Margaret Rudin

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ABC’s 20/20 featured the story of Ron and Margaret Rudin this past weekend. Did you catch it?

Margaret and Ron were both married five times, and this last marriage ended with Ron being murdered. Ron’s beheaded body was found in an antique chest burned in the desert. Margaret was the last one to see him.

The question, of course, was whodunit.

Margaret has always stood steadfast that she was innocent, but she ended up being convicted, and served 20 years of her life sentence before winning parole a year ago in January.

When you watch Margaret speak, what do you see? Do you see an innocent woman or someone who is denying her dirty deeds?

I always caution people not to assess someone’s truthfulness after they have paid the price for their crime. Why? Because there is no longer any pressure to have to succeed with their lie. Liars leak the most clues when they are under pressure to succeed with the lie, avoid punishment, etc.

Once the stakes are gone, its very easy to say you are innocent without any stress or indicators–there are zero risks and all benefit to do so now! That’s not to say one wouldn’t leak clues, but I have seen guilty people years later come across very honest and innocent when they claimed they were innocent when they were far from it! So be warned.

However, Margaret, in my opinion is only fooling herself here. She thinks she is still so brilliant she can tell you her story and you won’t pick up on the inconsistencies, but oh dear, no. She is wrong.

Did you catch any of her leaks?

Here is one of my favorites: “They stuck the name on me. That ‘black widow, black widow, black widow,’ like I had killed somebody before, or like that I was in the habit,” said Margaret Rudin.

Oh dear, Margaret. You aren’t good at self-censoring, are you? Your interview? It was a train wreck. I did not believe a word.

Scott Falater: My Thoughts

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If you haven’t seen the ABC 20/20 show While He Was Sleeping, you might want to watch it before you read my opinion here.

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Scott Falater comes across as a simple man, who doesn’t seem to carry a lot of emotions. He doesn’t fit an irate, jealous or angry husband–the type who might murder his wife in a fit of rage. However, his lack of emotions may or may not be an indicator that you cannot ignore.

Watching him speak throughout the show, I can’t help but wonder did he just tire of his “dumpy” wife?

Cold calculating people who suffer from anti-social personality and a lack of emotions are the type to do this. Could he be one of them? His flat affect raised an eyebrow to keep an open mind.

On Falater’s sleep walking, as I mentioned I am very familiar with sleep walking. I had dozens of episodes into my teens. But I find his story rang untrue.

Here is why: If you’ve ever witnessed or been a sleepwalker, you know the sleepwalkers sense of reality is off, and their ability to understand their surroundings isn’t normal. They are asleep.

They may get some sense of normalcy for minutes, but it gets changed by the subconscious dream state. It’s like two world’s collide and they aren’t connected. Most people have heard people who had to use the bathroom while sleep walking and peed in strange places (which thankfully I didn’t do!). You get the drift.

Essentially sleepwalkers behavior is less normal, if you will, less “accurate” at what they do because of their altered state. And while it is possible someone could drive a car, or could harm a person, I believe there would be telltale signs of disoriented actions that still support a sleepwalking event.

If Falater was sleepwalking, he might of stuffed his clothes in some odd place–like in a toilet or food pantry or refrigerator, but not in the trunk of his car, which was too perfect. He may have injured or seriously harmed his wife but he wouldn’t come to get her a second time pushing her in the pool.

It is precisely the lack of disoriented actions by Falater that truly make me doubt him. He is too precise. Yes, he missed the blood on his neck and when it is pointed out, he immediately tries to remove it. That doesn’t hit me as dream-oriented. That hit me as guilty behavior.

Think of your own dreams. Your dreams don’t flow in a logical and normal fashion. You get flashes of things that don’t connect, that don’t add up–they flow oddly and weirdly.

But the most telling part for me was at the end of the show, when 20/20 chatted with Falater.

Falater said, “I cannot swear on a stack of bibles…that I was sleepwalking. All I can say is I do not know what happened.”

What????????

Would you EVER say that if you truly had no memory of killing your wife????

Um, no, you wouldn’t. I wouldn’t even think to say that!!!

What you would likely say is something to the effect of I don’t know what happened that night, but I can swear on a stack of bibles I was not consciously awake and knowingly doing this to my wife. I loved her. I’m devastated and will suffer this tragedy a lifetime — or something like that!

No, in my opinion, Scott Falater slipped up and revealed the truth. He was so relaxed he leaked it out. He killed his wife while awake and knows it. He knows he is where he belongs and will not be set free. He is resigned to it for good reason!

Chris Watts Interview: My Thoughts

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Many of you have wondering if Christopher Watts revealed clues that he was deceptive. The answer is yes. If you don’t know, he has sadly confessed to the killing of his wife and their children.

In the beginning of the interview, Chris actually glows when he first starts talking, yet he is putting on a down-tone in his voice and working hard to keep his emotions baseline. You get that deadpan feeling? That’s him manipulating his responses–trying to “act” down when he really isn’t. It’s an epic fail.

You can see him suppress a smile when he is asked what happened. It’s creepy. This is not a man grieving for or worried about his supposed missing wife.

When talking about her not responding to “her people” he talks about “That is what concerned a lot of peoples.” If you notice, it didn’t concern him. Isn’t that interesting? He also makes a disgust expression.

As he talks about coming home, he says, “Nothing. Just vanished. Nothing was here.” This is extreme distancing from his wife and kids. He acts like they are objects, not human beings who went missing. He then corrects and says, “She wasn’t here. The kids weren’t here.”

Interestingly, when he talks about the kids and says their names, you see a slow blink. There is some, albeit slight, emotional response here about the kids that is revealed by this. Does it bother him he killed them? Are their visions that get into his head that cause him to feel some emotion here? I believe the answer is yes, even if it is a minor emotion. With his wife, there is nothing.

When Chris spells Celeste’s name, he has an awkward swallow. It’s making him very uncomfortable and its notable.

As Chris talks about where they could be, he has a glow again. I get that sense he feels he is being believed and is successfully duping the reporter here. It’s very creepy. And it continues as he talks about the girls, and how they would be eating dinner and how he supposedly (not) misses it. He actually breaks out in slight laughter at 3:24. What you are seeing is a man who is loving the fact he is duping the reporter and getting away with his lies and thinks he is being believed.

He laughs again at 3:51.

He says they had an emotional conversation. Yeah, a fight. No doubt. He laughs again at 5:01.

When the reporters question him about what the police or sheriff are saying to you, he shows real indications of being uncomfortable and nervous again, which only helped investigators! He shows doubt throughout this interview as well.

And in the end, he says, as he pleas for his wife, “IF you are out there…” IF??? I love when they say “if”. It’s quite common and a huge reveal.

I personally suspect this man was controlling, angered easily and kept his demons behind closed doors. And something happened, and he snapped.

OJ Simpson’s Lost Confession: Did you see it?

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I must confess that I had no idea this was going to be on or I would have recorded it! But I can say the short clips I have seen of this show had my jaw on the floor.

Simpson says he is talking”hypothetically” as he supposedly recounts the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown.

From the clips I’ve watched, there is nothing hypothetical about it.

Are we seeing a chilling, cold calculating killer bask in the limelight again knowing he is immune from punishment?

Are we seeing the arrogance of a man who believes he can fool still fool people?

Are we seeing a deranged killer who loves toying with people and being the center of attention?

I plan to watch this show in full this weekend to get a clear picture of what is going on here!

I will share some of my thoughts either in another post or in the comment section below!  Check back soon!

What do you think?

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Would you kill for love: Jens Soering on 20/20

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Did you catch ABC’s 20/20 last weekend?  It featured the story of Jens Soering and Elizabeth Haysom, and the murder of Elizabeth’s parents: Derek and Nancy Haysom in 1985.

The two oddly-coupled pair skipped the country after the killings and then confessed when apprehended in England.

Soering later said he didn’t do the killings. He said he stayed back while Elizabeth did it to create an alibi.

I found Soering very arrogant and he showed no signs of being a candidate for a false confession, instead everything he did convinced me he isn’t trustworthy.

These two were truly scary, callous and cold, weren’t they?