My Thoughts on Dateline: Father or Son?

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I believe the son is telling the truth about who killed his mom, Diane Kyne, and that his father, Bill is a master manipulator.

There are too many elements which do not support William Kyne (I could write pages).    The most troubling for Bill is that he has collected on insurance claims four times!  He has had four huge crisis in his life. Two deaths of spouses and two fires.

What are the odds?

Bill wants us to believe he has had 1 in a million odds four times.

Right!

Not only did William’s first wife go outside in the middle of the night by a pool and supposedly trip and fall, and Bill collected $250K on her life insurance policy.  But Bill also had two insurance fires.  Wow.

Bill had an insurance policy that paid out when his automotive business burned down and yet another on an investment property fire.

And now his second wife gets killed, and he has another insurance policy payout totaling $750,000.

Are you kidding me?

Then add to the fact that Bill doesn’t check on his wife and the police find her body within minutes cold when they arrived.

Furthermore, Bill’s DNA was found on his wife’s neck after  her death which was ruled a strangulation, and not Kevin’s. I don’t care if Bill was married to her, if Kevin strangled her, his DNA should have been there!

It’s also interesting that Bill says he went to his attorney and had Kevin legally evicted. Not his mother (though she may have capitulated). Kevin’s mom eventually let him back home.

And the reason Bill says Kevin killed was, according to Bill is “because he was being kicked out of the house and wanted his own way.”

Does that make any sense?

If he wanted to kill the person who was kicking him out, it was actually Bill who went to the attorney, wasn’t it? Yes, his mom capitulated, but Bill is the one who went the attorney.

Kevin had a head injury and I don’t know if has affected him, but right now, I see someone who may have symptoms of Asperger’s Syndrome. It makes me curious if his responses are muted due to his head injury or possibly Aspergers.  People with Aspergers have difficulty when being interviewed in criminal situations.

I think Bill saw Kevin as the perfect scapegoat, and I wouldn’t put it past him to set Kevin up.  He is perfectly capable, if you ask me. I don’t trust Bill whatsoever.

I could write pages and pages on this case!

Amanda Knox Speaks Out

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The first words out of my mouth after hearing Amanda Knox speak are “WOW”.

I am utterly stunned at her responses, but Amanda has not fit the part that she has portrayed from day one, and this is just another instance.

Imagine you were wrongly accused, locked up for several years, supposedly hit by authorities, had to endure multiple trials of all lies, and finally, you were set free.

Would you feel “gratitude” after having to suffer for years and be looked at as a murderer due to an atrocious foreign injustice??

I don’t think so.

I watched Amanda and looked for any signs of pain for all the injustices she supposedly endured, and there are none. She didn’t have it when she first arrived home from her Italian prison, either. It was oddly and always missing.

Amanda only stressed when she tried to get people to believe her.

Amanda is so relieved, so free of any pain to support that she suffered the injustices she wants us to believe.

If Amanda was guilty, however, her behavior makes total sense.

I can understand “relief” that they finally got it “right” if one were innocent, but we don’t see relief. We see GRATITUDE!

And if you notice her mom is the only one that thinks of the word “right” — not Amanda, oddly. I would think that is the first thing she would think of if she were a victim in this case, but she doesn’t.

Furthermore, when Amanda talks of Meredith, there is no sadness to support her sympathy for Meredith. There are no oblique eyebrows whatsoever. No pain for Meredith at all. She works hard to try to find that place and fails.

And at the end, Amanda says she is the “lucky one”.

How many wrongly accused people have you heard feel they are the “lucky one”?

Its pure insanity!!

But yes, Amanda, you were one of the lucky ones. You were able to walk when I don’t believe you should have…

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Italian Court Overturn’s Knox Conviction

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Amanda Knox got word today she is a free woman as Italy’s highest court overturned her conviction.  There is no doubt she is a happy woman.  The Meredith Kercher family, however, must feel disappointed.

While I think the Italian courts made a mockery of the case with wild speculation and outlandish claims that were not based on evidence, but rather whimsy, I still don’t believe Knox was innocent and uninvolved.    There are so many elements over the years that give me great pause with her and make me not trust her.

I believe she knew a lot more than she ever revealed and still do.

Feel free to click on her name in the tag above to see some of the posts I have written over the years.

If enough people have interest, I can re-summarize why I don’t believe her. Let me know if you are interested below.

I hope Meredith Kercher’s family finds peace.

 

 

 

 

48 Hours: Bruce Beresford-Redman

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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.

“The Jinx”: Robert Durst’s Confession

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This is quite the fascinating clip of Robert Durst (no longer available) talking to himself after taping The Jinx. He forgets to take off his microphone when he goes to the bathroom. Can you imagine the faces of the producers when they go to edit the recording and find this? How I would have loved to been a fly on the wall! To say they were stunned would be an understatement!

This is a golden piece because its almost never that we get to hear a suspected murderer debrief with himself and let out his real thoughts after an interview! And that is exactly what we are hearing. His mind is running through everything that happened and he is having a “wholly shit” moment!

It would be hilarious, if three people hadn’t ended up dead!

Clearly Durst enjoys the cat and mouse game, and outsmarting other people, or he never would have done this interview!

I wish I had HBO so I could have seen this. Unfortunately, I don’t and didn’t see any of this show.

I find the very beginning of this clip the most revealing and damaging when Durst says, “There it is. You’re caught. You are right of course, but you can’t imagine.”

Ouch. I think that speaks volumes of his guilt and involvement.

But in the end when he says, “What the hell did I do?” and he replies, “Killed them all, of course.” Was he flippant or serious? The tone of his voice intrigues me here. Did he kill two out of three? Was someone else involved and hence he doesn’t feel responsible?   I found that statement completely intriguing!

I’d like to watch more of him to see his behaviors to see if I can understand the meaning of that last statement better!

ROBERT DURST’S BLINKING: IS IT A TELL?

Robert Durst blinks a lot in the interviews and some have pointed out that its a sign of his lying. It’s a tell.  But is it really?

The only way to know is to watch Durst talk–when we know he is telling the truth.  When he tells the truth, he shouldn’t do it.

Does he pass this test?   My answer to that question is no.

In this clip of him which is full of him squinting/blinking/shoulder shrugging, Durst says, “I did make mistakes.”   That would be a true statement, correct?

When he says that, watch him.  He does the tic.  Again.  So it doesn’t seem to support this is a tell. It supports that it is a behavioral tic.

I have only seen one person who had this tell in well over a decade of watching people, so be very cautious when you think a behavior like this is a tell. It probably is not.  Blinking occurs for several reasons and you must rule out other reasons before you could ever say this is a clue to deception.