trust Bruce. Now a jury agrees.
Yet Bruce is still clinging to his innocence. I’m really curious to see if he makes more slips in this show!
You can read my original analysis of Bruce back in 2012 here.
Bruce was convicted on March 12, and given a light sentence of only 12 years.
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Shanesha Taylor claims desperation as the reason she left her kids in the car in Arizona when she went into a job interview. She left two very young children, 2-years and 6 months, in their car seats with the windows cracked only an inch with the keys in the ignition. When the children were rescued, it was already 100 degrees inside the car.
This week prosecutors dropped felony charges, if she attended programs for parenting and substance abuse.
I am troubled by Shanesha’s responses in this interview. The way Shanesha talks about the babysitter and the reason she didn’t have one is hot for me. You can clearly see her speech patterns change, and what I call “thinking-on-her-feet behavior”. She doesn’t appear to be recollecting what actually happened. This is a huge red flag.
I seriously question if she ever had a babysitter.
When Matt Lauer asks Shanesha, “Despite the circumstances, did you act reasonably and responsibly?”
Listen to Shanesha’s response.
She says “That’s a difficult question”.
What??
I can understand she may have made a bad decisions because of stress, but I don’t understand not owning up to it now–especially considering she is getting a second chance!
She doesn’t yet own what she did was dangerous, and furthermore her answer shows no emotional compassion (regret/remorse) that she nearly killed her kids with her poor decision making at a supposed time of “crisis”.
With this response, I am worried for Shanesha’s children. People only make changes when they are willing to own up to their shortcomings and claim the errors that they made. No one is perfect, but given a second chance if she cannot clearly see what she did was the wrong choice, she has a high propensity to make the same decision again, and this next time could cost her children’s lives.
I am also sad that so many people stood up to help her when she shows no remorse or compassion for her children, the danger she put them in, and for her bad judgements.
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A week ago (10 days ago), I ordered a bathing suit online at JcPenneys. They advertised it was on sale $10 off the full price, and since I found a free shipping coupon online, I ordered it. It arrived. I don’t live near a store.
Yesterday I realized that I was going to a dentist near a Penneys, so I decided to go in and look at what they were charging locally. I went in, found the suit, and low and behold the suit was $20 off the regular price.
It’s sad to say that I expected as much.
Read moreOnline they give you one price and at the store, you find another. Some times the store is cheaper, sometimes online is cheaper. You never know which it will be, so I check frequently when I am able to.
I went up to the register with my receipt and I asked for a credit. The woman at the check out counter told me that she couldn’t help me. The catalog business she explained is not the same as the store. I immediately piped up in front of the other waiting customers that this was a deceptive practice!! You should have seen their faces…
I said if you are one store, you should sell the product for the same price across the board. The customer service rep then said to me, “Well, did you get free shipping?” I acknowledged I did and shot right back at her, “Yeah, so does that make it right–charging me for shipping underhandedly?” Everyone around me was tense because I laid my thoughts on the table. People looked away! It always amazes me. The customer service rep told me to go to the catalog department to find out what could be done.
So I trucked on over to the catalog department and said, “I want a credit. This is $10 less than what I paid in the past week or two”. She promptly informed me it was not their policy to price match in the store. I said fine. Ring up this suit here, and I will be back tomorrow and I will bring you the other one so you can give me a credit. I’m not paying ten dollars more for nothing. You’ll just have to do more work– that’s your choice. She told me she would give me a credit, though it was against their policy.
Do you find these practices deceptive? I sure do…
I think as consumers we need to speak out against this and stop it!
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I watched Andrew Young tonight talk about Rielle Hunter and John Edwards. Wow. Just wow. That’s all I can say. Stay tuned for my thoughts next week. I think some of you might be surprised at what I think…
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“We have built an entire economy on lies and deceit, and whenever you build something on something that isn’t true, when it cracks a little, it’s like building a home, or an entire building, on a sinkhole.
You have a foundation, supposedly, but a little crack if something goes wrong, (like) a little earthquake or a tremor, and it starts to open, everything goes falling down, and Oprah that is exactly what happened in the United States of America.”
Well said, Suze! We need to support legislation that changes this so this can’t happen again.
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