Missing Mollie Tibbetts and Wayne Cheney

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Many of you have seen Wayne Cheney talk to the media about his interview with law enforcement in the case of missing Mollie Tibbetts.

The interview is interesting on many levels. I know it has caught many people’s attention.

Does Wayne Cheney show any indications of involvement in this interview?

Does he send up red flags?

From this interview, I can tell you that you cannot rule him in or out by the interview segments I have seen, and here is why.

Cheney comes across as a unique individual, perhaps someone who doesn’t socialize very much with people. He also has stalking charges in his past. With that, doing an interview with the media may be awkward for him whether he is telling the truth or lying. Hence, his answers in this video could be explained simply by being uncomfortable and not guilty or involved. Then again, they could be uncomfortable because he is involved. It could be both!

If Cheney was a normal guy who was actively social, then yes, his answers would flag me tremendously. But if he is a social recluse, keeping to himself, and rarely interacting with people day-to-day, along with his history of stalking, I can’t put much into his responses.

He clearly self-soothes in this interview but as to why, we need more information to say. If I were working on this case, I would definitely want to do more interviews, though, without question!

If you see more interviews in this case, keep me posted.

Looking at Andreas Lubitz

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You have probably already heard the news of the Germanwings pilot, Andreas Lubitz, who is now being looked at for intentionally slamming the plane he piloted and that carried 150 passengers into the mountain.

Why would a man do this?

A capable man who held a respectable job?

It’s mind-boggling.

Lubitz locked the captain out of the cockpit, experts speculate, and put the plane into a direct descent into the mountain.

When I look at Lubitz in photo (no longer available), I see a man who shows great neutrality in his face. This means he is not one to be emotional or act out emotionally. He was likely neutral in most of his interactions with people and in life.

This attribute can actually contribute to a superior pilot because a person like this isn’t driven by fear, or reacts to fear in the ways most people do, so he will react well under pressure. He and people who are emotionally neutral simply have a different emotional make-up. It can be good or it can be bad. It can have different manifestations.

Someone who is emotionally neutral may experience life on a very even-keel, or they could experience a void–a lack of feeling emotions all together–where they are checked out and removed–apathetic. There can be various reasons for this.  Both would lead to different personalities. I’d need more information to see how it could affect Lubitz.

I also see a gullibility in his face, and perhaps a lack in his sense of self.

When I saw that, it stopped me dead in my tracks. What that could mean caused my heart to stop.

Someone who is gullible could fall under the manipulation of someone sinister, right?

It can’t be ruled out. I am not saying this did or did not happen, but it has to be considered.

Was there some undercurrent in Lubitz life that people are unaware of? I would certainly want to investigate it.

Predators prey on people’s weaknesses.  Psychopaths are notorious for spotting people’s weaknesses instantaneously.

Have we ever thought about testing pilots, in today’s age, for gullibility? I mean we could have an outstanding and technically skilled pilot, but what if in other areas of his life he was unsure and susceptible to outside influence? This is a vulnerability.  I don’t think the prevalence would be high, but it could have some statistically significant where we might not want to ignore it.

I am not saying that is what happened here, but it is a possibility.

What other things can you think of that would have caused this man to drive a plane into a mountain and kill everyone including himself?

We have to assume he underwent regular mental health check-ups that would spot obvious signs of mental illness. I wonder when his last mental health check was?

Feel free to discuss this below.  This blog is about understanding human behavior and deception, which appears to be very applicable to this sad story.

“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.

Expression of the Day

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Reading the news this morning, I came across the story of  little Etan Kalil Patz who disappeared from lower Manhattan in 1979.

Apparently this man, Pedro Hernandez, was interviewed by police in 2012 and confessed to killing Etan.

The courts will determine this week  if Pedro Hernandez‘s statements are admissible in this case.

Statistically speaking, 25% of confessions made by people are false, so just because someone confesses, it does not  automatically mean they are one responsible for committing the crime.

When I saw this news story and I looked at this suspect shown in the article, his facial expression stopped me dead in my tracks.  Hernandez’s expression here is extremely threatening. If I saw him on the street, I would immediately look away and take actions to get as far away from him as I could. I would try to become invisible in the shortest amount of time.

What expression is Hernandez making here?  I will share my answer in my comments below (on the blog for those of you reading this elsewhere).

Fred and Leslie Mueller

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Did you catch CBS 48 Hours this week?  It was the story of Fred and (Dr.) Leslie Mueller.  According to Fred, he and Leslie went to a hike by their house in the mountains of Colorado, but she inadvertently fell off a cliff into a river and drowned.

Fred Mueller has sat through two trials for the murder of his wife, and both juries hung.  Ouch!  The first jury was 1-11 to acquit.  The second jury was 4-8–nearly there for a conviction.  Will there be a third trial?  Prosecutors have only 90 days to decide.

This is a true mystery.  What happened to Dr. Mueller?

I personally find no reason to believe Fred Mueller’s story.

48 Hours quoted Fred as saying about his wife as she fell backwards off a cliff, “”… And she did a swan dive, just like head and shoulders and just slides like mush into the channel …”

That statement is so hot, it could boil, for one.  Who talks of the horror of seeing a loved one falling backwards as a “swan dive”?  Who would refer to a loved one as “mush”? Absolutely absurd.

Second, Fred had scratch marks on his face that are not consistent with bushes, which was one explanation he offered.  The second explanation was that it was self-mutilation, which makes no sense if you ask me.

And his wife, who allegedly tumbled down a cliff and landed on a huge rock slab did not have injuries consistent with her fall. And then after landing on the slab, she immediately drifted off and down the river before Fred could get to her. Yes, all he could do was call out her name, as if that would do what?  I don’t know.

Furthermore, Fred never seemed to try to find Leslie as she went downstream (which some  experts say is not possible for her body to have done) nor did he go to her aid, which I find perplexing. Instead he supposedly just ran for help, when seconds matter. And of course, someone else found her.

I wish I could believe Fred, but sadly I do not.