Adam Baker Arrested for Bad Checks

Adam Baker, the father of missing Zahra Baker, was arrested this morning on five counts of writing bad checks and three counts for failure to appear in court. Baker is being held on a $7,000 bond. Zahra’s step-mom has also been arrested on unrelated charges to her disappearance, though police believe the likelihood that Zahra is alive to be slim. No one in little Zahra’s neighborhood had seen Zahra in the weeks prior to her disappearance. Family members are also speaking out that they witnessed Zahra being treated poorly. She wore a prosthetic leg and hearing aids due to cancer, and Zahra’s step mom, Elisa, used to yell at her for not walking fast enough.

Fox News reported that Adam Baker said about his missing daughter when he called 911, “My daughter, I think, is coming into puberty… so we only see her when she comes out and wants something.”

He thinks she is coming into puberty? As if that is an excuse! I believe Adam Baker knows what happened to his little girl and police must now be suspicious, too, because they have locked him up with the bad checks, like this did his wife, until they can find more evidence.

You can read my original opinions of Adam Baker several weeks back here.

Tifffany Speaks from Colorado

Tiffany’s thinking is strange here. She says, “After everything happened was our day that we were going to come back, and the hardest part of all of it, is just leaving without him. And I’d rather him be next to me and be with me than having to all of this by myself.”

She doesn’t show normal thinking patterns. She talks oddly, doesn’t she?

This woman is “off” no matter how you slice it. I do not believe she has done one interview where she didn’t have numerous hot spots. I’d like to see this entire interview. If anyone sees it, let me know.

To read my original thoughts on Tiffany, click here.

Diena Remembers Year Anniversary

Seeker found a video of Diena Thompson that is absolutely mind-blowing to me.

In the video link below (click on the picture to to go News13’s video), when you watch Diena, it is flat out flabbergasting. Here is a mom, recounting the day her daughter vanished (and was later found murdered), and all we see is radiance.

What makes this woman feel so radiant when recalling what is should be hands-down the most horrific day in her life? I hate to say it, but she has an eerie reminiscence to Diane Downs here.

Diena says, “All the people, all the cops, all the lights, cameras, it feels just like that day again, only this time I knew it was going to happen, and I still couldn’t stop it.”

Still couldn’t stop it?” What???? Does that even make sense?

Where is this mother’s grief? It’s flat out missing!

Things are very troubling with this case and it continues to haunt me. To read my original thoughts on Diena, click here.

News13.com story here.

Tiffany Hartley Wants DNA?

Look at how Tiffany Hartley responds when Andersen Cooper asks her how she’s been holding up. She can’t even conceal her smile. She says, “It’s hard because I just want my husband back. That’s all that I want.” As Tiffany says that is all that I want, she shakes her head no, ironically. Her facial expressions, body language and emotions are not matching her words at all. She is extremely inconsistent.

Tiffany Hartley talks about being afraid of being arrested again and this time she says it was because originally the Mexican authorities didn’t believe her story. But now she says she doesn’t fear that.

I can’t believe that Tiffany would talk about getting DNA. That has to be the strangest thing ever. Would DNA give Tiffany peace? Or would it help her in her mind prove her innocence?

Tiffany can’t get enough of the media spotlight. That’s for sure. I feel for David’s family.

Diena Thompson Vows to Attend Trial

Another Interview here

The story of Somer Thompson is a sad one. She was a little seven-year old girl who disappeared on October 19, 2009, in Florida, and was found several days later in a Georgia landfill. Her mother, Diena Thompson, made several pleas for her daughter before and after she was found, and in an irony, leaked a lot of smiles just like Tiffany Hartley does. Yet police arrested a young man, Jarred Harrell, 158 days after Somer disappeared for her murder. They searched his house days after the murder. Then four months later, he was their man. We are now waiting for the trial to begin.

Read moreThis case has fascinated me from day one. Something is amiss, but until all the facts come out, I don’t know that we will know what it is. I do not trust Diena Thompson.

I can tell you that just like Tiffany Hartley, I have not seen one interview with Diena where she comes across as consistent, and both of these woman have done dozens and dozens and dozens of interviews. How can that be, if they are telling us what they know is true?

In this video, when they first show Diena talking about Harrell being a monster, you can’t miss the glowing joy that she is feeling. One could almost use the word “euphoric” to describe her and we’ve seen this emotion from Diena before.

What monster who killed your daughter is going to make you glow like that? What would make her glowing make sense?

When Matt Lauer talks to Diena, she is truly hurting here. It’s noteworthy for me because while we did see small glimpses of it over the past year from Diena, we didn’t see it to this degree.

Was she in shock before, and it wore off? Did Diena show signs of shock in the first few days and months of her interview? I don’t recall seeing her shock, but I am not an expert on shock.

When Diena talks about the one year anniversary vigil to remember and celebrate Somer’s life, she is truly feeling authentic pain. This has been a very rare expression for Diena. I can’t help but question: What has changed? What has she comes to grips with over this past year, if she wasn’t in shock and denial, that is causing her so much pain now?

Matt Lauer asks Diena if it is the best thing for her to attend the death penalty trial, and we see the first of Diena Thompson’s smirks again, but it quickly fades as she gets real again. She says, “I feel like it is, you know. I still feel guilty for what happened to Somer, and so I want her to know that I’ll always be there for her no matter what the…”

Matt Lauer asks an excellent question about Diena feeling guilty. He says, “You did talk to your daughter about stranger danger [Diena nods her head yes], but you feel that there is more you could have done. What did you say and what do you wish you’d had said?”

Diena speaks truly from the heart here, which is so notably to me and what she says has significance to me. She says, “I don’t think it is so much what we say. Of course we should tell our kids not to talk to strangers, but at the same time, if I were to invite you to my house, and I introduce you to them, to them in their little minds, their young minds, you’re no longer a stranger. That doesn’t mean your a safe person and we need to stop just telling our children things and teaching them, if you have a bad feeling, run the other way, if someone tries to snatch you, you kick scream, punch, bite, I don’t….”

This stands out to me. Diena seems more focused on people we invite into our house rather than the stranger down the street, like the one who allegedly killed Somer.

Diena truly doesn’t want this to happen to anyone else. She makes this very clear for the first time. But she says something really odd, she says she couldn’t afford the expenses after her “baby passed away.”

Passed away? Poor little Somer was murdered by a ruthless murderer, if the police have the right suspect. Why isn’t she angry about that?

When the trial in this case happens, I will be glued to all the news reports. I want to see what the evidence is in this case. Somewhere, somehow the pieces, if they are correctly identified in this mystery, will make everything make sense. If we fail to get to the truth, however, things will never add up.

Thanks to Karon for the video lead.