Eric Naposki on 48 Hours

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.

Amanda Knox is FREE

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Amanda Knox: Decision Day this Week

Amanda Knox’s appeal will be decided this week–possibly as early as today.  Will Amanda be set free?  It sure looks that way when we listen to the American news media report on this story.  Not being fluent in Italian, I have no idea how things look from their perspective.

This case has taken many twists and turns over the past few years–the biggest of which is the fact that the Italian police bungled their investigation at the crime scene and have been very unreliable in getting information to substantiate people’s involvement–most specifically Amanda Knox and her boy friend, Raffaele Sollecito.

Many people are curious about what I think so I thought I would write an update.  When Amanda first gave the police her story, I immediately called out that I did not trust what she said to be true.

Back in November, 2007, Amanda Knox told police, “Patrick and Meredith were in Meredith’s room while I stayed in the kitchen. I can’t remember how long they were together in the room, but I can only say that at a certain point I heard Meredith screaming and I was scared so I covered my ears. After that, I don’t remember everything, my head is very confused.”

Which in response to the comment above, I wrote, “Several papers have printed a statement made by Knox to police, and if this statement is true, I find it quite interesting and telling that perhaps Ms. Knox is not being forthright with us….”  I conclude after giving my analysis, “…a strong indication of deception. I don’t believe Knox is being honest with us ” You can read my original thoughts and analysis of Amanda Knox statement here (from 2007).

Amanda has since retracted that statement (I need to mark this on my track record as another deception called out before the truth was known — I never did!), but she has yet to give us anything viable to hang our hat on. In all of these years, she has yet to make one statement that clearly delineates what she knows is true.  That troubles me.

48 Hours obtained the tape of Amanda describing to an Italian judge what happened to her that night which I believe was recorded in 2008 at Rudy Guede’s trial.  Amanda asked to address the court. It was the one time where she wasn’t translating between Italian and English and where she spoke freely about what she knew that night. Amanda had an entire year to gather her thoughts at this point, too, so I expected something substantial from Amanda, but what she said was anything but substantial.

Not only did Amanda NOT give us a clear memory of what happened that night that supports the truth, she hesitated a lot, self-censored her speech tremendously and stops herself from saying complete thoughts over and over again–which are more strong indicators of deception.

From all we know about this case up to today, I find it very strange that Amanda’s first confession involves her being at the house, with Meredith in her room with a black man. What are the odds that Amanda would make up a story that comes so close to what we do know the Italian police supposedly got right — that Rudy Guede’s, a black man, had his DNA everywhere in Meredith’s room?

The odds of this happening by coincidence are exceptionally rare. While it wasn’t Patrick Lumumba who killed Meredith as Amanda first said, I don’t think many people question that Rudy was there.  It points to the fact Amanda likely has more knowledge about what happened that night than what she is willing to admit.

I also find Amanda’s original statement troubling when she said she heard screams and covered her ears.  No one who hears screams, without knowing the source, would cover them up (end of story)!!  They would run to the source to see if someone accidentally hurt themselves, or they would flee if they felt they were in danger.  At which point Amanda conveniently had no memory.

For Amanda to make this element up that she didn’t know the cause of the scream, but just stood there and covered her ears is ILLOGICAL and nuts because she would have to think illogical when she made up that lie, if she didn’t experience this–and that is ridiculous (and very,very unique!!).  To me, it supports that fact that she was at the house, she did hear screams, BUT SHE KNEW who and possibly what was going on in the bedroom for her not to react. Add to that, she tells us in her first confession, it was a black man — and low and behold another black man was implicated in the murder. That’s pretty substantial for me.

So while Amanda lied in her first statement to police, I believe the truth is scattered in the middle of it and if we pay attention to her words, I believe it does reveal that Amanda had some knowledge of what happened that night.

Was she involved beyond that?  I CANNOT SAY and never have…I don’t have good enough interviews of Amanda to tell you.  Maybe that will change if she gets set free.

I also believe that Amanda was involved in drugs and may have a foggy memory that night as well–which causes her absolutely weird ramblings that make no sense whatsoever.  I suspect she thinks back to that night, has weird dream-like visions of what happened and doesn’t dare share them because they certainly wouldn’t help her case…

Murder Suspect Surveys Crime Scene as Investigators Work

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This is a fascinating video of a murder suspect, who is watching nearby as crime scene investigators do their work at the scene of a double homicide Monday in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  A couple out walking their dogs on Monday morning came across the bodies of two young joggers dead in the park–shot execution style in the head.  The two victims were Ethan Nichols, 21, and his girlfriend, Carissa Horton, 18.

A news reporter happened to interview Darren Price at the scene.  When I watch him talk, I find it interesting how he says, “I think it’s real crazy. I bring my kids out here to play. Got to raise the question, is it safe to even walk around this town with people just dying and stuff? It’s not cool.”

Notice the sanitation of situation by the use of the word “dying”?  Most people who come across a double homicide would not say that people are “dying”, but people who commit violent crimes often try to sanitize what they’ve done as well as try to distance themselves the act.  It’s a lot easier to say “dying” instead of “murder” when you were the one who committed it.

After the crime, Price drove Nichols car to an apartment complex, where police later found it.  They set up surveillance and watched Price get into the car and drive it off.   Fox 23.com reports that Price later confessed. You can read more here.

Elisa Baker Plead Guilty to Second Degree Murder

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Elisa Baker plead guilty to second degree murder for the death and dismemberment of her step-daughter, Zahra Baker, this week. She faces up to 18 years in prison when she is sentenced.

Little Zahra Baker came with her father from Australia to North Carolina. She had a tragic life. At the age of 10, she had already faced cancer, an amputation and hearing loss, and people reported they saw her being treated horribly by her step-mom. 

Police say Elisa’s confessions helped them find Zahra. She told police that Zahra was found unresponsive on September 24, 2010, and while I don’t she believe was simply unresponsive, I suspect the date has some relevance because Zahra had not been seen for sometime. Investigators put a call out to the media to try to confirm that last time someone saw Zahra, and according to ABC news above, no one saw her after September 25, 2010.

Zahra Baker was reported missing on October 9, 2010, yet her father claims to have seen her on the Thursday before –October 7, 2010–which is no where near September 24, 2010. He says to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, “It would’ve been…probably Thursday night and I got up early and went to work…”

Probably???

You can read my entire October 11, 2010 review of Adam Baker here.

It appears from the facts we do have in this case, it is highly unlikely that Zahra was alive on October 7, 2010, and the odds are exceedingly high that Adam was being deceptive.  What do you think? 

It appears Adam will not face any criminal charges related to his daughter as police have no evidence of his or anyone else’s involvement.